Dependency injection (DI) is a technique for achieving loose coupling between objects and their dependencies. Rather than creating classes of classes or using static references to perform their actions, most classes declare their depending on a constructor. Sitecore uses Construction injection and Sitecore implementation is based on Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection. Sitecore dependency injection implements the three lifetimes […]
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Excluding and Including Sitecore Assemblies in Helix Publishing Pipeline Solution
If you have a Sitecore Visual Studio solution inspired by Helix Example and tried source control the Sitecore assemblies or Hotfix assemblies and are unable to copy it to the deploy folder then this post explains how we can publish the same to the deploy folder and we will try to understand how it works. […]
Nine Key Takeaways from Dreamforce 2023
Last week, Perficient attended the largest AI event in the world, Dreamforce, in San Francisco. During the three-day conference, 40,000 Salesforce partners, clients, and vendors got together to hear from Salesforce leadership, industry experts, clients, and a handful of celebrities, as well as get hands-on experience with the Salesforce platform. Fueled by generative AI, IDC […]
Teeing Up Success: A Recap of Perficient and Adobe’s Women in Digital Event
Recently, Perficient and Adobe hosted a Women in Digital event at the prestigious Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio during the Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G. It was a great day that included brunch and a fireside chat as well as a golf clinic with LPGA player and golf commentator Morgan Pressel. The […]
Say Hello to Netlify, our Newest Partnership
We are happy to announce our new partnership with Netlify, one of the original high-performance WebOps platforms for the modern web. Netlify is a composable cloud platform with three key capabilities: Connect anything across various content and data sources A frontend cloud development and hosting platform for your decoupled architecture First-class content editing in a […]
Deciding on a Marketing Automation Platform is Like Buying a Car
Have you ever been to a dealer to buy a car? Deciding on which features, trims, engines, or colors are right for you can be overwhelming. And selecting a marketing automation platform isn’t that different as there are a lot of things to consider as well. For example, in a car you may want a […]
Discovering Sitecore PowerShell Extension – Part 1
Discovering Sitecore PowerShell Reports Sitecore PowerShell is a popular and powerful module that can be used as a development accelerator. It allows Developers, Content Authors, and Marketers to automate various tasks like content creation, audits, correction, etc. Apart from infinite possible usage with custom scripts, SPE already has provided a lot of ammunition in existing […]
Switch SXA Themes Based on Cookie Value
The Requirement There was a requirement to give users the ability to switch the themes of the site. We can have multiple use cases to switch the theme of the site as mentioned below and provide a better user experience. We can show a pop-up on the home page with a message like “Do you […]
Overriding Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block to Implement Custom Recommendations
Introduction The Content Recommendations add-on for Optimizely CMS dynamically recommends content from your site tailored to the interests of each user. Installing the NuGet Package will give you access to Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block which uses Mustache Templating to render the data from the Content Recommendations API on a page. Although Mustache Templates provide a […]
Perficient’s Sitecore Personalize Decision Model Workshop
In the Art of War, Sun Tzu claimed “Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” When it comes to personalization, all too often organizations employ tactics alone, despite a ton of effort being fed into strategic initiatives including customer journey mapping, persona development and user research. When it comes time to apply those strategic […]
Number 100
I have been working at Perficient for almost 8 years. I have always enjoyed writing blogs and sharing my knowledge with others. This is my 100th blog post! WOW! I can’t believe I finally made it! Come with me while I take a look back at 8 years worth of content. Series I write a […]
Making Sense of Sitecore’s Headless Options
If you read my last article, the big deal with headless, you know that the big deal is performance. The architecture you get leveraging a headless architecture with Next.js front end is fundamentally superior to MVC. When you are ready to make the move to headless, you may be surprised that there isn’t just one […]