Sitecore

Installing Sitecore Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part we’ll walk through installing Sitecore 8.x and setting up IIS to view a Sitecore website on your local machine. 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 […]

Introduction to Sitecore Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part and the accompanying video, we’ll do a brief introduction to Sitecore 8.x including some of the main features and terminology. We’ll use the Habitat demo site provided by Sitecore. You’ll see how to navigate the Sitecore UI and quickly jump into many […]

Welcome to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers. This series is geared towards developers that are new to Sitecore, but have some experience with content management tools, .NET Programming (C# and .NET MVC), Visual Studio, and IIS. This series focuses on Sitecore MVC (which is not exactly the same as .NET MVC) and Sitecore version 8.X. Part […]

Like all of my peers here at Perficient, I have an MSDN Subscription that comes with a sweet monthly credit for a Microsoft Azure Subscription. By default, your Azure Subscription will have a spending cap, so that if you use up your credit you don’t have to spend any dough just because you forgot to […]

A few weeks ago during Sitecore Symposium, our team had the opportunity to become certified on Sitecore 9, which had not yet been publicly released. This meant that by the time of the announcement, over 180 certified professionals (including six from Perficient) were ready to help. This is one of those releases that pushes Sitecore […]

Sitecore Symposium 2017 has come and gone. I’ve been able to get caught up on work and review my notes. So it’s time to share. First of all, I want to thank and commend the Mirage for being such a great host. The staff was all very friendly and helpful. The conference area is spacious […]

Sitecore 9 introduces a relatively fundamental change in the core platform that will affect a lot of installations across the developer world: Lucene is (almost) out of the picture. Sitecore has always supported multiple search indexing providers, namely Lucene and Solr (shoutout to Coveo for all they do as well). Lucene has always been the […]

Sitecore 9 is out we are all excited to jump in and start using the latest and greatest. So let’s jump in and setup for an XP0 Sitecore installation on our local development machine! George Chang, another Perficient Sitecore MVP, put out a great blog post on How to install Sitecore 9 with the Sitecore Install Framework […]

The big news coming out of Sitecore Symposium last week is the release of Sitecore Experience Cloud 9.0. With the release of version 9, Sitecore has brought more and more pieces of its platform into an inevitably microservices-oriented future. The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s no .exe installer anymore – this has regularly […]

Monday saw the kickoff of Sitecore Symposium with the new CEO of Sitecore, Mark Frost. He articulated three goals he had for the company: Innovation: Integrating data, machine learning, commerce, all delivered in the cloud. Quality: Improved processes, but also improved usability and more community input, as well as an acknowledgement that defects need to […]

The first full day of Sitecore Symposium 2017 has wrapped. A whirlwind of a day with the opening keynotes, sessions, booth time, social hours and this is just getting going. My feet hurt, but whatever, this is fun and there has been a lot to talk about. Here’s my… Top 5 #SitecoreSYM Video Log – […]

It’s here! Sitecore Symposium 2017 week in Las Vegas. As a long-time content author/editor-turned Sitecore Digital Strategist MVP, this is a big event of for me each year. This year, not only am I here for the pre-conference, and multi-day conference, but also for the post-conference MVP summit. This amounts to 8 days (including travel […]