Well it’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post, if I said my dog ate my files would that fly? I didn’t think so, however what I do have (and had completely forgotten to post – thank you for… Continue Reading
On Wednesday I presented at the Sitecore Virtual User Group and demonstrated the CI/CD solution I blogged about in November. I wanted to add an update, to what I presented and blogged about already, which solves a problem that’s cropped up with the process… Continue Reading
Recently I was building a new custom field for Sitecore which stored in the same manner as any of the multilist fields (a list of Sitecore ID’s). One of the tasks with getting this custom field up and running was… Continue Reading
So yesterday (well early hours this morning!) I posted about extending the IQueryable<T> which Sitecore translates and runs as a query against the search index of your choice. The implementation in the previous post only catered for IEnumerable objects which used the Enumerable.Contains extension,… Continue Reading
Recently I’ve been working making Fortis support Sitecore 7’s new search features. While implementing and testing all the different LINQ to Sitecore filtering options I found that one of my requirements wasn’t possible out of the box. I wanted to… Continue Reading
Recently I presented at the Sitecore user group in London regarding continuous integration and delivery. Basic instructions of how we implemented our CI/CD pipeline with regards to Sitecore can be found in a previous blog the presentation can also be… Continue Reading
Recently I’ve been updating Fortis to support Sitecore MVC and wanted to write some unit tests, however one of the issues I ran into was that fact Fortis has a huge dependency on the Sitecore context and the classes associated with… Continue Reading
Today at Lightmaker myself and James Dartnell (@j4ddie) were looking into Sitecore MVC, specifically how Sitecore determines what model to use for a rendering view. Currently Sitecore allows you to create a Model item where you state what class and… Continue Reading
So recently I was upgrading one of our Sitecore 6.5 instances up to Sitecore 7 and came a cropper in one of the upgrades because the Global.asax file was included and overwrote the one we had written! Given I didn’t… Continue Reading
Update: Fortis has moved to https://github.com/Fortis-Collection/fortis Not too long ago I did a presentation at the London Sitecore User Group where I demonstrated something we had been working on at Lightmaker. That something was Fortis, a strongly typed model of… Continue Reading