Tips & Tricks: Sitecore Log file naming

When I started working with Sitecore, I always wondered how Sitecore names its logs. Sometimes you would see a date only as the name e.g. log.20170214.txt and sometimes a date and a time e.g. log.20170214.165444.txt. Keep in mind that Sitecore uses Log4Net as the logging framework so you'll need to read more about it if you're …

NAnt (A build tool) [CI]

About NAnt NAnt is one of the oldest build/deployment tools that you can find online. It was created as a .NET build tool based on Ant, which is a build tool for Java. In NAnt's sourceforge page you can see archived initial versions since 2001 and by looking for pages/blogs/questions about NAnt you could see …

Refreshing Selected Sitecore Item from code

Refreshing the selected Sitecore Item from code to load it's newly generated children items

Multi-languages (alternate links) Sitemap Generator for Sitecore

Sample code and a brief description for generating sitemap.xml using google's alternate links' specification

Introduction to Continuous Integration [CI]

I will be briefly explaining and introducing Continuous Integration. What it is, why is it used and what it consists of. This is not a tutorial of any kind, just a very brief introduction.

GULP: A Task Runner Tool

A very brief introduction about the task runner tool GULP. What it is and how to set it up.

My experience with GIT Clients

A year ago when I started working with GIT for the first time, I searched for a client that was good enough for me to start with. Luckily my colleague in that project was using GIT Extensions. I found it excellent to start with. But now a little more than a year later, I'm still …

Extending Sitecore Field Types

A step-by-step description of how to extend a Sitecore Field Type

Tracking SQL-Server DB Objects Versions

A simple way to keep track of DB objects versions (DDL updates) in SQL Server