Over the past year you may have noticed how the marketing world has been bombarded by an avalanche of information about the merits of contextual marketing and personalisation.No-one is doubting that to be successful in today's market, your online experience has to mimic a traditional physical experience. But experience is deeply subjective and unique to each individual, so it is very difficult to define precisely.One thing is clear though. A mass approach ...

Today I faced an issue with Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM). We had taken a copy of a customer's system and were trying to test some changes we'd made to it. This involved making sure that the system sent email ...

Bryan Archer, from 3chillies, has recently upgraded the 51Degrees device detection extension for Sitecore to work with version 8 and beyond. The new extension uses the on-premise device detection service adding all ...

We’re proud to announce that 3chillies developer, Andrew Ward has attained the Sitecore Commerce Professional Developer Certification.The 4 day programme, named “Sitecore Commerce powered by Commerce Server” is a new ...

I was really impressed with what we were able to achieve in a recent project by simply leveraging the facets functionality of the Sitecore Lucene and SOLR integration. We used this functionality to produce a list of ...

A host of different Content Management Systems use the .NET framework, and each of them have different advantages depending on your business requirements. If, like most, you've boiled your choices down to either ...

The base result item for the Sitecore content search is called SearchResultItem and is located with the Sitecore.ContentSearch.SearchTypes namespace, this by default has quite a fair few useful properties attached to ...

If you have had the luxury of getting your hands on the Sitecore content search, I'm confident that you'll join me when I say that it can be described using one word..."AMAZING"!  There are many ways to approach ...

On 30th Jan, a few of our code-junkies locked themselves in a meeting room and set up their battle stations ready to take part in a 24-hour Sitecore hackathon!For those unfamiliar with the term, a Hackathon (also ...

Recently I've been looking at implementing caches in Sitecore, and in my current project I've had to do this a few times; let's have a look at my general pattern. I've just been caching strings; although other objects ...