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Here are some steps to increase your productivity by improving the speed of your IDE. Here are the tips: Startup improvements: Disable "Start Page". Tools | Options | Environment | Startup, Change ‘At startup setting’ to ‘Show empty environment’. Disable splash screen. Open the properties of Visual Studio 2005 shortcut. Add the parameter /nosplash to [...]

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Sitecore has described how to create media items by yourself on SDN a while ago. Some how this code was broken while uploading JPG-files larger then 100kb. As I’m currently working on the location fo our customer and they’ve got a lot of network overhead(they are using Novell all over the place…) and the exception [...]

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A while ago I needed a Lexer and Yacc for .NET. Looking at the class-structure of Sitecore, I found out it was just another LR parsing algorithm. So I contacted Jakob and his first reply was: Oh man, Alex, you just hit my pet, favorite, geeky interest – compilers. The Sitecore Query language uses a [...]

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This is post 1 out of 4 about one of my new projects. At a local government organization I’m currently working on a new solution which is all about separating and sharing content. I thought this might become interesting as lots of you guys will struggle with similar questions and problems during your projects. So [...]

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Yesterday evening I’ve been involved in the monthly Umbraco chats. It was all about packaging and extensibility yesterday. Being in such a chatsessions, gives you a good sight on the current progress of a project like Umbraco. The chatlog will be published later today on Umbraco.org.In the session, Niels Hartvig and other contributors discussed the possibilities [...]

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Last Tuesday, I mentioned the brand new testing framework xUnit.NET. Today some additional links for those guys who aren’t persuaded yet, colleague fanatics and any other: Test Framework comparison A pretty cool comparison chart of a lot of Frameworks hosted on the Codeplex of xUnit.NET. FAQ: All your questions and answers Brad Wilson takes the [...]

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I’m very fanatic when it comes to test driven development (TDD). Too often people are writing complex applications without testing it proper. It happens to me as well. This has in general 3 reasons: Sometimes I’m just lazy. Laziness is a general developer disease which occurs a lot. No buddy to review my testresults. Your [...]

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I want to pay some special attention to the Publishing Aliases topic on SDN5-Forum. Jennifer Chance, properly a wonderfull lady employed at an unknown Sitecore partner, has asked how she could publish Aliases. By clicking on publish these days, none of the related items will be touched. Of course this approach won’t case any performence issues [...]

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