10 reasons to go to Sitecore Symposium
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.
A fresh start
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
Blog module update
This week I released the stable version of the EviBlog module. The module works on all Sitecore solutions based on version 6.2.
Configure a authoring server as publishing instance
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.
Copy & Paste Layout Settings
While developing a Sitecore website there are lots of situations where you want multiple items to have the same Presentation Settings (renderings/sublayouts/layout)
Creating a Item Editor
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.
Custom search for Sitecore blogs
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.
Daily Tip: Support Package Generator
You might recognize this scenario. During your project you encounter some problem and you need the help of Sitecore Support
Disable Sitecore publishing
To avoid problems during the development of an Sitecore site it could be useful to disable the Sitecore Publishing method.
DMS Gutters released
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.
Dutch webinar about faster developing with Sitecore Rocks and VS2010
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
Excluding Sitecore assemblies using NuGet
For some time now you can use NuGet to manage Sitecore dependencies in your Visual Studio projects.
Extending the Item Buckets Search Operations
As you might know you can use Item Buckets in Sitecore 7 to execute operations on multiple items at the same time.
Filter Engagement Analytics reports by site with a custom filter
By default Sitecore comes with a few default reports within the Engagement Analytics.
How we created the SUGCON keynote
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.
Introducing Sitecore Blok
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.
Keyboard shortcuts for working with Item Buckets
When working with item buckets in Sitecore 7 there are a few keyboard shortcuts that might come in handy.
Maximum number of Sitecore query items
Last week I had some problems with an Sitecore Query. It didn't show more than an fixed number of items.
Multiple Images Selector field
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.
New job: Sitecore Solution Architect
As of the first of january I am the new solution architect for Sitecore in the Netherlands.
Quick tip: Keep your local Sitecore license in one place
So, you are running multiple Sitecore instances on your local machine and each one with their own license file.
Restricting FieldEditor to specific template based items
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.
Rich Text Editor
One of the most annoying things about Sitecore is that the Rich Text Editor needs to be opent in an seperate web page dialog.
Sitecore released version 6.2!
Today Sitecore released version 6.2. According to the change log their are several new (cool) features.
Sitecore roadmap
Tonight I was catching up with some RSS Feeds and Twitter messages, when I noticed that SPN (Sitecore Partner Network) is renewed.
Tips for visiting Sitecore Symposium Amsterdam (#SitecoreSym)
Since their are a few hundred Sitecore enthusiasts coming to Amsterdam we thought I would come in handy to share a few links.
Sitecore Validation Rules
In Sitecore you can use validation rules. By default there are three validations rules on each template.
The word is out
As you might have noticed Sitecore announced the list of the 2008 Sitecore MVPs
Three key improvements we made in SXA
Two weeks ago the Sitecore Symposium 2019 in Orlando kicked of with the pre-conference seminars on Monday.
Using ELMAH for error logging within Sitecore
Since a while I use ELMAH for error logging in my custom ASP.NET applications.
Using JQuery in custom fields
At the moment I'm creating a custom field for tagging content items. I prototyped my custom field in html using JQuery.
Using profile with the Rich Text Editor
Regularly I see topics on the SDN5 forums where people ask if it is possible to use a custom Rich Text editor.
Using wildcards and displaynames in urls
In Sitecore we know wildcards, which will give you the possibility to create dynamic urls.
Using XAML controls outside the Sitecore folder
In certain cases you want to offer the end-user a userfriendly interface to manage content, users or anything else.
Webinar: Technical introduction into Lucene
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