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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 your website, you [...]

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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. But [...]

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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, I’d [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. The [...]

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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 [...]

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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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You can feel it everywhere! Lord of the Rings starts with these sentences. So does my new project. I’m not going to reveal anything. But some parts might be interesting for you. On January 1st 2009, I’ll start of with a new website. This website is rather a project then just a single [...]

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