Escapades and exploits in the world of Sitecore and .NET
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It’s been long overdue but Sitecore have finally opened up their software downloads to the public. It used to be the case that you needed a Sitecore account tied to a certification in order to download the installation packages. I must admit I did used to find this puzzling as it seemed to place obstacles…
A few months ago a client asked if I could upgrade their Sitecore 9.0 Update 1 real estate to the latest version 9.3. Sitecore upgrades always require a fair amount of due diligence, planning and attention to detail in execution. Unfortunately talk to anyone who has carried out a Sitecore upgrade before (especially one that…
A colleague recently asked me for advice on an issue he had whereby a fast query was not returning all the items from a particular folder in the content tree. Now leave aside for a minute the fact that fast query was being used dubiously (it was an ancient legacy part of the system with…
Having missed last year’s SUGCON in Berlin due to family commitments I had no excuse to visit the conference in London this year. Well, apart from a small family commitment in the form of my son due to arrive in a week! Still its only a 4 hour trip home should he decide to arrive…
In this series I’ll be mentioning some of those slightly lesser known modules that exist in the Sitecore Marketplace, which I’ve found particularly useful. There really is a plethora of useful modules on there, some quite old, some bang up to date, but hopefully you might find one or two as useful as I have.…
Totally sensationalist headline for a small issue but now I’ve got your attention… 😛 View precompilation is cool, it lets us catch errors at compile time, helping us to fail faster and we can avoid the performance hit of compilation at runtime since the views are already compiled. We no longer need to ship the…