• Health Check builds with Continuous Integration - How big and how often these needs to be?

  November 10, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  Background While refactoring the TFS and Continuous Integration struture of a couple projects, one thing toke my attention: Health Check builds were stealing most of the building times, which for me was representing long build queues to wait. The reason they were crowding the queue is because they were taking a long time to complete […]

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• Automatic check-up of Sitecore Server Roles with Powershell

  September 23, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  This week I had a boring demand of checking up a Sitecore installation against the Excel spreadsheet provided by Sitecore, to make sure all configs are enabled or disabled according to the Server Role. You can get cockeyed by doing this manually, so of course I looked for a way to automatize it. Ended up discovering […]

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• Less than a week to the Sitecore Symposium 2016 in New Orleans!

  September 8, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  I’m totally excited for the days to come – starts next week the Sitecore Symposium and MVP Summit 2016, in New Orleans. Will be my first experience in an official Sitecore event. Great opportunity to in person meetings with representatives of Sitecore, another partners and services providers. Particularly exciting is the chance to get together and taste what another Sitecore MVPs […]

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• Slowness with Custom Properties on .NET Security Provider

  August 22, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 1

  If you ever used the standard .NET Security Provider with Sitecore, you may love how easy it is to create and use Custom Profile Properties, where data can be easily saved at user profiles. But a huge issue can emerge if you attempt to retrieve users at your database by one of these custom properties. The Problem Let’s say you have a […]

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• Faster Sitecore for Development - All in a single include

  July 14, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  Since Sitecore 8, load times after builds are getting slower due to the high usage of Speak at the new UI. There is a great post by Kam Figy that summarizes reasons and how to improve this performance. Tired of having to get back to his article repeating the steps for all my project, I decided to isolate everything in a single […]

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• SPEAK: ItemTreeView with multiple Roots

  April 22, 2016 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  I’ve being studying SPEAK recently for a module I’m building, and it’s being a lot of fun so far. Of course, when learning anything that imposes a different paradigm, it’s common to get stuck with “simple” things that, in another programming realities, are easy to accomplish. And then it happened to me: the ItemTreeView component offers exactly the UI experience […]

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• Mass data processing with Rules and Actions - The Sitecore Rule Processor Module

  November 13, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  One of the most laborious things in any CMS, not different in Sitecore, is the mass processing and transformation of data. It’s specially remarkable when you spend a day or two doing manual selection and edition of individual items for any reason. First time I felt that it was so painful, I ended up obsessed for a tool that could minimally automatize these kind of jobs. A bit of […]

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• Avoiding IIS Restarts in a separated code environment, now with Sitecore Rocks

  September 18, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  This post is to bring some recent experiences from my last projects, as a continuation of my post “Avoiding IIS restarts with Robocopy in a Post Build event“. At that time I was proposing a post-building event triggering robocopy, which did the trick for that particular situation. Some time later I had access at my team to “CopySauce”, a software that keeps watching […]

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• Advanced display of SVG Images in Sitecore

  July 31, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 0

  SVG Images are basically vector images (coordinates, objects and properties) with data that can be manipulated with CSS styling – check out this article for details on how that works. In short, to take advantage of CSS styling over SVG files, you must throw the XML content of the SVG file, directly into the HTML markup. So instead of the traditional […]

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• Using Rules to replace spaces by dashes in Sitecore 7.5 in 3 simple steps

  April 28, 2015 Rodrigo Peplau 2

  In this article I show how to use rules to rename items so, every time an item is saved, spaces gets replaced by dashes. Advantage of using rules is that you can visually setup different kind of conditions, without having to hardcode them at your code. 1) Create the Action that triggers the item renaming In your master […]

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