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Big Bash League vs Boxing Day Test
I love Test match cricket… When I was thirteen I remember lying in bed watching the Ashes live on Channel 9, it would have been just a bit after midnight local time when Shane Warne announced his...
View ArticleJJJ Hottest 100 2011
Even though Julian Gilchrist doesn’t have a song in this year’s Hottest 100, I still managed to find enough songs to vote on. I must be getting old though as these days I use the Hottest 100 to tell me...
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The story of Roland
It’s been more than two years since I last used an xkcd comic as a blog post. An article on social media privacy, in particular how to handle Facebook friend requests from employers by Lifehacker...
View ArticleUmbraco abandons version 5
In news sure to send shockwaves throughout the .Net CMS development community, last night at Codegarden 12 in Copenhagen, Niels Hartvig announced that version 5.2 (a patch release) would be the final...
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Common Sitecore CMS bug #1: Content Editor will only load root ‘sitecore’ item
A common browser-caching bug that I’ve seen over multiple versions in the 6.4 family of Sitecore CMS products is fairly simple to address. I’ve noticed it happens most often when you’re accessing the...
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Common Sitecore CMS bug #2: Cannot login to ‘Desktop Mode’
Second in a series on common Sitecore CMS bugs is another issue that has been observed across multiple versions of the 6.4 family. Following a configuration or server change of some type you find...
View ArticleDetermine Sitecore item ancestors and descendants without XPath or traversing...
A basic performance issue encountered with CMS platforms that use content trees is when you have to find whether an item is a child of another item. In Umbraco, a tree item (node) has a .Path property,...
View ArticleHow to debug ASP.NET Application_Start
In case you are ever in a situation where you need to debug code triggered in the ASP.Net Application_Start event before you have time to attach a debugger and your website can’t run by simply starting...
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Picasso on the price of quality
Lately there have been a few images being shared on LinkedIn that have been liked and re-shared quite favourable, all of them touching on a common theme. If you think it’s expensive to hire a...
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Quickly copy item paths to clipboard using Sitecore Rocks
There’s a handy feature in Sitecore Rocks to quickly copy a full item path to the clipboard using the shortcut keys Ctrl+Alt+C. It’s probably most useful when you need to quickly make a list of a few...
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