Eric Sanner – Solutions Architect

Earlier this year, I released my first Sitecore module “Placeholder Dropdown“.  It changes the placeholder name input text box into a dropdown when adding a new component to presentation details in the content editor.  It helps you remember if your placeholder name was ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column’. Version 2 is now available in the Sitecore […]

A while back, I wrote an article demonstrating how to create a dropdown list for placeholders when adding a new component to presentation details in the content editor.  It changes the input box to a dropdown so you don’t have to remember if your placeholder name was ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column’.  It was long […]

Our Perficient colleagues share how they live and breathe our core values. Here, Eric Sanner, a senior technical consultant, writes about his experiences collaborating with his Perficient Sitecore colleagues. One of the things I enjoy about working at Perficient is that it’s a big company, but it has a small company feel. I’m a senior […]

Has someone come to you as a developer and said, “Looks like we’ve got a problem?” What do you think of when the person says this to you? Do you assume the worse or something that can be delayed? I supposed it depends on the urgency conveyed by the speaker. But it is difficult to […]

This session was lead by Simon Jones, Glen McInnis, Bart Plasmeijer, and Jaspar van den Bosch from Valtech. They talked about how they manage 1,000 websites in 100 countries and 50 languages across 15 brands for a popular makeup brand. Here are my notes from the session: Principals for success Reuse, reuse, reuse Build for […]

This session was lead by Brain Beckham and Viktoria Shostak from Brain Jocks. They talked about the typical way code moves from developer to integration to QA testing. They demonstrated how it is possible to end-up with an unstable release branch and proposed an alternative. Here are my notes from the session: What is Functional […]

This session was lead by Ciaran McAuliffe from Sitecore. He showed how to use several different tools to deploy Sitecore in Azure using the Platform as a Service (Paas) model. Here are my notes from the session: Azure Marketplace Use this when you need a quick site to test on and you do not need […]

This session was lead by Ciaran McAuliffe from Sitecore. He talked about several things that impact your monthly Azure bill, how to make sure you are not over paying for services you don’t need, and getting enough server for a performant website. Here are my notes from the session: Data Center Pricing Not the same […]

Want To Learn More? Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! Thank you for following us along on this journey! We hope that you found this series helpful in starting your Sitecore journey. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part […]

Troubleshooting Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this last part, we’ll look at some common problems you may encounter while installing and setting up Sitecore 8.x. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the bootcamp. Problem: Cannot […]

Experience Editor Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part, we’ll extend our custom Sitecore 8.x content module we built in part 4 to use the Experience Editor allowing inline content editing. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other […]

Building Your First Module Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part we’ll build our first custom Sitecore 8.x content module. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the bootcamp. Download the Sitecore Bootcamp For Developers Part […]