One of our weak points usually is the design integration tasks, if you are lucky you can have a very skilled web designer that gives you a cool cross-browser compatible markup that fits perfectly in your application, but most of the times you’re lucky if the HTML works perfectly in the plain html file and almost never the designer will be able t... [Read More]

Sometimes you need to create a custom RSS feed for your site, and the product you’re using (MOSS, Umbraco, a custom development,…) does not provide what you exactly need. So you start thinking about building your own feed.
The first attempt is to build the XML yourself, but you’ll find that it can be a little tricky, but think a while… since... [Read More]

This one took us a couple of hours (stressful hours) to spot. We rebooted a server and the crawler stopped crawling ;)
We have two webapps published in the server, the first one is attending to the machine name, and the second (the faulty one) is attending to an alias in the dns (using a host header like “app.company.int” ). The two applic... [Read More]

This one happened today… We discovered that for the pdf files the search results pointed to the dispform.aspx instead of pointing to the file itself.
The procedure we used to fix it was:
First insert a new pdf in the site and make an incremental crawl. When the crawl finishes search for the file in the crawl log, we saw that MOSS... [Read More]

Sometimes you have to perform some kind of operations on the files the user downloads from your site, for example you might need to put a watermark on the documents or images.
In this particular case we are going to sign a pdf file to prevent users modifying the file without being noticed. This is a very useful feature when you distribute le... [Read More]

One of the usual questions when managing a project is determining the time when the product will be shown to the users and. what is more, when can the users start “playing” with the product with some guarantees that their work will not be lost. I want to tell you how I’d like to manage the beta versions of my applications.
I must admit I’m... [Read More]

This one happened today:
After publishing a page and waiting a few minutes, the page does not get propagated to the other variations, so you go to the variation propagation page and see something like this:

The job seems to start, but it does nothing, and the updated variation logs are empty,and it never ends…
The logs (a... [Read More]