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Archive for March, 2009

Multithreading with Delegates

March 31, 2009

Multithreaded code is becoming more common place. Even for web applications. This is largely due to the increasing number of cores appearing on CPUs these days. The chip manufacturers have come close to the limit in terms of how fast a chip can run before it starts to melt. So to continue increases in processing [...]

Get your workflow in order

March 18, 2009

I really like workflow in Sitecore. It’s simple but powerful. The workbox is a great view into workflow and anything that needs my attention. By default, the workbox displays items in workflow states ordered by name. At times it would be nice if I could order by some other attribute like the updated field. So [...]

Extending the Sitecore image processor

March 4, 2009

You’ve no doubt used the dynamic image manipulation capabilities of Sitecore before. This feature allows you to dynamically manipulate images from the media library using the query string. For example, to request an image with width 150 I would append w=150 into the query string:

http://domain/~/media/images/myimage.ashx?w=150

Sitecore will then dynamically scale this image to 150 pixels wide [...]