Announcement: Partial (Item) Cache Clearing Module - SitecoreStager

Great news! We have released a shared source component that implements partial cache clearing model. Make sure to download the tool and read more about it. Since it is Shared Source, make sure you understand the support restrictions, etc. first before deploying the tool to production.

This tool does not substitute the Staging module as it provides cache clearing only, not file upload/download functionality.

For the implementations with frequent publish operations enabled (from workflow or single item publishes) and especially for multisite environments, this will significantly improve the performance of the delivery system and take the load off the SQL Server.

What I love about the tool is that the code is available so if there are specific architectural considerations for your implementation, you can reuse the code and implement the solution that fits your needs.

Kudos to Alexey Romaniuha for the actual implementation.

Enjoy and don’t forget to provide feedback!

List of blogs indexed on SDN

Greetings! Some of you asked - here is the list of blogs we currently index on new SDN search.
http://adeneys.wordpress.com/
http://blog.wojciech.org/?cat=5
http://briancaos.wordpress.com/
http://cmsmarketing.blogspot.com/
http://contenttree.blogspot.com/
http://dev-smar.blogspot.com/
http://jefraser.wordpress.com/category/sitecore/
http://kerrybellerose.blogspot.com/
http://km-sitecore.tumblr.com/
http://larsnielsen.blogspirit.com/
http://mcore.wordpress.com/
http://philheltewig.spaces.live.com/
http://richdias.wordpress.com/category/sitecore
http://sharesitecore.wordpress.com/
http://sitecore-on-the-road.blogspot.com/
http://sitecore.alexiasoft.nl/
http://sitecore.blogspirit.com/
http://sitecore.spaces.live.com/
http://sitecoreaustralia.wordpress.com/
http://sitecoredev.blogspot.com/
http://sitecoreexperience.spaces.live.com/
http://sitecoregadgets.blogspot.com/
http://sitecorejm.blogspot.com/
http://sitecorejohn.spaces.live.com/
http://sitecorekh.blogspot.com/
http://sitecoresmoothie.blogspot.com/
http://sitecoresupport.blogspot.com/
http://thesitecoreexperience.blogspot.com/
http://usoniandream.blogspot.com/
http://vasilinenko.blogspot.com/
http://www.alexeyrusakov.com/sitecoreblog
http://www.cassidy.dk/blog/sitecore

If your blog is not in the list, please submit it to the comments below and we will include it in the search.

BTW, the indexing logic is going to be improved soon, with posts only included into the index.
For those of you interested in tech details, it is kinda tricky since the URL format is not normalized, so it is not straightforward to setup the ignore rules and since we don’t have the control over the blog’s meta data, we have to be creative as usual :-)

SDN Search just got a bit better

We just pushed another small enhancement for our updated search now featuring “top results” functionality.
Coveo is not only a great search engine, but it also gives you plenty of reporting about what users search for on the website which is absolutely critical for such a resource as SDN.
We learnt that most searches are related with “fundamental” keyword, “sitecore security” and “media” so we picked out the most relevant documentation and instructed Coveo search to put them at the top of the list.
Check it out ;-)
 
Thank you for the feedback we got so far and of course, more enhancements are coming soon.

Favorites and Links not working

Just noticed a minor issue in 6.1 with Favorites and Links buttons from the Navigate tab not working.
To fix that, simply go to the “core” database and clear our the “command” field for both items:
/sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Ribbons/Chunks/Navigate/Links
/sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Ribbons/Chunks/Navigate/Favorites

Good that everything is so (re)configurable in Sitecore ;-)

Announcement: New Search on SDN

First time writing a blog post from an airplane and such exciting news! I am pleased to inform about new search integration on our Developer Network.

This is initial launch featuring the following capabilities:
- Improved relevancy of search within the HTML documents, PDF, Word and other document types.
- Improved search performance.

- Refine your search by type of the document and location (you can search in release notes for example). 

-  Ability to search Sitecore Community Blogs and Shared Source Library.

- Save search results as RSS and keep yourself updated.
 
- Search within results, sort, save search query and filter.
- Perform advanced search.
- Rank search results.

- View cached documents with search term highlighting
- and many more.

All this above is provided by version 6 of Coveo Enterprise Search.

Hope it will make your search experience much better, for example include Forum search.
Please do comment as we are planning on enhancing this functionality further and adding Forum search. So we are eager to hear from you.

Now just logon and experience it!