Pieter is Technical Marketing Manager for Sitecore Netherlands and owner of Gaatverweg.nl. He has more than ten years experience with software developing in multiple programming languages and with different Content Management Systems. Before joining Sitecore Pieter was a lead developer for multiple Sitecore and .Net projects, he joined Sitecore in 2011 as an Solution Architect in The Netherlands, after two years as an Solution Architect he joined the Technical Marketing department. In the role as Techinical Marketing Manager he is responsible for the Global MVP program and the Sitecore technical branding strategy. You can follow Pieter on twitter: @pieterbrink123 or Google+
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Posts by Pieter

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Today we are happy to announce that NewGuid.Net is online. Newguid.net will be a weblog about Sitecore Development and sharing knowledge.  At this point all articles on NewGuid are the combination of all the articles from the personal weblogs of; Mark van Aalst and Pieter Brinkman. We are willing to crossposts Sitecore articles and have guest More Info »

Sitecore Recognizes Exceptional Technical Community Leaders From Around the World

Sitecore MVP 2011

We want to congratulate and thank all Sitecore MVP’s of 2011! MVPs Recognized for Active Community Involvement in Advancing Web Strategies San Francisco – April 10, 2012 – Sitecore today announced the 2011 Sitecore Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). The program recognizes exceptional technical community leaders who serve as catalysts for change and More Info »

Sitecore Webinar: Template Architecture

This article is based on a Dutch webinar that I presented march 2012. You can watch the recording on Youtube. Webinar Highlights Example Template Architecture

Sitecore: Creating Fieldtype External link only

external link fieldtype

During an Sitecore .Net development training I was ask if there is a fieldtype for an external link. The answer (of course) is; “Yes, general link”. With general link you can create a external link and many other types of links.  But what if you want to create a field in which More Info »

Sitecore Webinar: Using Sitecore Rocks

Sitecore Rocks Webinar

Last month I gave a (Dutch) webinar about developing for Sitecore with the Visual Studio 2010 plugin Sitecore Rocks. You can watch the webinar on Youtube. In this webinar I builded a website from scratch in 30 minutes only using Sitecore Rocks

Escape characters / words in a Sitecore query

escape character

There are a few characters and words you need to escape while using Sitecore query. You can escape special characters wrapping them in a #. For example a hyphen in a query needs to be escaped. Example string query = "/sitecore/content//*[@#site-title#=’Example Value’]"; In the previous example we use the single quote (‘) More Info »

Converting .mrt reports from OMS to DMS

In this article I’m going to explain how to convert .mrt reports from the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite (Sitecore 6.4) to the Sitecore Digital Marketing System (Sitecore 6.5). Report related changes between OMS and DMS Both the OMS and the DMS use .mrt reports for Analitics reporting. There are two mayor changes More Info »

Sitecore ECM: How to extend personalization

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratch

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratchCheck the default subscriber profile by clicking the E-Mail Campaign node and go to the content folder. In the Implementation Details section check the selected profile in the Default Subsciber Profile field. By default this will More Info »

Sitecore ECM: How to create a e-mail template from Scratch – Part II

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratch

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratchIn this post I will extend the basic e-mail template for Sitecore ECM with a title and text listing. With this e-mail template the business user can create new Title and Text items within the page-editor More Info »

Sitecore ECM: How to create a e-mail template from Scratch – Part I

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratch

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Sitecore ECM: Custom email template from scratchIn this post I will create a e-mail template for ECM from scratch. This article is based on a Webinar (in Dutch) I did about the Email Campaign Manager (ECM) you can see the Webinar on More Info »

Firefox disable plugin compatibility check

To disable the plugin compatibility check for Firefox 3.6 follow these steps: Open Firefox In the address bar type “about:config” On the page click I’ll be careful, I promise! Right click and select new –> Boolean Enter the preference name: extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 and press OK Select False and press OK Now you can More Info »

Sitecore Rules Engine: How to create an insert option rule

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule Engine

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule EngineYou can automatically add a insert option using a insert option rule in the Sitecore Rule Engine. The ‘case’: In our Sitecore content tree we have a Meta-Data folder where we store al our meta-data information. The Meta-Data folder More Info »

Sitecore Rules Engine: How to remove conditions and actions

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule Engine

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule EngineWhen using the Sitecore Rules Engine you don’t want your business user to see all the Conditions and Actions. Conditions and Actions are also items (everything is a Item ) so you can apply security on them. Deny a More Info »

Sitecore Rules Engine: How to create a custom condition

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule Engine

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Extending Sitecore Rule EngineIn this How to I will build a custom condition for the Sitecore Rules Enginge. This How To is a proof of concepts based on a webinar (in Dutch)  about the Rules Engine. I presented this webinar earlier this More Info »