Cleaning up the log files
Since upgrading to Sitecore 8 one thing that I have noticed is that the log files can be quite noisey. In particular when the default log file is set to INFO this line is written a lot… and I mean a L
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Fortis Object Mapping Performance - Part II
Last week I wrote a blog on Fortis Object Mapping Performance, I have a few updates! Kam pointed out a flaw in my original code. I populated an array of Fortis objects, but I did not read out a field
Fortis Object Mapping Performance
After the post on Glass Mapper by Konstantin Cherkasov performance, and the follow up by Kam on Synthesis Object Mapping Performance I thought I’d run a quick test of Fortis in a similar situation. Ko
Moving My Blog - Adventures in Hexo
I’ve had a pretty busy start to the year, moving house, visiting family back in the UK and at Lightmaker we have been launching some of the biggest implementations in the companies history! Combined w
Sitecore 8 and SOLR Upgrading
Just read a great post by Jon Stoneman at Sequence on how to get Sitecore 8 working with Solr. Their experiences are very similar to mine, but I came across some other “gotchas” that I wanted to share
Sitecore MVC Custom Caching - Vary by External Data
Sitecore’s caching system is very powerful and when tuned right can help to create an implementation that performs well under load, which always keeps the clients happy! There are a number of great bl
Unit Testing with Sitecore and Fortis - Part 1
This post is the start of a series of articles looking at unit testing using Sitecore and Fortis. There are already a lot of great posts on unit testing with Sitecore using fakes and other tools, so w
Sitecore - Sorting by Date with SOLR
With the introduction of Item Buckets and the fantastic Sitecore Search API in Sitecore 7, we are using the search API more and more to get lists of content. Recently I was working on a site that had
Using Require to Organize Your Sitecore Javascript
One of the problems when implementing a Sitecore website is how to include your JavaScript files. Each rendering/sublayout has the potential for custom JavaScript to enable the functionality for that
Fixing the All Templates Index Field
One of the really nice features in Fortis is the ability to be able to search based on template type. Because we create an interface for every template in Sitecore, we can use the full inheritance tre