Hidden feature of Sitecore Courier

It may seem strange, but there is one feature in Sitecore Courier module which I forgot to mention last time I blogged about it.

You can perform diff versus empty folder, in other words, simply turn a folder with serialized items into a package. It can be useful in two cases:

• When creating initial package with your website files
• If you want TDS-like "all inclusive" packages

Push Sitecore solutions to the servers with PowerShell and WinRM

It's hard to beleive it, but just a year ago I didn't even think about automating deployment of Sitecore solutions. It seemed to be impossible, especially for highly customized project I was working on.

With PowerCore framework, automated deployment can be setup in an hour, and it makes a great difference!

Mobile Device Detector - Feature Update

Just a small update on very popular module Mobile Device Detector - it got some new features recently:

1. Some bugfixes - thanks to everyone who reported issues

2. Easier installation: simply install the package, and re-publish content. No need to change web.config files, etc.

3. And, finally, 51Degrees Premium data file support. All properties are avialable. Don't forget, that free version includes only basic set of rules. Advanced rules do not work with free version (bundled with the module).

Yet another story about OneClick deployment for Sitecore

This blog post is inspired by "OneClick deployment for Sitecore..." post by Jan Hebnes.

I'll describe how to achieve the same result, but using slightly different tools. So, what are the options?

Automate your Sitecore website deployment with PowerCore

I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it..."

In this blog post I want to free your mind and show you that automated website deployment is extremely easy these days. Even when you have a web farm of hundreds Sitecore servers: if you can describe deployment procedure using checklist - you can automate it with PowerShell.

Test multilingual sites with SplitShot

When you develop large multilingual website, it becomes more and more complex overtime, new features added every sprint, new languages and country sites are added qarterly, and it takes more time to verify that your current functionality works fine and a sublayout you're changing for Japan website is not going to break the US or some other multilingual site out of 10+ available.

Clicking through the 15-20 pages every time you change something? Not enough smart.

Sitecore Mobile Device Detector - 51degrees integration

In this quick note I just want to announce that Mobile Device Detector module is now based on 51degrees framework.

Module package includes Lite data library which is free for commercial usage and works really fast.
Previous releases of Mobile Device Detector (based on OpenDDR) are obsolete and will not be maintained, since OpenDDR C# wrapper is rather slow and seems to be abandoned.