This one will be a relatively quick one ( hopefully before the girlfriend finds out I am working on our holiday 😉 ). Continuing on in the Don’t Fight The Framework series, I thought I would discuss a topic that has kind of formed the more I have worked with Web Content Management Systems such as Sitecore. As me and Simon used to band about in our development exploits (usually in a faux Danish accent) – ‘Sitecore is built on Sitecore’ and it got me thinking…

The basic premise is this – we as developers are often guilty of just opening visual studio and hacking away at our latest interesting issues / projects & crazy solutions to problems. I have found particularly with Sitecore you can sometimes get a feel for how successful a Sitecore solution you have developed by how much time you spend in Visual Studio ( not…