[[!meta  title="SiteCorePy"]]
[[!meta  date="2010-06-24 19:52:08"]]
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As the Physics webmaster, I'm in charge of transitioning most of the
static department content into SiteCore, as the powers that be get
wise to the ways of version control.  Unfortunately, I'm not the
biggest fan of SiteCore.  Major gripes include:

* Poorly conceived versioning.  Some things are versioned, some things
  aren't.  No tools (that I've found yet) for analyzing history except
  on a per-page scope.  Also, can only commit changes at the page
  level, which makes a single "I added alt tags to all my images"
  commit impossible.
* Browser-only interface.  That's right, no scriptable API short of
  driving a browser through a script.  This one is so huge, I'm not
  really sure what else to say.  Surely people occasionaly want to do
  something that the designers hadn't planned for, like, oh, importing
  data from a preexisting database.

Anyhow, to overcome the major limitation, I'm driving my browser
through a script.  Thanks to the magic of
[WebDriver/Selenium](http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted)
for making this possible.

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