Monthly Archives: April 2010

The current version of this blog post is at: http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2010/11/Add-a-Command-to-the-Sitecore-Item-Context-Menu.aspx During my dreamcore 2010 presentation, “Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Sitecore”, I showed an item context menu to copy the full path of the selected item … Continue reading →

For the current edition of this blog post, see: http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2010/11/Dynamic-Source-Property-for-Sitecore-Image-Fields.aspx I recently tried to assist a developer on the Sitecore Developer Network forums in a thread about applying different values for the Source property of an image field (which should … Continue reading →

Introduction This post describes one technique that you can use the Sitecore Web Content Management System to embed rendering in Rich Text Editor (RTE) fields. CMS users can position videos, maps, Flash resources, and other multimedia and dynamic items using the … Continue reading →

I just wanted to say a personal "thanks!" to everyone who attended dreamcore 2010 in North America. The event was a tremendous success, as evidenced by #dreamcore reaching status as the #2 topic in Boston on twitter during the event. … Continue reading →

For the current edition of this blog post, see: http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2010/11/Content-Editor-Warning-to-Display-Publishing-Status.aspx At dreamcore 2010, I was prepared to show how to add a warning to the Content Editor in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS, but I ran out of time. I based … Continue reading →

The current edition of this post is at: http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2010/11/Sitecore-Mouse-and-Keyboard-Shortcuts.aspx Or for short: http://bit.ly/cOYG9F    

Slashdot/SDTimes: "Midori" Concepts Materialize In .NET (article [background on Midori]) “We’re seeing a gulf opening up right now between serial and parallel programming; only a small minority of rocket-scientist types can actually write code that works effectively in a parallel, … Continue reading →

The current edition of this blog post is at: http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2010/11/All-About-Sitecore-Scheduling-Agents-and-Tasks.aspx This post provides information about techniques that you can use to schedule processes with the Sitecore ASP.NET Web Content Management System. Introduction There are at least three ways to schedule … Continue reading →

Slashdot/Singularity Hub: Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik’s Cube In 12 Seconds Based on the fact that many developers working with the Sitecore .NET CMS apparently share some common interests (Commodore, probably Lego, robotics, and/or Rubik’s cubes), I thought that some … Continue reading →