The next Sitecore Southern California User Group meeting is on March 9th at 6pm. This month Prasanth Nittala will be talking about Sitecore and Social Media. That should be an interesting topic since comScore reported that in December 2009 nearly 4 out of 5 internet users found themselves on a social media website. More

This topic has two different approaches based on the EPiServer CMS product version. The last CMS version R2 has already integrated the configuration provider, under EPiServer.Security, so in this version the Active Directory (AD) integration is really simple. In the other hand, for previous versions, we have to do a manual configuration, in this case we have to download the source code from the EPiServer community website.  More

Oshyn employs a rigorous test-driven development process and continuous integration that allows development to be done with greater transparency, greater efficiency and greater predictability. This diagram describes the Oshyn Sitecore Development & Configuration Management Methodology.  More

by Byron Calisto  More

Want to learn more about Sitecore CMS? Sign up for the Southern California User Group! The inaugural meeting will take place on Wednesday January 13th at 6pm at Oshyn's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. It's a good group to get involved in if you have an interest in Content Management Systems (CMS), WCM, Online Marketing, or even just scouting out ways to make your website a better performer! Oshyn is providing pizza and refreshments - so sign up on Meetup so we know how many mouths we're feeding! Sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Los-Angeles-Oshyn/  More

I'd like to talk today about a little challenge I got: Integrate Sitecore with Facebook.  More

If we have looked around in Sitecore it is clear the idea of templates and items.  As it says on the application manual, Sitecore treats everything as a template which is equals to a class in an object oriented language, and the items which are an instance of the class.  This concept helps programmers to build organized components.  But, this does not end here, programmatically Sitecore also maintains this concept and offers the chance to create and modify templates and items just by using its libraries in .Net. More

I'd like to talk to discuss the benefits of working with Sitecore when you need to deliver distinct rendered views depending on the device the client is using, in this case mobiles.  More