On February 9th Pieter and I will give a webinar showing you how to develop a basic website by using only Visual Studio 2010 and Sitecore Rocks. The webinar starts at 15.00 hours. Topics that will be covered are: Navigating into the content tree Managing data templates Creating presentation components Job and log management Managing Lucene search indexes Searching in Sitecore Publishing Validation Wizard You can sign up for the webinar here. Note: the webinar [...]

In certain cases you want to offer the end-user a userfriendly interface to manage content, users or anything else. Thanks to Sitecore’s backend flexibility this is possible in more ways than one. In this case I will use the technique which is described in this blogpost by Adam Conn. In the example you can see that a new window is opened by the code below: public override void Execute(CommandContext context) { Assert.ArgumentNotNull(context, "context"); UrlString url [...]

This week I got a question from one of our partners about a publishing server. They have an environment in which the authors edit the content on several content authoring servers and publish it to the content delivery servers. In my example underneath we have an environment with multiple content management servers (CM) and multiple content delivery (CD) servers. Whenever a content editor publishes one or more items from the CM to the CD servers [...]

As of the first of january I am the new solution architect for Sitecore in the Netherlands. I am the second solution architect next to Pieter Brinkman. Together we will be responsible for: Technical Presentations and demonstrations Providing Technical Trainings Defining Sitecore architecture/blueprint for customer and partners Developing CMS relevant (sales) propositions Develop demo’s and POC with sales, product specialist and product development Support local sales in responding to tenders/rfi/rfp Keep relevant technical/market knowledge up [...]

Since a while I use ELMAH for error logging in my custom ASP.NET applications. Normally in a Sitecore project I log all exceptions to the Sitecore log files. But the disadvantage of this is that the exceptions are in the same files as all Sitecore log messages. So I tried to implement ELMAH within my Sitecore installation. What is ELMAH? According to the official site: “ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error [...]