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Introducing Sitecore Blok
November 7, 2023 · 4 min read

Blok is Sitecore’s product design system: the UI framework and style guide we use to build great apps. It’s publicly available, so that anyone can easily build software in the Sitecore design language.

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Excluding Sitecore assemblies using NuGet
May 13, 2020 · 5 min read

For some time now you can use NuGet to manage Sitecore dependencies in your Visual Studio projects.

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Three key improvements we made in SXA
November 18, 2019 · 2 min read

Two weeks ago the Sitecore Symposium 2019 in Orlando kicked of with the pre-conference seminars on Monday.

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How we created the SUGCON keynote
September 9, 2017 · 4 min read

On May 18th and 19th, the Sitecore User Group Conference was being held in Amsterdam. A conference organized by the Dutch and Nordic user groups.

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Quick tip: Keep your local Sitecore license in one place
June 17, 2016 · 1 min read

So, you are running multiple Sitecore instances on your local machine and each one with their own license file.

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Keyboard shortcuts for working with Item Buckets
June 30, 2013 · 2 min read

When working with item buckets in Sitecore 7 there are a few keyboard shortcuts that might come in handy.

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DMS Gutters released
April 8, 2013 · 1 min read

Today I published a new client feature on the marketplace called DMS Gutters. It will help the business user identifying which items contains tests and personalisation.

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Extending the Item Buckets Search Operations
April 1, 2013 · 3 min read

As you might know you can use Item Buckets in Sitecore 7 to execute operations on multiple items at the same time.

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Filter Engagement Analytics reports by site with a custom filter
February 15, 2013 · 3 min read

By default Sitecore comes with a few default reports within the Engagement Analytics.

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Multiple Images Selector field
December 4, 2012 · 1 min read

Recently I got a question from one of our partners for a field in which a user can select multiple images and also have a overview of the selected images.

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Daily Tip: Support Package Generator
November 5, 2012 · 2 min read

You might recognize this scenario. During your project you encounter some problem and you need the help of Sitecore Support

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Tips for visiting Sitecore Symposium Amsterdam (#SitecoreSym)
August 31, 2012 · 2 min read

Since their are a few hundred Sitecore enthusiasts coming to Amsterdam we thought I would come in handy to share a few links.

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10 reasons to go to Sitecore Symposium
July 27, 2012 · 2 min read

Sitecore Symposium (former Dreamcore) is a three day conference for Sitecore developers, partners and customers. There are three kinds of sessions; developer, product and business tracks.

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Webinar: Technical introduction into Lucene
June 27, 2012 · 1 min read

Last week I gave a webinar (in Dutch) about Lucene where I showed how to create indexes, a custom crawler and showed some basic search logic

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Using wildcards and displaynames in urls
May 8, 2012 · 3 min read

In Sitecore we know wildcards, which will give you the possibility to create dynamic urls.

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Dutch webinar about faster developing with Sitecore Rocks and VS2010
January 24, 2012 · 1 min read

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

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Using XAML controls outside the Sitecore folder
January 23, 2012 · 2 min read

In certain cases you want to offer the end-user a userfriendly interface to manage content, users or anything else.

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Configure a authoring server as publishing instance
January 12, 2012 · 4 min read

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.

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New job: Sitecore Solution Architect
January 10, 2012 · 1 min read

As of the first of january I am the new solution architect for Sitecore in the Netherlands.

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Using ELMAH for error logging within Sitecore
March 24, 2011 · 3 min read

Since a while I use ELMAH for error logging in my custom ASP.NET applications.

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Using JQuery in custom fields
February 18, 2010 · 2 min read

At the moment I'm creating a custom field for tagging content items. I prototyped my custom field in html using JQuery.

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Restricting FieldEditor to specific template based items
February 17, 2010 · 1 min read

In Sitecore 6.2 it is possible to integrate FieldEditors. These are command which enables users edit item settings when they work in the page editor.

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Blog module update
November 27, 2009 · 1 min read

This week I released the stable version of the EviBlog module. The module works on all Sitecore solutions based on version 6.2.

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Sitecore released version 6.2!
October 21, 2009 · 1 min read

Today Sitecore released version 6.2. According to the change log their are several new (cool) features.

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Sitecore roadmap
October 20, 2009 · 1 min read

Tonight I was catching up with some RSS Feeds and Twitter messages, when I noticed that SPN (Sitecore Partner Network) is renewed.

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Creating a Item Editor
August 19, 2009 · 3 min read

For a blog module that I am developing I wanted to create an custom item editor. As you might know those are the tabs in the Content Editor.

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A fresh start
August 7, 2009 · 1 min read

Last week I took a look at my blog and realized that I haven't posted anything the last few months. I just couldn't find the time to write anything

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The word is out
January 6, 2009 · 1 min read

As you might have noticed Sitecore announced the list of the 2008 Sitecore MVPs

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Custom search for Sitecore blogs
December 26, 2008 · 1 min read

Whenever I use Google to search for Sitecore information I get a lot of marketing and CMS review results and a few results with detailed developer information.

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Maximum number of Sitecore query items
November 5, 2008 · 1 min read

Last week I had some problems with an Sitecore Query. It didn't show more than an fixed number of items.

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Using profile with the Rich Text Editor
November 5, 2008 · 1 min read

Regularly I see topics on the SDN5 forums where people ask if it is possible to use a custom Rich Text editor.

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Disable Sitecore publishing
October 20, 2008 · 1 min read

To avoid problems during the development of an Sitecore site it could be useful to disable the Sitecore Publishing method.

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Sitecore 6 released
July 1, 2008 · 1 min read

Yesterday the people at Sitecore released the new version of their CMS.

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Copy & Paste Layout Settings
May 13, 2008 · 1 min read

While developing a Sitecore website there are lots of situations where you want multiple items to have the same Presentation Settings (renderings/sublayouts/layout)

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Rich Text Editor
May 13, 2008 · 1 min read

One of the most annoying things about Sitecore is that the Rich Text Editor needs to be opent in an seperate web page dialog.

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Sitecore Validation Rules
May 13, 2008 · 1 min read

In Sitecore you can use validation rules. By default there are three validations rules on each template.