Sitecore Content Management News Roundup: Issue 4

Time again for a roundup of news from the world of Sitecore.

Note: If you’re looking to get started in Sitecore and want a more complete guide to navigating this CMS product, our recently released Best Practices for Sitecore whitepaper can help guide you through a successful implementation.

Now, onto the news. . .

Sitecore Content Management System Product and tool information

Sitecore CMS 6 Update 9 was released Jan 30. Sitecore CMS 6 Service Release 1 was released Feb 13. As of Feb 23, 2009 Update-9 is still the recommended release. All the details can be found at http://sdn5.sitecore.net/Products/Sitecore%20V5/Sitecore%20CMS%206/ReleaseNotes.aspx.

Support tidbits

The final version of configuration of production environments guide has been released for Sitecore 6.

Bloggers

Alex de Groot has some nice coverage of Sitecore and SSL.

The Google AJAX Search API is a great tool that we have been working with at NLC. It’s designed to make it easier for webmasters and developers to do two things:

• Add a dynamic search box to your site, which includes Google Web, Image, Video, News, Maps, Blog, Book, and Patent search results
• Build powerful web apps on top of Google search

In this article, we’ll review some of the features available within the API.