HAML Rendering for Sitecore

I first heard about Haml (XHTML Abstraction Markup Language) early this year on Alexey’s blog. At first I thought “What’s the point?”. After all, HTML is easy to understand and is itself a markup language. Why do I need a markup language for a markup language? But when you start writing in this higher level [...]

A generic error occurred in gdi+

I had the above error the other day when using a new install of Sitecore. At first the error doesn’t seem to reveal much, and it quite … generic . This was happening when I was trying to create a new rendering through the developer centre in the Sitecore desktop. The full error [...]

ChangeTemplate with Revolver

One of the goals of Revolver is to provide a platform for custom tool development and execution. Often we need to execute some code against an arbitrary set of items from the content tree. For example, yesterday I had to change the template of most of the items in the content tree of the site [...]

Automated Testing and Sitecore – Part 8

Well. When I started writing this multi-part series on automated testing and Sitecore I never intended for it to flow over into 8 parts. But I think what I’ve covered in this series are the fundamental pieces any developer requires to be able to affectively automate their tests for Sitecore code.
So, now that we’re at [...]