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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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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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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 Markun, [...]

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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 often find out that I can cause exceptions on Sitecore sites. This can really harm your website. For example, enough exceptions can let your application pool perform a restart. After this restart your Sitecore installation will re-initialise its cache which takes some times. I’ve even seen that IIS dumps it’s full memory running on [...]

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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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Dear Derek Roberti,
First of all I’m glad to see you blogging. And you spend a lot of time on good post. This time I just want to add a note which should be common knowledge for all Sitecore Developer. Alex Shyba wrote a comment, but I would expand this a little.
The DisplayName of a Sitecore [...]

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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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Pretty funny, I just came across a lack of defensive programming by myself… Over and over I use the following codesnaps:
string query = string.Format(“./*/item[@templatename='{0}']“, CompetenceType);Item[] result = InnerItem.Axes.SelectItems(query);

Do you see the problem? Well, CompetenceType might contain a single-quote… If it does, the parser of the query will throw an error. Blerg! So the yellowpage will [...]

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