Creating and running custom pipelines in Sitecore

A lot of what happens when you request a page in Sitecore is handled by pipelines. Actually, Sitecore makes extensive use of pipelines all the way from handling page requests, to uploading files and saving items through the UI.
So what is a pipeline? A pipeline is a discrete set of steps, executed in order. It [...]

Windows Command Bindings for Revolver

So, you may have guessed that I lean towards the *nix way of doing things with the command bindings in Revolver. I prefer ls over dir. But if you’re writing code for Sitecore you’re definatly working in a Windows environment and probably not so comfortable with the *nix commands.
I’ve written Revolver to be extensible and [...]

Sitecore as a Content Delivery Platform

Sitecore does a really good job of separating content from presentation. And a side effect of this is that we can reuse either part in other ways. We can reuse the content section of Sitecore to author and deliver content to different applications and we can reuse the presentation to generate markup for data which [...]

XML serialization of read only properties

I was writing a service the other day where I wanted to marshal a custom class across the service boundary. This scenario starts off as a web service (no WCF here…at least not yet anyway). Now it’s quite easy to marshal your own custom class across the web service server to the client…or so you [...]