Sitecore 6.2 RSS

When Sitecore 6.2 was released I wrote a post about some of the new features included in the release. One of which was inbuilt RSS. I think this feature was quite underplayed on my part, so allow me to make a song and dance about it here.
The RSS capabilities of Sitecore 6.2 comes in 2 [...]

Firefox Content Editor Scrollbar Issue

It was a real shame when Sitecore removed Firefox support when they released Sitecore 5.3. In prior versions of Sitecore you still had the option to log into the desktop from the login screen when using Firefox. And even though it didn’t look quite as perfect as it did in IE, it was so much [...]

Extending the Control Panel

Recently I had a situation where I needed to run a lengthy process inside my Sitecore solution which needed to run some custom code. The actual process itself was to update a separate Lucene index we were using for a user search component on an intranet. I prefer to perform user search against an index [...]

Quietest…Release…Ever

Sitecore 6.2 was released last night in probably the quietest release Sitecore has done in a long time. Why am I saying it was a quiet release? Well I had no idea it was coming and only found out after reading John West’s blog and finding a reference to the new version hidden in [...]

Few things going on in Sitecore land?

There’s a few things going on at the moment in the world of Sitecore.
Firstly the Sitecore Australian and New Zealand user group is having it’s second user group meeting, this time in Sydney Australia on 28th October 2009. Tim Ward, Solution Architect for Sitecore Australia will be taking attendees through some of the new features [...]

Copy and Paste Items Server to Server

Sitecore has done a very good job of making item management in Sitecore very much like file management in your OS. Operations such as moving items, ordering items, copying and pasting items is as simple as a drag or a click. All this works quite well, but only for the current server you’re on.
If you [...]

Team Development with Sitecore the Easy way

Most of the Sitecore implementations I’m involved in have me working in a team environment. In fact, this is pretty normal for any IT project. Although a team environment has many benefits, there are also some complexities that need to be addressed in terms of keeping the development environment in sync.
There are two things that [...]

Composite Presentation Inheritance

I have often wanted a way in Sitecore to be able to define most of my pages presentation in a base template but customise that presentation on more specific items.
Sitecore has a facility to inherit default values through the use of data template standard values. This mechanism works for all fields including presentation (__renderings field). [...]

Techniques for Sharing Content

This post is based on the materials I recently presented to the Sitecore Australia & New Zealand User Group.
Sitecore allows the sharing of content due to the separation of content from presentation. In fact, you can consider the presentation to itself be content as the presentation definition for an item is stored in a field; [...]

OMS Analytics

With the release of Sitecore 6.1 and OMS last week, I can finally write about it! I was lucky enough a few months ago to be invited to a sneak peak session for Sitecore’s new product the Online Marketing Suite (OMS), previously called “Everest” (Everest was actually the title given to Sitecore 6.1 and OMS [...]