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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 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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For a prospect customer I’ve created a prototype where the URLs where translated in Sitecore. As this solution was pretty much well-designed and documented, I’ve decided to share it with the rest of the world.The solution is designed for Sitecore 5.3 and does take advantage of the C# 3 features.
You can find the module here, [...]

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I’ven’t been posting a lot lately. Generally because of I’ve broken my arm during wintersport.
It’s my third week now at Sitecore and although I’ve got this unpleasant, really annoying handicap, I’m having a great time. It’s really nice to visit all the different partners and customers. All of them are friendly and real pleasant [...]

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Yes, I start this post with Part 1 of X. A lot of you guys have noticed that I’m not that good at finishing blogseries. I guess that’s the result of trying always be one step ahead. you forget what’s ahead .
Well back to the subject again: productivity. For a long time I’m noticing [...]

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Today, Allan Thræn has published an excellent article on the MondoSearch integration in Sitecore. A couple months ago, as lead-engineer of the product, Allan gave my colleague Ben and me a cool demo of the Sitecore 5.2 based integration of MondoSearch. We we’re happily surprised! It’s a wonderful, easily configurable and maybe even more important, very fast module. Next to it, Allan [...]

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As described here, I’m investigating what kind of problems to expect when we migrate a website from 5.2 to 5.3. As I got some time left today, I’ve decided to continue work on the project.
Migration module:
First I’ve investigated how the Migration module worked. This summary stood on SDN:
Data Migration module allows transferring data from the former versions [...]

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For one of our customers, I’m going to do a test migration from Sitecore 5.2 to 5.3 the rest of today and tomorrow. The goals of the test migration:

Find out what’s the main problem: code or content
Find out how many time is exactly spent when upgrading the original databases to a new, 5.3 version
Check which CMS-changes has [...]

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Yes, guess that’s the right title for this post. Almost every day of the last 2 weeks, almost every hour and nearly every quarter I’ve decided to do a blogpost, but all of them didn’t make it. I guess it’s just because my head is just to full of ideas. I’ll tell you guys what goes [...]

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