Escapades and exploits in the world of Sitecore and .NET
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I recently found myself doing some performance optimisations around renderings in Sitecore, one of which involved caching. Having spent time cache tuning some renderings I wanted to prove the cache contained the HTML markup I expected . Unfortunately Sitecore doesn’t let you view the contents of the HTML cache without writing some custom code. Sitecore…
From time to time I have to do some Solr configuration for a client and tend to experience a couple of obscure errors that I stumble into, fix, and then proceed to forget about until the next time. Well it’s time to write these tidbits down for future reference…. Often you will complete your new…
There are large performance gains to be had in Sitecore by employing judicious use of caching. As Sitecore developers we should try and be mindful, that performance should be a consideration from the start when building a component. Caching is an important part of ensuring we build performant controls, yet to some caching is a…
Despite working with Sitecore in depth for a couple of years I had never had the opportunity to delve into the Marketing and Analytics parts of the XP. The perfect opportunity came up recently when the client upgraded their Sitecore 6.6 installation to 8.2. The Analytics functions were not displaying data through the Apps on…
In the past I’ve not put much onus on visiting user groups. I once visited a .NET user group for the first time when I lived in Sussex and the experience was heavily tarnished by trying to interact with developers possessing zero social skills or even the ability to converse in basic terms. After talking…
Having worked with Sitecore for a couple of years, thrown in at the deep end and self taught – I decided it was time to do the certification and get a firm grounding in the software from scratch. Sitecore 8.2 was the latest version at the time, though I realised later that if I’d waited…