Update GeoIp info in DMS database

Many of you have probably seen "IP_NOT_FOUND" entries in Engagement Analytics application.

Usually, it's a visits from internal IP address (like 192.*.*.* or 10.*.*.*) - your company network, monitoring systems, etc.
Such addresses cannot be resolved by MaxMind, so they're just displayed as "Not Found". Also, sometimes you might want to update GeoIP information manually (for example, if you know more about the particular IP than MaxMind does)


The simplest way to do it is to update the DMS database directly. This can be done in 2 easy steps.

Sitecore Snippets - Blog Statistics Overview

Year 2011 is over, and it's time to look back to review and analyze blog statistics, as well as summarize yearly achievements.

There was about 6000 unique visitors, who generated more than 15000 page views this year. About 30% of them live in United States.

Sitecore GeoIP Country Resolving - Jump to Lightspeed

There is always a trade-off between the website performance and the number of features you want to provide to the visitors. With MaxMind GeoIP services, which are tightly integrated with Sitecore DMS you can get the detailed info about each website user, but sometimes it can take a while to retrieve all requested information.
In this article, I'll show how to customize Sitecore, to use GeoLite database for instant country resolving.

Client Event Tracker - Examples & Demo Page

My previous blog post about Client Event Tracker module for Sitecore was rather technical and did not contain real examples. Since it's much better to show something once than say about it many times, I've created Demo Page, where you can see how the module can be used, side by side with simple results view.

There are 3 examples, let's review them briefly.

Sitecore Update Helper

In this blog post I just want to present my project called Sitecore Update Helper. It's a simple website that helps to  prepare to Sitecore CMS update by displaying update steps and links to appropriate pages on SDN.
You just need to specify source / target versions, and click "Process".
This is what you get if you want to upgrade from 6.1.0 Initial Rel. to 6.5.0 Update-1:

If you have any questions or ideas - do not hesitate to leave your comments.

Language Fallback and Sitecore Dictionary

Sitecore CMS Dictionary is the best place to keep all texts that can be used across the site: "read more", "click here", etc. . It's internal architecture is a little unusual - it stores key/value pairs in the temp file  /{yourSiteRoot}/temp/dictionary.dat, which is updated during item:saved event(via the handler in web.config).

Client-Side Event Tracking with Sitecore Analytics

After the previous blog post about combining JavaScript and CSS, I decided to create more modules standardizing features that can be used out of the box at many websites.

Today I'll describe new module that allows tracking client-side events with Sitecore Analytics. Such feature is really important for today's highly interactive sites, and you'll see how easy it is to implement it for Sitecore.

After installing the module, you'll be able to track external file downloads, Ajax events and any kind of visitor interaction that does not cause the page to refresh (expanding / collapsing page areas, popup windows, etc.).