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Archive for February, 2009

Warning: Memory leaks ahead

February 24, 2009

Hang on, memory leaks? But this is .net where memory leaks are a thing of the past. If you’ve never done C or C++ before, then you’ve probably never had the enjoyment of searching through your code looking for memory leaks. A memory leak is memory an application allocates, but doesn’t deallocate when it’s done [...]

WCF Trace Tool

February 16, 2009

I’ve been doing a fair bit of WCF lately. And an absolute nightmare of an error to try to debug is the “Channel was in a faulted state” error. This is a very generic error and doesn’t really say much at all about the cause of the error.
The way WCF communicates is through channels. When [...]

Multiple sites and the Preview Interface

February 10, 2009

I experienced a very weird issue the other day that was to do with the preview interface. When I set a publish restriction by date on a particular item for a future date, although the preview interface respected the date restriction, when I changed the preview date it’s as if the interface ignored the date. [...]

The Sitecore Australian and New Zealand users group

February 2, 2009

In a recent post, Phil Heltewig announced the Sitecore Australian and New Zealand users group (SCAUG although this is being changed to include our New Zealand members to SCANZUG). This is a community run group to support anyone who develops in or uses Sitecore in the Australia and New Zealand region. And who should it [...]