Best Sitecore Practises for Front-End Developers
This post is meant as a brief preparation guide for front-end developers to get up-to-speed with the issues relating to writing front-end code that is to be integrated into Sitecore. It has been collated from a few sources that I have read on the web, such as the good work done by Rob Cherney, Sean Kearney and Mark Ursino (see references at the bottom of this post) and incorporates my own personal experiences gained from working with...
It’s the Sharing, Stupid!
Much has been said about the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook in the last week for $19 billion dollars. Many reasons have been offered about why Facebook would want to buy WhatsApp, and these reasons seem to revolve around being able earn revenue from WhatsApp through advertising and other means. It seems to me that many of the opinions expressed about the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook seem to centre on being able to justify the...
MAC Viewstate Error When Clicking on a Submit Button
We are building a website using .NET Framework 2.0 running in integrated mode on a single 64bit Windows 2008 Server machine. In our website on the login form it is possible to post it twice by pressing Enter and clicking on the login Submit button. Before we fixed this issue ASP.NET returned the following error when the form was posted twice. Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster,...
Centralized file storage for a load-balanced Telligent website
To set up a centralized file location for a Telligent Community website solution a new configuration file needs to be created. The file needs to be named communityserver_override.config and placed in the root of the website. In order to override the location for the paths to the shared folder to be used for file storage this new configuration file would need to contain something similar to the following XML: <?xml...
Modifying Telligent Widgets in a Load-Balanced Environment
Something to consider when working with Telligent Evolution is that when a site powered by Telligent Evolution is in a load-balanced environment site administrators may experience issues when configuring widgets if the environment is not set up correctly. The reason for this is because each Telligent Evolution site on each of the boxes in the web farm has its own internal cache. Modifying a widget when in edit mode, saving the...
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