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Posted in Sitecore on Aug 24th, 2010
Sitecore is moving a lot these days and releasing almost on a monthly base new and cool functionalities. Not everybody has the ability to work with Sitecore on a daily base an keep up with this new exciting functionality. So time for me to step in and guide you back to the highway by creating [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Feb 1st, 2010
A very common question I receive is that people don’t know anymore where to setup Insert Options. Especially with the new possibilities of the Sitecore 6.1 content management system. Here’s my view on this: Individual item Rarely, you want to setup Insert Options on individual items. Something when you have a specific folder or section in [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Nov 3rd, 2009
An annoying issue which came across twice this week: Sitecore was throwing “Specified cast is not valid”-Exceptions: And seriously, if there’s one thing I hate about .NET in general, it are exceptions. 95% of the time they are non self explaining and sometimes even nonsense. This exception would normally take me 20 minutes to solve at least. [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Aug 10th, 2009
To all of you Sitecore Developers, Architects and Webmasters out there. I just want to point you on our latest update: CMS 6.1.0 Update rev. 090722 , also known as 6.1.0 Update-1 ) and OMS 1.0.0 (full version number: Sitecore Online Marketing Suite 1.0.0 rev. 090722). Although it isn’t a recommended release at the moment, [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Aug 4th, 2009
One of the most unknown but very useful feature in Sitecore is the Subitem Sorting. Often there’s a need to sort a group of Items in a particular order. Either to create a good navigation or to help the content editor find their content. So let’s have a look how this functionality is working. I’ve [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Apr 7th, 2009
Just a short blogpost from me this morning. I want to thank all of you for supplying us so much valuable input. We highly appreciate the way you guys are helping us on improving all the different functionalities in Sitecore. Today I had a short conversation with a partner and later on one of our [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Mar 17th, 2009
Today I represent (as usual) my personal vision. I tell this once again, just to be sure that my personal vision won’t become Sitecore’s public vision . This morning while I was running through my task list I decided to share this on my twitter account: Thinking about my CMIS proposal for product management: can [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Feb 2nd, 2009
As a Solution Architect in Sitecore you often get request ‘howto do SSL in Sitecore’. Beside of our great Shared Source SSL module, you’ve to do something on configuring the network/OS level to register the certificate. So what’s the general idea of SSL? You want to have certain pages to execute over an encrypted connection. [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Jan 29th, 2009
I’ve reinstalled my machine of last night with Windows 7. I’m very happy with this new platform! Thank you Microsoft. One of the final reasons to start yesterday was that my database integration in Visual Studio was broken. Of course there where many more reasons, but that was the issue which made me do it [...]
Posted in Sitecore on Dec 26th, 2008
Sometimes when you’re updating item in hooks, you’ll receive strange error messages in the client. The reason for this is quite clear. Sitecore has an event system divided in 2 parts: the regular events such as item:created. The other one is the NotificationContext. This particular class is used by the Sitecore client to get notified [...]
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