About me
Dec 25th, 2005 by Alex de Groot
My name is Alex de Groot, living in ‘s-Hertogenbosch a wonderfull city in the south of The Netherlands. Started with computers at the age of 10, started working at the age of 14 and started directly after high school with a combination of work and a study.
Today I’m an application director at a content management system vendor.
As said before, I’m finishing a study… One day per week you can find at school: Technical Information Technology . This study is all about the technical part of Information Engineering, Embedded System, Haskell(the ‘CLEAN’ variation), Algorithm, Grafical Displaying, Assembly, Lexical Analyses, Software Architecture, Network technology, etc.
In my spare time you definitelly can find me behind my computer. I once was a online game geek. I’ve worked for 2 years on the game Omerta. These days I’m heavily searching for new web-concepts and staying up-to-date with the latest news.
And.. I definitelly enjoy programming. My preferred languages at the moment are C# and F#. In the past I’ve also been working with languages such as PHP, VbScript, VB6, Perl and Python.
During the last years, I’ve discovered my main interests when it comes to programmig: Language Evolution, Parallelism, Functional programming, Architecture and Deployment strategies.
When I’m not behind my computer, you can find me with my friends. I love to drink a beer in the pub with some friends during the weekends. On a regular weekly evening, just for relaxation, a movie, or a game(non-computer), for example.
That’s it for now! Nice to see you around and I hope you’ll visit my blog again!
- Alex
When is Sitecore going to be developed for .NET 3.0?
Why can’t I use the thing in Firefox as I can in IE? Maybe you guys should stop using Active X and incorporate prototype or mootools.
Hello Sitecore Guru,
Sitecore works excellent with .NET 3.0. The only thing which Sitecore might wanna take advantage of is WCF. So far there was no need to introduce WCF in the used webservices inside Sitecore.
Sitecore doesn’t use any Active X. All applications do work in Firefox, but for example the desktop view doesn’t. This is primairly because of different implementations of Javascript in both IE and Firefox.
Sitecore doesn’t use any Active X.
I can’t look at the source while in sitecore, so I made an assumption… sorry for the mistake.
All applications do work in Firefox, but for example the desktop view doesn’t. This is primairly because of different implementations of Javascript in both IE and Firefox.
As a developer, I only use the desktop view (I have control over everything this way). Also, as a developer, I know that IE has a higher security risk versus firefox. Also, IE doesn’t follow W3C conventions as closely as Firefox. Why hasn’t Sitecore adapted to standards that in place now? I’ve been developing for 3 versions of sitecore now and have not seen movement towards catering for firefox (the safer browser). Why is that?
Well actually, they have when they’ve upgraded from v5.2 to v5.3.
I’m not fully aware of Firefox being more secure then IE is. Both have a lot of security concerns. IE’s security threads always reach the news as they still are the most populair browser world-wide.
I’ve seen the desktop version in Firefox some day, but I guess there were just to may issues with it. It seems sometimes that IE handles events and DHTML is a quicker and more stable way. It might not follow the conventions as much as FF does, but the robustness seems to be their.
I know the developers are really aware of the existence of Firefox and they do try to make all the stuff work. So I guess the bugs in Firefox received lower priority when releasing SC5.3.
There are alot of typ errors in your article ‘About me’.
like: definitelly and discovert..
should be : definitely and discovered
would be better to fix it
Hey
His English is better than mijn Nederland. Leave they guy alone, the typos make it more of an interesting read for a native English speaker.
No need to ‘spoke proper England’ here.
Hi Mr. Alex,
I am new with Sitecore, I currently have a client who is migrating their cms to it. I am trying to to TDD more especifically BDD using sitecore libraries, however I am having trouble Mocking the sitecore context in a non web environment.
I was wondering if there is a recomended way of doing TDD in sitecore, or if there are libraries.
Thanks
Another way of doing TDD with Sitecore is to wrap tests into a webservice and call the service from your Test project in VS 2008 – this has so far been my solution and it works ok. Of course, it would be nice to have an HTTPContext emulator or something so the tests could be coded directly in the test project.
Ciekawy post, dodalem twoj blog do ulubionych, bede tu teraz wpadal czesciej, pozdrawiam
Does anyone know why the Silverlight Ria services fail to connect to the web server when used inside a SiteCore application?
Just imagine I read it twice. While I am not as accomplished on this subject, I match with your closings because they make sense. Gives Thanks and goodluck to you.
hi,
please help me to find out how sitecore stores the data in database.
Thanks
Priya
Do you know if there’s a concise description of the Sitecore object model? We’re trying to identify the object that will let us store a logged in user and have it intereact with a cookie.
JK
Alex.
We’re currently implementing a Sitecore / Dynamics Integration here at a Financial Services company in London. I’d be particularly interested to talk to you about your experiences especially around many to one and many-to-many relationships and exposing those to Sitecore. Shoot me an email.
Performing some browsing and noticed your website appears somewhat messed up in my K-meleon internet browser. But luckily hardly anybody makes use of it any lengthier but you might desire to appear into it.
Regarding Sitecore and TDD have you looked at the System.Web.Abstractions assembly as a way of faking the HttpContext?
Another option is to use the Moles approach being worked on by Microssoft Research or to Telerik’s Isolator, both allow .NET method calls to be re-wired in order to get around some of the testing issues with Sitecore.
Hi Alex
You look like a nice young man. I received spam from this domain alexiasoft.nl:/public_html/reunie that contained my private address which is disturbing and also a malicious link. You are clearly tech savvy and assuming you are not personally responsible then perhaps you have been hacked. If you would like more information please contact me.
David
Great Alex de Groot I appreciate you work.
Good Luck !!!