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It’s nearly time to wrap up. At the moment I’m finishing a White paper on some SaaS integration and within an hour, I’m going to leave the office for an evening with friends. Up to 2008! Yes 2008… A new year for some great opportunities. There’s so much to explore! 2008 will be the year [...]

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One of the things I personally hate about Sitecore is that the favicon.ico is always included in the standard distributions. At LECTRIC we’ve decided to remove the favicon.ico by default at the start or deployment of a project(although sometimes one or two slip trough). So we’ll never have to answer the customer question why the [...]

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A while ago, I wrote about an American university who is implementing Sitecore. As you can read on their blog and see on their website, are they on the right way! I pretty like the design they’ve used. It does have the serious focus, but it’s never old fashioned like you’re used to when you [...]

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Well some vendors do. Please read the following quote copied from the press release of Tridion v5.3: Modular Templating truly separates the design, code and applications of templates into template building blocks. Together with native integration with market-leading design and development tools, (including Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET), Modular Templating gives designers, developers [...]

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Yes it’s true. Today I found out that I really mess up my laptop with way to much information. Well let’s start over. Since last Friday I’ve been a little ill. Something is going on in my stomage, and really don’t know what it is. So between visiting the toilet, drinking lots of water(seems to [...]

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One of the coolest things with new initiatives such as PLINQ is that they are extremely early adopted by developers to work and test with. On MSDN Forum a lot of interesting discussions started this weekend. When you’re interested in the way Microsoft handles the feedback, take a look at the following topics. And when [...]

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On Kim’s request, I’ve written some additional tests: private void PerformWorkOldFashioned() { using (new SectionTimer("Old fashioned using the foreach and if statement", true)) { foreach (Item item in CurrentItem.Children) { if (item.Appearance.Sortorder > 10) { Response.Write(item.DisplayName + "<br />"); } } } } private void PerformWorkSitecoreQuery() { using (new SectionTimer("Sitecore Query", true)) { Item[] items [...]

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A lot of exiting weeks have passed the way. The introduction of VS2008 on MSDN, Silverlight 1.1 is renamed to 2.0 and… PLINQ appeared! Last friday, Runi spent some time on showing what LINQ can do for you in a Sitecore environment. As it is Runi’s second post in 6 months, so I don’t expect [...]

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