Partial Html Cache Clearing
*the code was updated 8/2/2011 with some insight from Mrunal Brahmbhatt. Much appreciated. Â So I recently upgraded my system to Sitecore 6.4 from Sitecore 6.2 and was pumped about a lot of the new...
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Fix Broken User Manager
I've long given up on using the User Manager paging buttons until yesterday when looking over the known issues, I found an article describing a solution to my problem on SDN. Knowing at least one...
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Sitecore Data Importer
Many of the projects I've worked on over the past several years have required importing data either from SQL or from an existing Sitecore installation itself. The original application was a page form...
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Add Css Classes to Sitecore Rich Text Editor
There are lots of ways to add css classes to sites and I've covered how to setup stylesheets for multi-site installations, but if you're only building a single site on Sitecore and you're looking to...
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Transform Web Controls In Sitecore Rich Text Editor
This article is a follow-up to an article written previously by John West about embedding web controls in Rich Text Editors. I spent some good time using web controls in the Rich Text Editor to allow...
View ArticleUsing Short IDs
If you've ever worked with Sitecore for any length of time you've worked with an item ID. It's in the form: {7294ECFC-0C37-44AD-B728-ABA259B18889}. There are times when you need to pass the ID around...
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Setting Up a Sitecore Extranet
I've recently needed to setup an extranet for several websites and began researching. There are several helpful articles on the topic. I found bolaky.net and blog.wojciech.org as well as using...
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Adding a button to the Rich Text Editor in Sitecore 6.4
Since there were some significant changes in Sitecore's RTE when they upgraded to Telerik's new libraries from Sitecore 6.3 to 6.4. I'd written previously about adding buttons to the RTE before and...
View ArticleDeprecated Sitecore Field Conversions
So while preparing my Sitecore system for a future upgrade to 6.5 I noticed that there were a lot of fields that were using deprecated field types. It's not a surprise since the original system was...
View ArticleSitecore Symposium Kickoff
I'm at Sitecore Symposium in sunny Las Vegas and I'm going to be writing a series of articles covering the developer track that I'm attending. I'll be trying to live blog where I can. So far I've met...
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Sitecore Keynote
Immediate: Relevant: Predictive. That's where Sitecore is taking us this year. The demo of the well known Nikam fake product website was telling of how they're looking towards a more integrated...
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Developer Keynote
The developer keynote was kicked off with the venerable Lars Nielsen whose presence implies Sitecore has been able to maintain its brain trust through it's explosive growth over recent years. Getting...
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Sitecore Brightcove Connector
I'm extremely excited about the number of people who are in attendance for the Brightcove Sitecore connector. This was as you may or may not know a labor of love for me since it's built off of my open...
View ArticleEnhancing Lucene Search
So I'm attending the "Enhancing search for Lucene" because I've been using Lucene lightly for years but haven't had the time to fully vet it for more mainstream use. I love it for its speed and...
View ArticleSitecore Mobile Framework
Sitecore's "ultra cool mobile framework" will prove to be a defining moment in their ability to surf the frenzy that is the internet. With an exploding population of netizens hailing from their mobile...
View ArticleSitecore Multiple Site Solutions
Multiple-site solutions are one facet of the Sitecore ecosystem that I'm intimately familiar with so I'm really looking forward to see how other developers have solved the problems that tend to crop...
View ArticleKeynote With Gary Vaynerchuk
I'm back at it at Sitecore Symposium day 3 in the keynote session with Gary Vaynerchuk. Still a little groggy from last night at Haze tearing it up with all the die hard Sitecore employees, partners...
View ArticleUsing the Powershell With Sitecore
Sitecore and the powershell is a talk I've been looking forward to for a while. I'm a one man team so my life revolves around automation. The thought of being able to streamline my process and shave...
View ArticleVelir Field Suite Module
I'm catching the talk on the field suite module presented by Tim Braga from Velir. I'm all about anything that improves the default set of fields provided out of the box from Sitecore. He was Also...
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Item Buckets by Tim Ward
After the last mind blowing talk by Tim Ward I decided it would be prudent to catch this talk about breaking the million item mark with content buckets. As if simply storing this much information...
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