Hedgehog Development

Yesterday Alex Shyba stopped by the Sitecore Virtual User Group to discuss some of the coolest and newest things included in Sitecore 7. 

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Deploying to a Sitecore environment safely and seamlessly can be challenging. The main reason for this is the amount of time it takes to deploy item updates. There are a number of strategies that have been developed to prevent this from being a problem in large production sites. These work well, but are beyond the scope of this post. I would like to cover a deployment process that uses the Sitecore Azure platform and TDS to seamlessly deploy a site.

 

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Many people request that TDS supports Duplicate Items. We have and still are very reluctant to support this feature. Sean Kearney explains why we do not want to support Duplicate Items in Sitecore, in his most recent blog. 

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We have released a new version of Team Development for Sitecore. This version fixes many of the issues dealing with icons that were reported. Read more for further details.

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Joshuwa Jenkins has been working on an ongoing blog series entitled "Working With Sitecore" in today's blog post Josh discusses his use of TDS. He goes over a lot of the key features that is included with TDS. Read more...

Check out this month's Sitecore Virtual User Group on customizing the Sitecore Page Editor. Read more...

Sitecore is a very extensible and flexible CMS that allows you to implement and enforce all kinds of business rules. But just because you can, does not always mean you should. URL generation for SEO is one example of what I think should be left to the editors.

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View the recording of January's Sitecore Virtual User Group. Read more...

When developing on Sitecore, using TDS, we have to install a lot of update packages. We don't use the usual package installer but the Update Installation Wizard. The only issue here is managing the numerous URLs that each project has.  We decided there needed to be an easy way to manage all the URLs and share them with your team.

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Facebook's new Graph Search will make it easier than ever for brands, that already market well, to reach more people and further their brand. This newly announced feature seems like a great way for brands to more easily reach new potential customers through customers that already like the brand. 

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After my blog last week, I got a lot of feedback asking why I would do this in a Sitecore setting. There are many reasons why I would rather use TFS than GIT, posing the question how do you continue to create efficient solutions with these problems? Well the answer is obvious. Like any good developer you make your tools do what you want them to do. See why I made a Sitecore iOS application using TFS not GIT.

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On January 3^rd Justin Dearing stopped by the LI.NET User Group to give us a look into MongoDB. Justin is a Mongo Master with years of experience using the product. Check out his talk and Powerpoint slides.

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Recently, I crossed into the Apple ecosystem to write an iOS app, coming from a purely .NET background, it was a bit inconvenient to be forced to use GIT. I've heard similar complaints from a lot of people but don't worry, I am here to help minimize your pain. This post will show you how to integrate your iPhone/iPad iOS project that uses GIT with TFS.

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One of the frequent cases we run into is that a developer doesn't know if our latest release of TDS is the same version they have installed. Checking your version number of TDS is incredibly simple, learn how.

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One of the problems Hedgehog noticed, with Sitecore MVC, was using modules and components developed for WebForms implementation was difficult and costly in an MVC implementation. As we've been developing WebForms for years, it is essential that we solve this issue. Check out our solution.

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With all the hype about Sitecore E-Commerce Services and how it is helping us advance Customer Engagement. We figured what better time to get Nick Wesselman, CTO of Active Commerce, in to speak on Active Commerce and how we can use it to take back our customers.

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This year Hedgehog decided to do something different in terms of their holiday gifts. With all the devastation that has inflicted Long Island recently, we felt it was only right to give to those in need.

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Add a Hedgehog to your holiday with one of these do it yourself tree decorations.

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On Sunday I went to a Hurricane Sandy Relief concert co-sponsored by Hedgehog. The event was a huge success, drawing a large crowd with great music and food, and most importantly making an impact on the relief of the hurricane victims. It was a great event to be a part of and I'm glad and thankful I went.

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Hedgehog announces the debut of its newest product. Check it out inside.

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Team Development for Sitecore has finally been released go download it now!

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We did an exclusive preview of TDS 4.0. Check out the recording now!

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After a long wait TDS 4.0 is finally slated to be released. Before it is released check out a sneak peak of all the newest and coolest features.

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Are you tired of just hearing about the big three features included in TDS 4.0? Well Sean Holmesby from our Australian partner, Igloo Digital, just blogged about things you might have missed in TDS.

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The Hedgehog Development office is closing early today for our summer fishing trip. We will be back in the office bright and early tomorrow, making all your dreams a reality.

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Tomorrow at noon EDT Kevin Buckley will be presenting on Federated Authentication with Sitecore and the Windows Identity Foundation. This is sure to be an interesting presentation so don't miss out.

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In the final installment of A Hedgehog Prototype Using Sitecore MVC  Charlie wraps up his analysis with views, custom pipelines, and the MVC controller. Also, Charlie has included the source code for this prototype as well. Read more...

In part 2 of the blog series, Hedgehog Prototype Using Sitecore MVC Charlie goes over his implementation and how he leveraged Sitecore's support of MVC to create his solution. Read more...

The release of Sitecore 6.6 will tightly integrate all the functionality of MVC 3. Hedgehog set out to determine exactly how to leverage this new functionality to help us efficiently deliver the best Sitecore solutions to our clients. Hedgehog put Charles Turano on the case. In part one of this three part series, titled A Hedgehog Prototype using Sitecore MVC" Charlie sets the groudwork for how to best leverage Sitecore MVC for our clients.

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Even Hedgehogs dreams, we just like to turn those dreams into a reality.

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The announcement that Sitecore 6.6 will support MVC has taken the community by storm. Everyone wants to know exactly what that means. Well, in July's Sitecore Virtual User Group David Morrison let us see exactly what the Sitecore MVC support entails....

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Our Sitecore MVPs Charlie and Sean recently did a demo of TDS to all Sitecore partners. We recorded the demo to share with the world.

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On August 1st Hedgehog officially has opened its first European office, in Sofia Bulgaria.  Opening an office in Bulgaria will help us stay in contact with our clients all around the world. Read the official press release....

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