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 addition to Sitecore’s portfolio of advanced developer training courses. In essence, it exists to ensure that developers have the skills they need to create world-class eCommerce sites.Large eCommerce organisations have set the bar high when ...

If you enjoy supporting your national team whenever they're on the pitch, you’ll probably know that the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament has begun!To bring a little bit of competitive spirit to the office, we ...

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 ...

On a recent project, we hit upon an interesting problem - the SQL indexing uniquifier.It seems to be one of those deep, dark SQL secrets that's been tucked away down the back of the sofa and forgotten about over ...

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 ...

For many organisations, the days of direct mail campaigns are a distant memory. The relatively expensive and comparatively slow method of communication is considered to be so outdated that, to some, even the term ...