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Banner image for Replacing Your Ssl Certificate in a Standalone Sitecore Environment article

If you've read my article, Providing External Access for the Xp Single Developer Installation, you'd know there was some certificate work to be done. Well, today's the day I need to replace these certs with new ones, so let's walk through the steps together.

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Banner image for Speeding up Sitecore Starts for Better Experiences, From Dev to Production article

Ok, using Falcon Heavy's engines as my banner is a little dramatic, but time is money, and having staff wait for Sitecore restarts can add up over an engagement of several months. I'm constantly looking for more ways to speed process up, so I've put together a couple of tips on speeding things along.

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Banner image for Managing a Multilingual Multisite Implementation With a Dedicated Domain for Each Language article

Ok if that title isn't clear enough, let me try again. Our new site has a dedicated domain for each language, so we need to configure the language switcher to point to a FQDN instead of a relative path. There are a few ways to do this, like using configs, but I'm going to show you show to manage this using the site's root node. We're going to also redirect to the right language when context isn't available using IIS.

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Banner image for Adding a Project to Your Helix Solution and How Tds Can Break Your Sitecore Instance article

Today I was adding a project to our Helix solution, and was a little surprised to see the instance break after first deployment. The fix was simple but nowhere near straightforward.

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Banner image for Give Your Authors the Ability to Select Placholders Instead of Typing Them with the Placeholder Dropdown Module article

A good development team will always work to ensure Experience Editor is the preferred method for authoring a page's layout. Of course, this isn't always possible, so our clients need to know how work with Placeholders in the Content Editor, and the module Placeholder Dropdown is a good step in the right direction to improve this experience.

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