Last week while in Vegas for the North American Sitecore Symposium , Coveo announced the release of Coveo for Sitecore Free Edition. This free edition supports Sitecore 7 and higher.

I was immediately excited to get home so I could play around with this new offering. This post details the process I went through, highlighting a few areas that I overlooked...

Last week while assisting a customer with a Sitecore upgrade we ran into an error that I'd never seen before (the customer however had). The error was related to the size of the Web.config file exceeding the max size limit (which is by default set to 250kb).

I would imagine that this is a rather edge case scenario but I wanted to point out a few...

After 5,168 days (that's 14 years, 1 month and 27 days), today is my last day at PixelMEDIA. I don't regret, for one second, joining them way back on May 1st, 2000. At that time I was employee 27 (or 28), two of us started on the same day. Now they hover around 70 incredibly talented individuals.

A trip down memory lane

In this period of time I...

So about a month ago I ran into a well known dynamic placeholder issue with Sitecore. If you aren't aware of this issue I encourage you to check out previous posts from Matthew Kenney, John Newcombe, Nick Wesselman and David Leigh. My current project however is using Sitecore MVC and these solutions cover webforms implementations.

When I solicted...

On my current project we have some global items stored in a series of folders. To make organization of these different items I created a structure that makes sense for the different types. We call these items cards and we have multiple types. We have a series of modules that consume these cards. This looks something like this:

• Card Catalog
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As I know many of my followers are of the techie sort I figured a follow-up post to my introduction post might be in order to detail some of the more technical aspects of this new site.

For those that don't want the nitty-gritty, here is the 10,000 foot view:

• Completely static site built using Middleman which is a static site generator
• Hosted...

Welcome to the inaugural post here at Dust Collected. In the coming weeks and months this site will grow with articles covering topics from software engineering and woodworking, two of my current passions.

By day I'm a software engineer, coming up on my 14th year of employment at PixelMEDIA, based in Portsmouth, NH. My current niche is content management...