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Banner image for I'm Not Out of Order, TDS Isn't Out of Order, This Whole …. Solution Is Out of Order! Why Your Builds Are Not Deploying Without Errors. article

I had a real tricky issue this week as my newly built assemblies weren't being deployed to a dev environment. There were no errors. No warnings. There was even a message in the build output that the files I needed were in fact sent, but nothing showed up. Well, it all came down to a pesky developer playing around with the solution's configuration.

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Banner image for Sequencing and Content Pouring and Timelines, Oh My! article

What if you could save loads of project time by have your development and content teams work in parallel during the implementation of a CMS site, instead of worrying about that great big line in the sand where the keys are finally handed over? You can, by using the Content Driven Development Model. Save big bucks! Keep your staff happy! Come one, come all, and learn more!

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Banner image for The Publish Page URL Module for Sitecore Now Offers Media Library Support! article

About a year ago I released the Published Page URL module, which shows authors the actual public URL for pages - something that Sitecore doesn't do. Well, now it supports media library items, allowing you to get the final URL for PDFs, Documents, etc. in multisite, multilingual environments.

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Redirects can be managed in a few different ways, but when a client asked for hundreds of them to be authorable off the home page, well, that took my favourites out of the option list. This request is a little unique with the solution leveraging buckets and RedirectOnItemNotFound. 

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Banner image for Who Published That? When? Use My Publish History Module to Always Be In the Know! article

One of our clients asked me last week if I could find out when a specific page was published. This action gets recorded into the logs so you can always check there, but it's only retained for a few days. My Publish History module stores a permanent record on each item for when something was published, and by who.

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