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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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Sitecore is alive and kicking. A lot is happening internally on product development. New modules and integrations with technology partners get released at the same speed as Bugatti Veyrons get sold . In new (even emerging) markets such as Australia, South Africa, Israel, Asia and New Zealand, Sitecore becomes the standard for Web Marketing. [...]

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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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In Sitecore 6 we’ve introduced an extremely cool functionality which is called serialization. You can identify this functionality in the ribbon interface:

Ok, cool Alex, but what’s the purpose of this functionality? We all know how hard it is to maintain different environments in a structured way. Most of the Sitecore partners are using a [...]

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There’s nice news upcoming, from next week we’re allowed to talk about our latest and newest release Crestone. These days I’m in Copenhagen and you can feel the excitement. In the upcoming days there will be a lot of press releases about the exact product, what’s going to happen in terms of a beta period(the [...]

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It’s great to work in a company like Sitecore. I’ve seen a lot of countries so far and this weekend I’m again in the beautiful and quite city of Copenhagen. Travelling, meeting people and a lot of thinking; guess that’s the story of my first few months being part of Sitecore International. I might forgot [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve been actively blogging about some core parts of Sitecore. As the guys in Copenhagen are working really hard on a release called ‘Crestone’, It becomes time again to get you guys 100% up-to-date.
Well back to the current release. Take the last build: 5.3.2 rev. 071220. It does contain a [...]

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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))
[...]

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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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I want to pay some special attention to the Publishing Aliases topic on SDN5-Forum. Jennifer Chance, properly a wonderfull lady employed at an unknown Sitecore partner, has asked how she could publish Aliases. By clicking on publish these days, none of the related items will be touched. Of course this approach won’t case any performence issues [...]

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