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Archive for December, 2008

2008, the year that was

December 31, 2008

So. 2008. What a year! We’ve seen a lot of activity from Sitecore this year. We had the Beta program for the new Sitecore codenamed Crestone which was later released as Sitecore 6. This version of Sitecore is the most polished to date (as you would expect). The Sitecore product just keeps getting better and [...]

Sitecore Desktop in Firefox and production javascript debugging

December 23, 2008

Back in the pre Sitecore 5.3 days I would sometimes prefer to use Firefox when logging into the Sitecore desktop. Firefox was much faster than IE for this interface, and especially if I was looking at a slow implementation Firefox would help ease some frustration. The desktop didn’t look exactly as it should in Firefox, [...]

My Sitecore Wishlist

December 17, 2008

A few weeks ago Alex de Groot asked the Sitecore community, through a post on his blog, what we want to see in Sitecore. How would we improve it? What features are we missing?
So rather than comment on his post, I am posting my response here. Hopefully it will invoke some thought and others will [...]

Common uses for Revolver

December 9, 2008

When developing Sitecore solutions I use Revolver a lot. I find it easier and quicker at times to do things in the command prompt than clicking through the beautiful UI. So here’s a bit of a list of common scenarios I use Revolver for.
Most of the scripts below utilise the find command. By far I [...]