Inheritance techniques in Sitecore ASP.NET CMS
There are two techniques for inheritance which are commonly used in all Sitecore solutions; hierarchical inheritance and template inheritance. Sadly, Sitecore offers no straight forward out-of-the-box...
View ArticleDrawing the customization line
Sitecore is an extremely flexible system; in fact most of Sitecore is built with the extensibility and customization functionalities which is provided. This includes pipelines, events, commands,...
View Article5 worst code smells in Sitecore
Last year I wrote a blog post on doing code reviews on Sitecore. While dealing with conceptual issues it doesn’t really say what to look for in code, when evaluating the quality or to evaluate if any...
View ArticleWill dynamics in .NET 4 change the way we do Sitecore?
I am spending my time these days walking the halls of Berlin Messe at the Microsoft TechEd 2009. One of the interesting upcoming features of .NET 4 is the introduction of dynamic language support in...
View ArticleGoogle Search Appliance, cool API’s
Me and my colleague Brian Pedersen have been spending time in London (thx to Google London and Dave Gallerizzo of Fig Leaf) this week looking into the Google Search Appliance (GSA) – which is a really...
View ArticleComposite Layouts – keeping your stuff together
I’ve always been a big fan of keeping things that belongs together, together. This might be an obvious fact, but I sometimes find that in Sitecore, it’s not so easy to follow. If you read my post on...
View ArticleSitecore learning portal launched
My cooworker Jimmi Lyhne Andersen and I are glad to announce that we have finally finished a project we have been working on for quite a while now; a complete learning site for Sitecore. Check it out...
View ArticleLINQ to Sitecore
We are here at TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona and have just attended a really cool session by Bart De Smet (blog here) titled LINQ to Anything. As you can imagine, the talk was about writing Linq...
View ArticleSitecore and System.Web.Routing
There is a lot going on from Microsofts side on the ASP.NET side. .NET 3.5 SP1 included Dynamic Data and in .NET 4.0 the Microsoft MVC framework (out in a preview) will be a major feature. Alex has...
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