Jeremy Davis
Jeremy Davis
Sitecore, C# and web development
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Posts from December 2018

Surviving the developers' Javapocalypse

It's Christmas, and I'm dreaming of a festive sherry, while I slog through my last working day of the year. So hopefully you can forgive me the flagrant clickbait headline... 😉

But you'd have to have your head in the sand not to have noticed that Oracle are changing the licensing terms for their builds of the Java runtime. They've decided that they want people and businesses to pay for the fastest access to support updates for Java. But as Sitecore developers, many of us make use of Solr – which relies on Java. So what can we do?

Sitecore Solr ~2 min. read

What do you mean you can't fetch that item by its path?

There are some things in Sitecore that you just take for granted will work. Loading items is a good example of this. I'll admit that user error can get in your way, but usually if you can see an item in the content tree, you can write code that will load it without issues. So I'll admit I was pretty confused when I came across a scenario recently where this did not appear to work correctly. In case anyone else hits this challenge, here's what happened: