Sitecore

I had the honor of joining master Sitecore Developer and host Derek Dysart as a guest on his Sitecore-based podcast Core Sampler. I am proud to be among the ranks of distinguished Sitecore MVP’s and a growing variety of Sitecore experts on his informative series. Check out the Podcast While the content of this podcast […]

When upgrading to Sitecore 8.2, watch out for this issue that we ran into. If you have any View Renderings that don’t end in “.cshtml”, like for example you had an extra space at the end of one of them and it ended in “.cshtml “, you may have a problem. Sitecore, in an effort […]

The connection between your customer’s digital customer experience and bottom line are clear. Check out this infographic to see why you should consider improving your company’s digital customer experience.

Out of the box, Web API does not support session. It’s possible to enable it, but requires a bit of work. In this blog post, I’ll cover how you can enable session in Web API for your Sitecore solutions with a custom pipeline processor.

Colleague Bill Cacy and I have been actively working with Sitecore recently on an issue that has been affecting one of our clients. When publishing a single item in the content tree with Publish related items checked, seemingly unrelated items, all the way up to the Home item, are being published as well.

As winter is coming in Canada and there will be family fun in the snow, we have been brainstorming on the Sitecore Family-Friendly Conference and had some interest however not enough yet for a full conference. After looking a bit harder we realized that it is hard to do 2 conferences in a year and since […]

The last Sitecore User Group meeting in Atlanta was on December 9, 2014. For reference, at that time the following were still alive (WARNING: Game Of Thrones Spoilers): Mance Rayder, Janos Slynt, Barristan Selmy, Maester Aemon, Shireen, Stannis Baratheon First of His Name, Myrcella Baratheon, Jon Snow (wink), Doran Martell, Trystane Martell, Roose Bolton, Balon […]

DocumentDB is a NoSQL JSON database by Microsoft that is provided as a service in Azure. Due to its cloud service architecture, this allows developers and clients to read and write to the service using the DocumentDB API and have a globally scalable and lightning fast data repository. This provides a consumption-based NoSQL database and […]

Federated Experience Manager (FXM) is a very useful part of Sitecore, in that it allows end users to add content to and track events on external applications. This is good because it means that clients do not have to convert all of their existing applications into the Sitecore instance to use it’s functionality. In a […]

Last month in some downtime between great sessions at the 2016 Sitecore Symposium in New Orleans, I got the pleasure of meeting Derek Dysart. Derek is the creator of the Core Sampler Podcast, and is racking up an impressive collection of interviews. After talking for a bit, we decided that an interview about Ignition was […]

For the second year in a row, Sitecore was given the highest placement for its “Ability to Execute” in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM) – placing it once again in the leaders’ category. Research and analyst firm Gartner looked at 18 WCM platforms and ranked them based on their ability to […]

Two months ago Mark Cassidy launched a proposal to start a Sitecore site on Stack Exchange. At Sitecore Symposium, it was announced that the Sitecore proposal was the fastest proposal ever on Area 51 (Stack Exchange’s New Site Staging Zone) to garner enough support to move into private beta. On September 13, just a month (!!!) after the proposal […]