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Web Forms for Marketers - Database Configuration

This is more of a 'note to self' type post, but I am sure some may find it helpful... When you install " Web Forms for Marketers v2 " it configures itself to use SQLLite. It provides a sample configuration on how to use SQL server, but...
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My Sitecore Development Environment

This post if mainly in response to a question that was asked, and subsequent tweet , during my session at Dreamcore 2010. The shortened version of the question was essentially: How do I debug? The answer I gave was that I "Attach to the W3WP Process...
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Sitecore friendly html, css and javascript

Disclaimer: While some of these guidelines may be applied to other Content Management Systems, or .net web forms in general, this is based on my experience with Sitecore. A common approach of having a CMS based web site implemented usually goes as follows...
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Sitecore's Webforms for Marketers (v2) Language Specific DropList

Sitecore's Webforms for Marketers (v2) module is pretty impressive out of the gate. There was an issue, however, with a recent project that had a few different languages. We needed a Droplist in the form that showed a list of items from Sitecore and...
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Sitecore's Webforms for Marketers (v2) Gotchas

I've recently been doing some work with the Web Forms for Marketers (2.0) module and I must say I was presently surprised! The first version of this module was a rather good first pass, but it typically came up short when we wanted to use it. Version...
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Simple 404 with Sitecore

404's in Sitecore can be very simple or extremely complicated with site independent designs and functionality. While a blog post on the later would be a worthwhile blog post, this post will cover a very simple example of how to set the StatusCode...
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New Developer Rig Ordered and Shipped!

In my last post I wrote what I planned on building for my home developer rig. A few changes were made. * I went with an extra hard drive and I will run RAID 0. * I measured the compartment in my desk where I planned on putting my case and lo and behold...
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New Home PC / Developer Rig

In honor of Windows 7, and my increasing frustration with my 4 year old DELL computer, I figured I would pony up and build myself a nice developer rig. Even though it is my home computer my typical usage is work related; Visual Studio(s), SQL Server,...
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Harvesting data from a Coveo index

I’ve been working peripherally with Coveo for the past couple years now. It hasn’t been until recently that I’ve actually needed to start diving into the “API” to try and harvest the data. This, however, proved to be more...
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Coveo with Sitecore Media

Out of the box, Coveo does a pretty good job of crawling your website and providing search capabilities. In this particular installation we aren't using the "Sitecore connector" we are simply letting coveo do its thing walking the site....
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Sitecore FieldRenderer Control and OverrideFieldValue

The FieldRenderer Control (Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls.FieldRenderer) has a method called OverrideFieldValue that takes a string and is supposed to be shown instead of the real fields value, but it doesn't work. It seems a fix would be to add in a...
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Editors, Sitecore, and SEO

Editors (and some sysadmins) that have been around IIS web sites for a few years seem to have a little trouble grasping what Sitecore can do for them. More specifically, they have trouble grasping what it is they don't need to do anymore! In the purest...
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Moved Domain Name

Almost two years after I thought about phasing out my online moniker I have done it. I have officially moved the carknee.com domain to seankearney.com. Redirects are in place and there shouldn't be any noticable change for the few people that read...
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Photo Management and Backup

This is a follow up post to " Photo Management " on how I am starting to organize my digital images. After looking around at some of my options (Picasa, Adobe products, buying an iMac, …) I have decided to take the cheap way out. Here...
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Sitecore Diagrams Part 2

We have been doing some pretty fun work with Sitecore 6 here at Hedgehog Development ... I started doing some work with Sitecore Template Diagrams a while back and I got to talking with some colleagues and we decided to take this to another level. While...
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