Where can this Module be found? GitHub (open source) and Sitecore Marketplace We’re introducing our newest module for Sitecore which is called the Item URL Helper. The Item URL Helper adds two great features to the Content Manager that will … Continue reading
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Velir Developer Daniel DeLay is named 2011 Sitecore MVP
Velir is pleased to announce that our very own Daniel DeLay has been recognized by Sitecore as one of 2011’s Most Valuable Professionals. He is now the third Velir Developer to receive the honor. The award recognizes individuals who have made a bold impact within the Sitecore community and are leaders in their field. Continue reading
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Sitecore Edit Form
Where can the Module be found? Sitecore Marketplace In Sitecore’s Content Manager, performing actions such as a delete against many items can be very cumbersome. You need to right click each of the items and then click on the Delete … Continue reading
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Great idea! How about multi-edit similar to what’s available in Rocks? You could leverage FieldEditor’s UI for that…
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Great tool. This is one of those simple, but powerful features which will increase productivity significantly.
Another few ideas, – some could be covered by Alex multi-edit idea, could be:
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TimB says
Thanks Alex and Lars, you both have some great ideas! I’ll be in touch and we can discuss more. Glad you liked the module!
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Jack L says
Great work!
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Steve T says
Hi Tim, I have installed this module but the Edit tab only show up in common folder template. Can this be modified? Thanks
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Enhanced Template Builder
.Net developers at Velir have experience implementing the Enhanced Template Builder. Where can the Module be found? Sitecore Marketplace What is the Enhanced Template Builder The Enhanced Template Builder is a Sitecore Shared Source module that allows the user to … Continue reading
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Ivan Huang says
Great Job! The module saves a lot time while creating templates, very handy.
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Strategies for Mobile Applications and Sitecore Part 2
This is Part 2 of our blog post about how we used Sitecore to make a Mobile API. To recap, this single API is used to drive 4 different devices, iPhone, iPad, Andriod, and Blackberry. In the first part we … Continue reading
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VP says
Hi Daniel,
Your post is awesome with lot of information.
I am dealing with the same situation where we need to access sitecore content along with financial data from REST. REST is hosted on the main sitecore site. We have only one communication channel available between Mobile app/site to server via REST.svc. I already have setup the device with querystring(api=1). I was wondering what can be used as a layout? I have tried the .aspx with no success yet. Can you give me some more information about accessing the sitecore for API from REST? Is there a way to avoid direct sitecore access from the mobile app and still get the response in xml/c#/json object?We are doing this to get the Sitecore context to gain the benefit of sitecore resources rather than just accessing the content by targeting the field values.
Any help much appreciated,
Regards,
– VP
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Strategies for Mobile Applications and Sitecore Part 1
Recently Velir had the opportunity to build Mobile Applications for one of our very prominent clients. One of the challenges was an interest in supporting iPhone, Android, and Blackberry devices. Our content is stored in Sitecore, so we wanted to … Continue reading
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Nice note on REST as a design pattern. It’s good to have this foundational knowledge in mind.
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Its really a good post which increased my knowledge about how can I develop a mobile application and how should we started to think about it.
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Lazy Websites
We often build websites that showcase a large amount of high quality media in the form of images, text, and video. While this media makes for a compelling user experience it often comes at the cost of bandwidth in terms … Continue reading
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Great article guys. This really helped to crystalise my approach for the impending barfoot (Sitecore) site redesign. We deal in large amounts of heavy media all the time, listing photos, video, floorplans etc so this has been on my todo list for some time. Thanks for sharing your approach.
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Eloy Cortinez says
Very nice, I’m not so happy with the webservice part, I’ve always disliked wcf specially writing restful services with wcf …. I’m trying to implement that part with mvc inside sitecore. Restful webservices are so intuitive an elegant in mvc that I think it’s the way to go in this case.
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How to Improve Code Reusability Using C# Delegates
Delegates are a powerful, functional language feature of C# that are heavily utilized but rarely implemented by most developers who are not familiar of the advantages they give you. Similar to function pointers in C/C++, delegates in C# allow you … Continue reading
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Ethan says
Very interesting! Your use of delegates reminds me of the Strategy Pattern, but allows for much quicker and more concise implementation for “simpler” strategies because the developer doesn’t have to implement a whole interface which describes the “small” strategy and entire subclasses to implement the strategy. It’s definitely going into my repertoire of C# programming techniques.
I hope you don’t mind that I nitpick a little, and do correct me if I’m wrong, but I found your statement that “delegates in C# allow you to assign a type to a particular method signature” left me a little confused for a bit because “method signature” typically refers to the method’s name, order of parameters, and type of parameters. However, it seems the delegates assign not only the order and type of parameters but also the return type of the function, and it does not assign it a name. For me who doesn’t have much experience using delegates, it would have been much clearer to say “delegates in C# allow you to assign a method type to a particular order and type of parameters and return type”, so I wouldn’t mistakenly believe delegates restrict the method name.
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Published Item Comparer: Customization
In my last post I introduced the Published Item Comparer and showed how convenient it was to visually compare an item between databases. I also mentioned that the Published Item Comparer runs through a series of validations to determine differences … Continue reading
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When Developers Meet Clients: 10 Tips to Feel Confident Beyond your Code
No matter how killer your coding or design chops, some developers find themselves in situations where they have little or no experience presenting to their clients, especially in person. So what happens when you need to meet with a client that you usually work with remotely, or when that big new project hinges on your web team’s presentation to a prospective client? Hopefully, you’ll feel a bit more confident after reading these tips–which I’ve culled together from my experience as a project manager and senior designer attending jillions of web meetings over the last 14 years.
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Donald Cox says
I think this is implict in several of your points, but it has been something I’ve stumble on in the past.
Make sure you have explicit agreement on the team about what the ground rules are for:
- who makes what commitments (if any)
- whether and how we call a time-out to huddle
- whose lead are we following
- where to act on the unity versus diversity continuumThese I think would be things to cover in a team walkthrough or rehearsal.
In one project in particular, the team leader wanted our team members to act like we were all one big team and then was distressed when some of the team members expressed divergent opinions.
Congratulations on the first blog post. Good stuff. And good luck with the toddlers.
Daniel – Congratulations!! Well deserved.
Congratulations Daniel!!