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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 website. It [...]

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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. Yeah [...]

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At Sitecore we have upgraded our site to version 6. Because of our tightly integration with background systems it took a little moment. But finally we’re there. As we’ve got 20+ content editors across the globe, the change affected lots of editors. I’ll show you a mail from the head of our marketing department, Paul [...]

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This week I got notified that one of the Dutch developer from our partner Evident is blogging about Sitecore: Mark van Aalst. Good work Mark and keep up posting. Hopefully a bit more then I do…

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Funny, check this post on From handling by Scott Guthrie. Why exactly do we want to move away from the ASP.NET Control model to MVC? To write more code? Even creating a form becomes harder. Wasn’t MVC designed to display… Models? I might be to tired right now to understand this. But I can’t see [...]

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There seem to be a couple of issues with some libraries referenced in 5.3 when you run those libraries on an 64-bit environment. A while ago I heard about a trick which would allow you to run IIS in 32-bit mode, even when the OS is running on 64-bits. Today a partner called me with [...]

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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 [...]

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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!

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