Hello, and welcome to my corner of the world. My name is Darrin Robertson and I am a Progress Sitefinity partner, a Sitefinity developer at American Eagle and this is my site where I put some of the things I do with Sitefinity.
And it has been a while!
But with the recent release of Sitefinity 13.0 and now 13.1 I am looking to start posting again. I do have a lot of notes and topics, several of which are now obsolete. Speaking of obsolete I have been going through my code for this site and looking to remove/rewrite all the now obsolete solutions.
Another major update for me will be upgrading the eCommerce solution I have implemented. I have created an integration with Snipcart which you can read about in a recent post.
If you have anything you would like to write about feel free to drop me a suggestion.
In these articles I will talk about how I work and develop in Sitefinity. I also look to talk about any errors and issues I ran into hoping that it helps others who have run into the same things. I also talk about ways to achieve a solution or solve a problem. Of course there are always several ways to achieve a solution and I do hope to hear about other peoples ideas along the way.
This post continues a collection of ideas and options for you to pick from to help your Sitefinity projects run faster. Some are actualy Sitefinity specific. Some are for when developing. Some are for production. Most can be applied to any website. This post is a varity of bits and bobs.
This post is a collection of ideas and options for you to pick from to help your Sitefinity projects run faster. Some are actualy Sitefinity specific. Some are for when developing. Some are for production. Most can be applied to any website. This post focuses around resource loading. A second post will look at a varity of things.
When creating your own widgets one thing you don't want is if it throws an error to 500 the whole page. Maybe you do? This post is for those that don't want that but prefer to display something a bit more friendly and are looking for help tracking those, 'only happens in production with a random customer', errors.
Upgrading Sitefinity continues to improve. Back in the day, it was best to upgrade by each major version. Then NuGet packages came along and support for upgrading multiple major versions was supported. Now we have CLI and as of 13.1 it is quite robust and the way going forward I think.
Need some help with Sitefinity? Some development or consulting? Small business work or enterprise level, I can help you out through myself and my employment with American Eagle.
Perhaps a drop in module to add some functionality or a whole service module to enhance the business. I have created several reusable modules over my time and am refining them to be used by others.
My Sitefinity blog covers my experiences related to Sitefinity. I look to write about errors I run into and gotchas I have come across. General opinions and, I hope, helpful solutions.
" Darrin has been my most valuable asset for my small business. Darrin’s professionalism, ability to meet or beat deadlines, and his top-quality work has helped my business grow since 2013. "
" I love the short and easy to read tutorials created for my website and that whenever I have an issue I can email or call on Darrin who helps me through any problems without fuss. "
" Darrin has been very helpful in creating a website for my Olympic Campaign. He has always been easy to contact and work with and he understands how to make the site best suit my goals. "