Moving fields with Revolver

The Sitecore packager is a brilliant little application for moving things from one Sitecore server to another. One limitation I’ve run into with it is that it only operates on the item level. If I only need or want to update certain fields of an item, then I have to do it manually.
Or so I [...]

Line numbers in developer centre

Recently I was in a Sitecore training session where a student was commenting on the line numbers given in XSLT errors from .NET. As with most XSLT parsers, when the .NET XSLT parser encounters a syntax error in the XSLT file it gives a friendly error message including the line number the error occurred on. [...]

ASP.NET driving force behind .NET

Hmm. So what’s this new category here? Observation / Opinion? Well, to distinguish the regular tech posts from my not-so-tech thoughts and discussions, I’ve created a new category on this blog. If you’re only interested in the purely tech stuff, then you can ignore anything tagged in this category.
Anyway, I just finished listening to dot [...]

Quick launch toolbar for Sitecore

One feature I find I can’t live without in a windowed environment is the quicklaunch toolbar. This is the row of icons which sits next to the menu button.

I just find it so handy to launch any commonly used application from there rather than clicking through the menu to look for it. And yes, we [...]

Emitting different file types from Sitecore

One of the really nice things about Sitecore is the fact the developer has total control over the markup a particular page produces. Sitecore itself imposes no limitations or restrictions on how your markup needs to look. In fact, the dev has so much control, you don’t event have to emit markup from your pages. [...]