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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Telerik has done a good job of releasing updates to Sitefinity this year, going all the way from 4.0 to 4.4 in 12 months.Sitefinity 5.0 is slated for February 2012 (http://www.sitefinity.com/web-content-management/roadmap.aspx), which will include a Forums module and additional developer tools.
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Sitefinity
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011
I am looking forward to the Kindle Fire, and intend to buy one as soon as it comes out. I think the screen size is too small (anything smaller than the iPad is too small) but the price point can't be beat. I think it will be a game changer, and at $199 will knock out a lot of the non-iPad competition.
I don't think it will harm Apple too much, as I think it's for the crowd that can't see spending $500 for a tablet at this point. Especially one that doesn't allow Adobe's Flash! So I think a ...
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Misc
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
I have played Fieldrunners to the point that it's just not that fun anymore.If you're looking for a replacement, look no further than Land Grabbers. I love the game. As usual it has a free versions but it also has a pay option.At $2.99, it's hard to beat the price. I did also buy Gears of War 3 for $59.99 on the XBox. Granted, these are two totally different games, but it does amaze me for what you can get on the iPad for a few dollars.
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Misc
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Lately I have received many calls from people who have lost their Sitefinity password (in 3.x).There's a good page on Sitefinity which supplies most of the info you need to know:http://www.sitefinity.com/help/developer-manual/resetting-administrator-password.htmlIn general, if you have access to the database, the users are stored in the [telerik_users] table. The passwords are encrypted, so you will have to: Connect to the database with SQL Studio Manager Find the User you want to update in the [telerik_users] table. Using SQL , set the PasswordFormat column to zero, set the Password to something in clear text. You can now login as ...
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Sitefinity
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Recently I've been using Google's Chrome browser more and more often. It seems to work better and faster on most sites and have fewer upgrades and security updates.For any content editing in Sitefinity, I always use Chrome. Sitefinity 3.7 Page editing has some quirks in IE 9 and Firefox 6.x. So far Chrome has no issues.
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Sitefinity
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
When you're bringing over controllers and views from one MVC project to the other, you may run in to weird runtime model errors. Most of these issues are the result of bringing a web.config file over from another project that is not the same version of MVC. In my case today I copied over some controllers and views and a web.config file from an Area in MVC3 to a project in MVC2. Everything compiled, but at runtime the Model object was null.I rarely make any changes to the web.config that lives in the /Areas folder. I just deleted it ...
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: ASP.Net MVC
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
I do think PCs and Laptops are dying. But not dead yet. I have several old laptops that I've used for years and I just finally realized that they were becoming too slow to be usable. The boot times were killing me.I still need a Windows-based Laptop so I went to BestBuy and picked up a nice Asus. I had never heard of this manufacturer before.I love the iPad, but I had to get another laptop for producing content (like blogging). I have tried many keyboards with the iPad but none really worked out well. Part of the ...
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Misc
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
It seems that we will forever live in a world where multiple browsers, and multiple versions, will exist.I really thought Safari would start to take over with the onslaught of iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices. At some point, I thought Safari would make it's way onto the PC and start to take over. But I rarely speak with anyone who is running Safari on their PC as a choice.Without that, I also really through that Firefox would start to dominate as well. Firefox seems plagued with it's own issues-most notably it's constant updates and plugin issues.Internet Explorer ...
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Misc
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Friday, August 12, 2011
Many wonderful bug fixes and a new eCommerce module: http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/general-discussions/sitefinity-4-2-is-released.aspx
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: Sitefinity
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Monday, August 01, 2011
Adobe has just released a new version of Adobe Flash Builder that was specially created for PHP developers. I think it's a good sign that Flash Development is still alive and well. Flash has taken some hits recently, as Steve Jobs refuses to allow Flash to run on iPhones, iPads, and iPods. To promote this Jobs and Co. have pushed the notion that Flash has security issues and has many memory leaks. You could say that about any program. Adobe has finally won over Apple to the point that the Adobe AIR software can create applications for the Apple family ...
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Gregg Crystal