Blog Posts

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 while the module does this out of the box it has a gotcha to it; it won't remove items from the drop list that do not have a version in the context language.

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 of any page in your Sitecore installation.

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, IIS, Virtual Machines, etc... My wife's typical usage is email and web browsing. We are not gamers at all; not even solitaire! The most graphic intense application I use would be Google Earth.

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 difficult than one would expect from a Search product!

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. We encountered an issue where Sitecore media library items, mainly PDF files, were not making it into the index. We figured it must be a filter of some sort blocking access to it and this proved to be the case.

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!

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 is my current workflow, which is a work in progress.