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Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, General Development (API), Modules, Sitecore, Test Driven Development, Tools on Aug 22nd, 2008
I received a comment on my blog yesterday from Chris Corcino. Chris pointed out that he has a hard time to get started with TDD and BDD with Sitecore. Basically it’s nearly impossible to emulate the ASP.NET HttpContext. And this makes it impossible to do some additional mocking. As Sitecore is really designed around the [...]
My half German, half Australian friend Phil Heltewig has made a cool movie about our new WebForms for Marketeers module:
High Res Hosted Version: http://www.sitecoreaustralia.com.au/webforms/Low Res Youtube Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBGobrOtKY
Well done Aussie!
We’ve sent out this message today after some heavy investigation:
Dear Sitecore Enthusiast,
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On Monday, August 4th, Microsoft released the following service packs: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1.
Sitecore has discovered that these [...]
Posted in .NET, 5.3, 6.0, ASP.NET, Community and the Web, Sitecore on Aug 12th, 2008
This is not official… but we’re investigating some issues with Sitecore and latest service pack. It seems like there’s an issue related to SQL Server.As we’re in progress of testing everything as it might be our internal computer configs. I’m not able to tell you anything except:
There’s an issue related to the access viewer and [...]
Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, Object Orientation, Others, Personal, Programming on Aug 10th, 2008
Often, when I meet developers I get the question, what do you read for literature to remain up-to-date. Or, which references do you use? Cleaning up the mess around my desk today brought me to the moment I had to put my books back together. So here’s my ‘desktop-list’ of 10 august 2008:
Laughing at the [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Others, Personal on Aug 5th, 2008
… Steve Gedikian. You know his name? He worked at Nullsoft, the founders of Winamp. Back in the time when I was playing with my first C# bits, he left Winamp as a program manager. Somehow this guy always impressed me. Look at this blog-post why he leaves Winamp:
Over the past 10 months we’ve lost [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Others on Aug 4th, 2008
I want to share this great lesson from Microsoft’s #1 Project Manager, J.D. Meier, on what he learned from his manager Per in effectiveness. 2 quotes from this great entry:
Next steps? Asking “next steps?” at the end of your meeting is a pretty crisp way of turning talk into action. What’s the agreement? When you’re [...]
Posted in 6.0, Client Development, Improvements, Sitecore on Aug 4th, 2008
My last entry about serializing items and whole databases was kind of more an introduction. Today I’m going to explain in detail what the ribbon buttons do. I’ll finish this series tomorrow by showing how to do this from code.
Serialize Item: This option let’s you serialize the currently selected item to disk. This means [...]
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