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Posts from 2010

Dogfooding your CMS

Recently Janus Boye posted a quick test of leading CMS vendor sites and how they faired using a mobile browser to view the site. I must say I was quite proud reading this list. Most of the vendors failed the test, but two out of the three CMSes that passed were the CMSes I use almost every day; Sitecore and WordPress. Now, the author didn't detail what the test constituted, but from what I read...

New Technique for Unit Testing Renderings in Sitecore

Unit testing in Sitecore always seems to be a hot topic amongst the Sitecore community, especially the new comers to the Sitecore game. And rightly so. Working out how you can effectively unit test your Sitecore code can be very confusing when you’re still trying to come to grips with a new system and it’s way of doing things. And it’s not immediately apparent how you can do such testing. I think...

More Uses for Revolver

Revolver is a very flexible tool for helping developers and administrators do stuff in Sitecore. Recently I was part of or witness to some queries about how to do some things in Sitecore that weren’t apparent, or simply cannot be done without your own customisation. These queries touched on 2 of the tenants of Revolver; these are to fill in the gaps of the current UI (in terms of functionality),...

InfoDesktop

Back in January of this year Jens Mikkelsen (fellow MVP) published a great article about publishing strategies in Sitecore. To support his recommendation about using a scheduled publish Jens showed a countdown timer displaying in the Sitecore taskbar. This Sitecore UI tweak really inspired me and got me to thinking about what other kinds of information could be displayed in the desktop and in...

Search Considerations for Sharing Content

Late last year I wrote a post exploring some techniques for sharing content inside Sitecore. One thing I didn’t really take into account was searching and indexing of this shared content. Paul recently left a comment on the post bringing this to my attention. Thanks Paul. So I’d like to address these issues now. The way in which your shared content is indexed will depend on the technique used as...

2009 Sitecore MVPs, Welcome to the club

Well, Sitecore has just announced the newest members of the MVP club. You can read all about the 2009 MVPs and the MVP programme in Sitecore’s press release which you can find here: http://www.sitecore.net/News/Press-releases/2009/Sitecore-MVPs.aspx. I’d like to welcome to the club the following 2009 Sitecore MVPs. Guillaume Buat-Ménard from Aqueduct Jason Davey from Bullseye Sebastian Winslow...

Revolver 1.1 is Released!

It's been a very long ride, but the next minor version of Revolver has finally been released. If you currently hold a license for Revolver you can download the new version from the Revolver downloads page on the codeflood website. The quick start guide has also been updated. In case you haven't seen it yet, Revolver is a module I wrote for Sitecore to provide a command prompt inside the Sitecore...

Announcing codeflood

It is with great pleasure I finally announce the launch of my new website, codeflood. So what is codeflood? codeflood is an attempt at a more professional web presence than my previous self indulgent website World of Al. codeflood is where I will host my projects such as Revolver for Sitecore and SashimiCMS. Although the current project pages on World of Al will remain, all the new stuff and new...

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