This article is based on a Dutch webinar that I presented august 2012 and will refer to the video recording, slides, the How to documentation and used resources. The video You can watch the recording on Youtube. The slides The slides of the webinar are in English and are posted on Slideshare How to The code used in the webinar is from the Sitecore how to series; How to Track External Links with DMS. In the webinar I explain how the processor More Info »

Last week I gave a webinar (in Dutch) about Lucene. During the webinar I showed how to create indexes, a custom crawler and showed some basic search logic. The video is posted below. The sample code used will be available in a short while. Want to receive a reminder when sample code is published? Subscribe to the RSS feed, maillinglist (in the right sidebar) or follow us on Twitter; @new_guid

Basically this post is a recap of the “Sitecore and Continuous Integration” webinar, with some extra details about certain topics. The goal of continuous integration is to push every little piece of new software to next environments, the last step being production. Along this way, you want your software to be merged, compiled and tested. This way of developing has been around for a while with standard ASP .NET software. The problem with Sitecore is that it also heavily relies on the More Info »

Today Lucas Bol gave the first Dutch Sitecore guest Webinar. The subject of this webinar was continuous integration with Sitecore based on open source products. The video is in Dutch and posted below. In the next few days Lucas will post his documentation and explanation of the webinar in English. Follow us on Twitter @new_guid or subscribe to our RSS feed if you want an update when this is posted.  

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

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

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 be Profiles/Subscriber: You can find the different profiles in the Profiles folder located at /sitecore/system/Settings/Security/Profiles/Subscriber in the Core database. The Subscriber profile item is based on the Subscriber template. Open More Info »

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 (Sitecore 6.4 and higher) or the content-editor (all versions of Sitecore). This article is a follow-up article of the Sitecore ECM: How to create a Email template from Scratch – More Info »

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 YouTube.       We build a custom template the same way that we build a page. First we will create the templates, than we will create the presentation components More Info »

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 is organized in folders which contains meta-data items based on a template called Standard Text. What we want to achieve is that when a new folder is created within the More Info »

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 user Read access on a Condition or Action and the user will not see them in the Rule Set Editor. Create the role Deny Conditions Open the Role Editor and More Info »

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 year and you can watch the webinar on Youtube by clicking this link. Before we start writing code I’ll explain the business case we are trying to resolve. The ‘case’: More Info »