I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time waiting. I wait for my wife while she’s shopping, I wait for doctor appointments and I wait for… you know, the list is endless. But, I do take advantage of my wait time by browsing the web using my phone. If I were […]
Posts Tagged ‘BrainJocks’
Drive traffic to your website with SEO – Part 1
I have been managing websites for over 10 years. I have been lucky enough to work with some of the best SEO agencies in the world. I have also been in the position where I have had no budget for SEO and had to optimize the site myself. Certainly, if budget permits, I recommend hiring […]
My Internship Experience – Keith
Editor’s Note: In 2020, Perficient acquired Brainjocks, a leading digital consultancy with a strong Sitecore platform focus. This blog post predates the acquisition. Working for BrainJocks was definitely one of the best experiences I’ve had. Going through college you get so caught up in taking classes and getting grades that you never think of what […]
Software QA testing – which is best Exploratory vs Scripted?
Many people have asked me which is better in software testing; exploratory vs scripted. First, lets take a look at a basic explanation of each: Scripted Testing (Wikipedia definition – Scripted Testing) Scripted testing in regards to software testing is the detailed step-by-step approach to testing a specific piece of functionality. Generally, a test writer or […]
Customizing the model within Sitecore MVC
In Sitecore, the MVC framework provides a “default” model type that does some very necessary work. To support the view, Sitecore’s default model type Sitecore.Mvc.Presentation.RenderingModel provides you access to The “current” item – passed via a datasource or the context item if no datasource is used The PageContext item (which may be different if a […]
Bundling with Sitecore MVC
Sitecore’s MVC support is (as of Sitecore 6.6 update 5) based on the MVC3 implementation by Microsoft. One really nice feature of Microsoft’s MVC4 implementation is the concept of bundling. Bundling allows a developer to aggregate a collection of either CSS files or Javascript files into a single “item” that can be easily manipulated and […]
Creating a quick admin script to run within Sitecore
Not exactly the most glorious post for the first from our Sitecore blog, but nevertheless, the team asked for it so here it is. There are occasions where a developer needs to create some simple page to run “against” items contained within a Sitecore database. This can be used to modify items in the content […]