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Turn any Sitecore package into a NuGet package
I recently posted this idea on Twitter: @kevinobee @kayeenl Btw, I was thinking that it shouldn’t be too hard to make a cmd line util that converts #Sitecore packages into #NuGet — Robin Hermanussen...
View ArticleIndex page editor proof pages with Sitecore 7
After competing in the Sitecore hackathon last weekend, I got excited. So when Kyle Heon posted a particular Tweet today, I immediately knew what I would be doing this evening; create a new (small)...
View ArticleUnit testing with Sitecore.FakeDb and deserialized data
Recently, I watched the excellent SVUG presentation by Pavel Veller on YouTube. I was impressed by the way Sitecore.FakeDb works. It’s much easier to configure than my FixtureDataProvider, has tighter...
View ArticleValidating your code references to serialized data
Sitecore developers often need to reference content items from their code. E.g.: a template or branch ID for an import function or reading a global setting that’s stored in the content tree. Using IDs...
View ArticleSitecore Code Challenge 1
Someone once told me about Pex for fun. And ever since, I occasionally visit the website to solve some C# coding puzzles. Essentially, it requires you to implement some code and have unit tests for it...
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Generating Sitecore code without TDS
In the past, I’ve used my own Compiled Domain Model module on projects. It generates wrapper classes based on your Sitecore templates (among other things). But recently, I’ve been working with Glass...
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Monitor your Sitecore server’s health
Having a website up and running reliably requires that you monitor its health. You should always be using a monitoring tool like Pingdom (there are many others). That way, you can get notified when the...
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Post content audit messages to Slack from Sitecore
The Sitecore community has certainly embraced Slack. If you want to join your fellow Sitecore developers, be sure to follow the link and get it up and running. It’s great to see so many people from the...
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Generating Sitecore code without TDS and with Rainbow
About a year ago, I posted about a way to generate code from your Sitecore data without the need to use TDS. Since then, a new version of Unicorn was released, that supports a new serialization format...
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Check your code with Unicorn serialized data
I was looking into Roslyn recently and figured that it would be useful for checking whether Sitecore ID’s and paths that are used in code are correct or not. I wanted it to check this with the Unicorn...
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