License Expiration Notifier – scheduled task

I’ve created a simple scheduled task – it check expiration date of the Sitecore license at the installation where it's run and sends warning (or writes to log file) in case expiration date comes in a certain number of days.Should prevent from unexpected license expiration and hence from site downtime.

In case nobody objects, it will appear at http://trac.sitecore.net soon.

Taking over Product Catalogue sample site

As a part of some free-time developing I took over Product Catalogue sample site (which I saw was requested for updating by someone).
The first stage - direct upgrade to Sitecore V6 is done:
http://trac.sitecore.net/ProductCatalogue

If you have ideas or wishes for this solution, please mail them to me at dv sitecore.net and I will continue improving it with pleasure.

Sitecore shell in Russian

Finally! I have translated Sitecore shell into Russian.

On the way I looked at the Office translation, SVN translation and many other books and sites. Main problem was whether some names should be translated at all, e.g. we don't use translation of Layout - we juts pronounce Layout. And the same thing with many other names. I guess that's because Russian is different from European languages.

Anyway, the first version is ready. I'm going to send it to Sitecore Ukraine firstly to get feedback. After that I'll publish it on SDN into Localization section which is being prepared.

Google Chrome - web-browser from Google

Google announced own web browser. That's not unexpected news, but I've tried Sitecore and it seems we support it :) - the same amount of features like in Firefox. At least I was able to do content editing and publishing.

Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html
Google on Google Chrome - comic book: http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

See generated configuration in V6

Recently I've recollected that I could develop and decided renew my skills. There was a good occasion - during one of our technical meeting we discussed new feature of V6 - Auto Include Config files. It's great and very useful, but it seems to be hard to understand the final configuration file after all changes since they are made on a fly. But it's definitely necessary for debugging or discovering issues in the solution.


Here is a quick tool I did:

1. Install the package onto V6
http://rapidshare.com/files/132071977/DetailedConfigReport-1.0.0.zip.html

2. Run the tool:

3. See the result: