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  1. PageData objects not returned as typed when using Page Type Builder and FindPagesWithCriteria

    Posted January 02 2012. 1 comments. A question I’ve been seeing and getting quite often recently is why EPiServer pages are returned as plain PageData objects instead of their typed Page Type Builder classes, such as ArticlePage or StartPageData. Although the questions don’t always revolve around the DataFactory method FindPagesWithCr...

  2. Page Type Builder 2.0 released

    Posted December 22 2011. 10 comments. I’m happy to announce that Page Type Builder version 2.0 has finally been released. It can be downloaded here and soon from the EPiServer NuGet feed. Compared to the last release candidate, version 1.9.3, this release contains a few minor changes such as: Update to the latest version of Castle....

  3. Going Freelance

    Posted December 11 2011. 6 comments. Tomorrow is my first day working as a freelancer. After having worked for three different consulting firms over the last six years I thought it was time to try something new. As an independent I will also have more freedom to work on products, such as Truffler. In fact, my ambition is to divide my t...

  4. Truffler update – dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s

    Posted November 23 2011. 2 comments. We’ve been pretty quiet regarding Truffler for a couple of weeks. That doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been any progress though. Quite the opposite. We’ve been getting a lot of interesting feedback, especially from users of our EPiServer module which we’ve been trying to respond to as quickly as poss...

  5. Search by drawing on a Google Map

    Posted November 07 2011. 2 comments. During the weekend I finally got around to building a feature on the Truffler Sample site that I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time. I call it “crazy map search” as it’s A) probably not very useful in most applications and B) pretty darn cool. For those that haven’t checked out the sample si...

  6. Truffler Sample – Example code and demo site

    Posted November 01 2011. 3 comments. I’m happy to announce Truffler Sample, a project that illustrates basic usage of Truffler and it’s .NET API. It’s both a site online at sample.truffler.net and an ASP.NET MVC project that you can download the source code for over at GitHub. The downloadable project is preconfigured with a read-only ...

  7. Remote branches with TortoiseGit

    Posted October 30 2011. 5 comments. As a user of TortoiseGit I’ve always been a bit confused when it comes to dealing with remote branches. Git makes it really easy and fast to work with branches compared to many version control systems that aren’t distributed, but coming from the world of TFS or SubVersion where a branch is basically...

  8. Meet Truffler – Upcoming Presentations

    Posted October 24 2011. 2 comments. I’m scheduled to speak about Truffler, our awesome new search solution, in a number of places over the next couple of months. So if you haven’t had time to check it out yet, or want to grill me with questions and/or have a beer the time is soon. I’ll be speaking at the following EPiServer meetups: ...

  9. Extending Phantom

    Posted October 20 2011. 0 comments. I’ve been using Phantom, a .NET build system written for writing build scripts in C# and Boo by Jeremy Skinner, in various projects for quite a while and been very happy with it. I’ve even been so happy that I’ve never had any need to extend it. Until now. While there is some documentation in the ...

  10. Page Type Builder 2 Release Candidate

    Posted October 17 2011. 2 comments. It’s been a long time coming and we haven’t really managed to fit everything into version two of Page Type Builder that I’d hoped, but it’s better to ship and get feedback then to never ship. So, I’m happy to announce the release candidate for Page Type Builder 2. Compared to the second preview thi...
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