Book review: Team topologies

Starting from Conway's law "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure"…

Book review: Release it

Design and Deploy produciton ready software - Inspirring read with some great takeaways about how to develop software in a modern day organization…

Rebus - Breaking the context - to send immediatley

I've been using a library called Rebus to handle everything in regard to message communication between services, that are using Azure Servicebus as their transport layer. Rebus makes it super easy to implement a Command/Event architecture by exposing an easy pattern for sending messages on a bus and listening for messages on a bus.  This post is just a tiny wrap up of an issue that I've encountered a few times. here goes: …

Debugging you logger (log4net)

So this is a thing that I've come across a few times lately - How do I log, when my logger isn't working. So the scenario I've been in was to create a new appender to the log4net framework, that ships…

Changing paths

Past experienceFor the last 9 years, ive been working as a software consultant, primary focused on implementing customers sites in a CMS. Since 2007 that CMS has been Sitecore. Ive always been a keen…

Condevdk

1 day conference – Danish - $50 - devdk.orgA year ago, three web developers from Odense thought that something was missing in their town. They thought that the city needed a conference focused on web…

Conferences 2014

One of the methods that i use to learn more stuff, and one of the methods that usually gives me the most inspiration for my everyday work life, is going to conferences. I like attending them, and…

Sitecore DND training

Last week I went to the Sitecore HQ in Copenhagen, to get some upgraded skills on the Sitecore DMS package. In my current position, I haven’t really tried working with the DMS part of the CMS. I’ve…

Doublicate title tags! WTF

This post isn’t a Sitecore only post. I faced a problem today, when one of my colleagues told me that one of the latest sites we had launched contained multiple title tags in the head part of the…

Sitecore MVP - 1st year gone

January 28 2014, Sitecore revealed the 2014 MVP list, and guess what, i was re-elected to the title :-) This also means that I’ve been a MVP for one full year, and just thought that I would blog a…

Removing a form from an item

This is the final post surrounding the Webforms For Marketeers module. This time the challange is to remove a form Again, once you have inserted it. The module doesnt come with a possibility to do…

Automatic Sitecore item serialization

When working with Sitecore in a multi developer environment, you need a method for sharing items across your solutions. At Oxygen Software we have decided to use Item Serialization for the purpose. We…

Patching the Linkmanager

Just a quick note on patching the linkmanager in Sitecore. We have had some problems when trying to do the normal patching of the linkManager element in web.config, so i contacted support, for a…

Using Sitecore API to get file icons

Ever noticed how Sitecore get many nice thumbnails of various file formats in the media library? And in the filebrowser?I just had a project, where I was to list files from a network share. The list…

Tip of the week, week 34 - Nuget package manager

NuGet package manager is one of the newer features that has come to Visual Studio startig from Visual Studio 2010 SP1. The feature enables you to download and utilize popular open source packages into…

First blogpost

Finaly, im starting a blog. This blog will be used for writing tips and tricks, that ive stumbled upon while working with .NET and Sitecore. I hope the blog can help others if they meet some of the…