Hotel Room 404

Everyone knows people who are some kind of superstitious. However, I do not care about black cats, the number 13 or what ever.

I just had a good laugh when I received the key for my hotel room.

And for a superstitious (web) developer - this must be the worst room to stay :-)

Invalid character in a Base-64 string (ASP.NET) « Ketone Cops

If you ever come across this error - this might be the solution:

Invalid character in a Base-64 string (ASP.NET)

Sitecore Level 2

Last week I passed Sitecore Level 2 certification. So let's continue with work on Sitecore,....

IT Specialist Certification Program

Today I received my Open Group Certification:

Open Group Master Certified IT Specialist

Sitecore getting back to standard?

So you changed the value of a field and want to revert to standard? Thats even more important if you did some layout changes, but need to get back to the template's standard?

Go to the Versions tab, there you will find the "Reset" button.

It saved my day!

Custom Languages and Sitecore

There is of course one detail you have to consider:

Writing out the content language needs a translation. But I guess you thought of that when you where creating the rendering for the meta tags.

Killer Application

Whats the reason to go berserk?

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No Killer Games but Killer Excel?

Will this now be the start for a discussion about "Killer Excel"?

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Sitecore and Languages

My customer uses translation services and employees to do all the necessary translation work. They have a very good web application for that and utilize those translations on their current homepages.

To shorten that story a little bit, every text is represented using "webkeys" in the form [key=KeyName] and is then translated "on the fly" into the text and language necessary for display.

Not all developers know of ISO Standards, or are able to use the correct one. So for some languages, instead of the Language Identifier, the Country Code has been taken.

Now two options:

1) In Sitecore add the correct language, create either some Sitecore Items to tranlsate from Correct to Wrong Language Identifier, add code to perform the translation, eventually add a cache and manage it, go to the translation db and request translations for your keys.

2) Create Custom Cultures, e.g. reigster the wrong Language Code in the system, in Sitecore add the Language with the "wrong" ISO code, no other changes, no cache, no additional code.

To work with option two - download Sitecore`s Language Registration Tool and register the Language Code.

In the above screen shot you can see that I registered  a language "cz", so I now can use the language identifier cz in Sitecore.

Hello World

not only the first program every programmer writes, but also the first words for my blog.

I am Jerry, living in Vienna, Austria. Married, 2 kids, one cat. Working for IBM since 1996, before I worked for some other companies.

I use this blog to write about my work and maybe sometimes about my life. You can expect posting me on development, customer care, politics, and whatever keeps my brain busy.