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		<title>Dutch webinar about faster developing with Sitecore Rocks and VS2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 9th Pieter and I will give a webinar showing you how to develop a basic website by using only Visual Studio 2010 and Sitecore Rocks. The webinar starts at 15.00 hours. Topics that will be covered are: Navigating into the content tree Managing data templates Creating presentation components Job and log management Managing Lucene search indexes Searching in Sitecore Publishing Validation Wizard You can sign up for the webinar here. Note: the webinar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2012/01/24/dutch-webinar-about-faster-developing-with-sitecore-rocks-and-vs2010/</link>
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		<title>Using XAML controls outside the Sitecore folder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In certain cases you want to offer the end-user a userfriendly interface to manage content, users or anything else. Thanks to Sitecore&#8217;s backend flexibility this is possible in more ways than one. In this case I will use the technique which is described in this blogpost by Adam Conn. In the example you can see that a new window is opened by the code below: public override void Execute&#40;CommandContext context&#41; &#123; Assert.ArgumentNotNull&#40;context, &#34;context&#34;&#41;; UrlString url [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2012/01/23/using-xaml-controls-outside-the-sitecore-folder/</link>
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		<title>Configure a authoring server as publishing instance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I got a question from one of our partners about a publishing server. They have an environment in which the authors edit the content on several content authoring servers and publish it to the content delivery servers. In my example underneath we have an environment with multiple content management servers (CM) and multiple content delivery (CD) servers. Whenever a content editor publishes one or more items from the CM to the CD servers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2012/01/12/configure-a-authoring-server-as-publishing-instance/</link>
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		<title>New job: Sitecore Solution Architect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of the first of january I am the new solution architect for Sitecore in the Netherlands. I am the second solution architect next to Pieter Brinkman. Together we will be responsible for: Technical Presentations and demonstrations Providing Technical Trainings Defining Sitecore architecture/blueprint for customer and partners Developing CMS relevant (sales) propositions Develop demo’s and POC with sales, product specialist and product development Support local sales in responding to tenders/rfi/rfp Keep relevant technical/market knowledge up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2012/01/10/new-job-sitecore-solution-architect/</link>
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		<title>Using ELMAH for error logging within Sitecore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since a while I use ELMAH for error logging in my custom ASP.NET applications. Normally in a Sitecore project I log all exceptions to the Sitecore log files. But the disadvantage of this is that the exceptions are in the same files as all Sitecore log messages. So I tried to implement ELMAH within my Sitecore installation. What is ELMAH? According to the official site: “ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2011/03/24/using-elmah-for-error-logging-within-sitecore/</link>
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		<title>EviBlog future plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EviBlog 2.0 update A lot has happened since I released the EviBlog module in november 2009. What started as a small eductional project quickly became one of the largest modules in the Shared Source repository. It became so large that I just didn&#8217;t have enough time to build a newer version on my own. So I am please to announce that I&#8217;m going to team up with Alistair Deneys (also an Sitecore MVP) and Nick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2010/11/24/eviblog-future-plans/</link>
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		<title>Using JQuery in custom fields</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the moment I&#8217;m creating a custom field for tagging content items. I prototyped my custom field in html using JQuery. But when I wanted to convert this to the actual custom field I ran into a problem. As you might know Sitecore uses the Prototype library for all of it&#8217;s javascript. And prototype uses the same dollar sign for all of its functions and variables as JQuery does. But JQuery provides a noConflict function [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2010/02/18/using-jquery-in-custom-fields/</link>
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		<title>Restricting FieldEditor to specific template based items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Sitecore 6.2 it is possible to integrate FieldEditors. These are command which enables users edit item settings when they work in the page editor. Personally I think it is a great option when you want editors to only work within the Page Editor, and still let them edit settings. For the blog module that I created I implemented two FieldEditorCommands which let the user edit the blog and entry settings. When you use the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2010/02/17/restricting-fieldeditor-to-specific-template-based-items/</link>
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		<title>Blog module update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I released the stable version of the EviBlog module. You can download the module from the Sitecore Shared Source. The module works on all Sitecore solutions based on version 6.2. The module now includes the following features: Inline Editing support Windows Live Writer integration Pingback RSS (using the Sitecore 6.2 Integrated RSS) Tagging and tagcloud Categories Comments (you can disable per setting) FieldEditors for blog and entry settings Custom webcontrols for integrating your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2009/11/27/blog-module-update/</link>
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		<title>New Sitecore 6 blog module released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of months I have been working on a new blog module for Sitecore 6.2. It started as a small module just for my own educational purpose but ended up as one of the largest modules I created. The module is a complete rewritten blog module, based upon the functionality of the old 5.3 version. The new version supports inline editing, fieldeditors, webcontrols for custom themes and Windows Live Writer integration. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.com/2009/11/07/new-sitecore-6-blog-module-released/</link>
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