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Module Builder Database Changes as a Workaround

April 26, 2012

On a recent project I developed two module builder dynamic modules. I was rushed and pushed them to completion without much thought as I entered the names of fields, selected data types and required field validation or some simple regular expression validation rules. I hit save and started to enter some test data. Everything looked great and I was done ...

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Brent Taylor

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Module Builder Review Part Two

February 10, 2012

Time to put my earlier Module Builder review into sharper context.

I'm currently developing the architecture for a site which involves numerous custom modules, client user forms, and the connection of data items created in these custom modules to Events in the Events Module. (Not to mention I'll be adding 20+ custom fields to the Events Module – some that ...

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CMS Blog Visual Studio Sitefinity CMS Development
Does the Module Builder Module Deliver (on Building Modules)?

February 03, 2012

How's that for setting an expectation?

This is Brent Taylor, Sitefinity expert for PlanetMagpie Web Development. I had really high hopes for the new Module Builder module introduced in Sitefinity 4. And it delivers on many of them. However, I feel Sitefinity might have rushed this to production a bit. I'm really glad it's here; the upgrades are very welcome! ...

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Would Moving Your Sitefinity-Based Website to its Own Server Double Performance?

September 21, 2011

The other day we blogged about our website slowing down. And what we did to speed it back up.

We went through a bunch of different optimizing steps, tuning up the site's performance bit by bit.

Last week we took the next logical step: Moving the PlanetMagpie.com website (and its CMS database) to dedicated Web servers.

Boosting Sitefinity's Performance, ...

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Brent Taylor

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Performance Insights for Sitefinity-Based Websites

July 15, 2011

Recently we noticed our website was slowing down. Just us? No; we analyzed the download speeds and sure enough, overall load time had decreased. So we looked at the pages for what could be causing a performance snag.

Turns out, there are all sorts of places where we COULD improve performance! So many in fact, we made a list. And ...

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Exploit Discovered Affecting ASP.NET - Sitefinity Customers Affected

September 30, 2010

If you use ASP.NET in your office, or your website runs on Sitefinity CMS? Read this.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft ASP.NET. This vulnerability can allow a (dedicated) attacker to attack your website (if you use an ASP.NET CMS like Sitefinity) over and over. Until they gain access to its encryption keys.

What does that mean? It means ...

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Brent Taylor

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Auto Generate sitemap.xml for your Sitefinity CMS.

July 23, 2010

Since the entire page structure of Sitefinity is data, it's straight forward to implement a sitemap.xml generator. The following steps will require general programming knowledge and website administration familiarity.

Create a robots.txt file and use it to reference the sitemap generator http handler. Copy the following information into the robots.txt file and save it in your websites root folder. Search ...

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Sitefinity CMS Development Application Development
CMS Upgrade Notes

April 21, 2010
As I get ready for yet another product update on the Sitefinity CMS platform, I reminded myself a check list would be nice to have. So here is the list of items I go down when performing a software update or upgrade of a production Sitefinity website. This applies to versions 3.4 to 3.7 of Sitefinity CMS.
- Stop all activity ...
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Brent Taylor

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Visual Studio 2010

August 15, 2009

A space odyssey. Are we really turning this corner. Where is HAL? and Dave? Did the mergence of man and machine occur in any way close to how Arthur C. Clarke described it? As the thinking machine seeing life as a threat to its existence...

We in the world of software are inspired by the thinking machine. How do we ...

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Custom Developed Modules

August 15, 2009

Sitefinity Modules are where the real power lies in this system. Inheriting from the base class, "Generic Content", we can develop a custom data interface for any purpose. Currently I am working on extensions to existing modules for new meta data items (i.e. data columns) and giving these feature rich user experiences in the admin user interface (UI).

I developed ...

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CMS Blog Sitefinity CMS Development

Boosting Sitefinity's Performance, ...