How NDpend can help to keep track of Helix design principles.

In this article I demonstrate how I improved site performance with a few simple techniques.

A short story how to fix ERROR ProcessExpiredItems => System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Cannot get the member '<.ctor>b__2'. excetpion.

I have seen Redis timeouts in all my projects. In this article I provide a list of most probably causes and solutions.

Generating media cache every time you do deployment is a waste of CPU. In this article I show you how to copy MediaCache folder from prod slot to stage slot during deployment.

MSBuild can be your friend. Especially in Helix projects. We can extend MSBuild to build Helix projects the same way as gulp scripts do, but much, much faster.

1. MSBuild basics for Sitecore devs
2. MSBuild extension points
3. MSBuild Build and Publish pipelines
4. How to extend MSBuild publish pipeline to copy content files from all Helix modules to the output.
5. How to extend MSBuild publish pipeline to apply transform files.
6. How to extend MSBuild to execute Unicorn Sync action.
7. VIDEO: Speed comparison of gulp vs MSBuild build & publish
8. How to extend MSBuild to copy indirect references.
9. VIDEO: How to configure local development environment step by step
10. VIDEO: How to set up Build & Release pipelines on VSTS step by step (the easiest way)
11. VIDEO: Speed comparison of gulp vs MSBuild build & publish.
12. How to extend MSDeploy with custom providers for Unicorn and Transform Files
13. VIDEO: How to set up Build & Release pipelines on VSTS step by step (to generate WDP package, apply transform files and sync unicorn by MSDeploy)
14. Helix Publishing Pipeline by Richard Szalay

Sometimes you need to export more than 10000 of logs from Application Insights. I wrote a tool that can help.

There is one unexpected side effect of the EditContext that I didn't know about. Did you?

I created a video where you can see how to configure SolrCloud and Zookeeper on Azure behind VPN for you Sitecore projects.

I created an extension to Sitecore Config Reader class that allows to replace variables with values form Connection Strings or Application Settings.

My custom SIF installation (and uninstall) scripts for local development

How to lower memory consumption in Sitecore.

It'a theoretical example of how much faster index rebuild can be if you exclude not nesesery fields.

I describe here I implemented functionality to resize and compress images during upload to media library.

I created library that helps with handling plurals of nouns for different languages in Sitecore.

A few tips about how to get the best performance of your search query.

I created a video where you can see how to create a helix serialization module with Unicorn 4.0 from scratch

I created a video where you can see how to create a new Sitecore Helix solution from scratch.

See how to organize your Sitecore custom configration files.

If you want to populate sitecore with some test data you can use power shell. I put here sample script and a few informations about its performance.

If assets in media library in sitecore are stored in the database after some time your db can grow to considerable size. I put here the power shell script, which can query for unused resources larger than 1MB.

A few weeks ago I decided to install a brilliant tool which is AutoHotkey. Since then I have used it every day. See how it can help you.