Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore Symposium’

Perficient is thrilled to announce that we will once again be attending Sitecore Symposium. This October 17-20, the highly anticipated Sitecore Symposium 2022 will take place in Chicago.   Following the wake of a global pandemic and two years as a digital-only event, Sitecore Symposium will return. But don’t worry if you don’t have tickets, select insights […]

BuiltIn Boston, an online tech community, recently interviewed Hiral Shah, a lead technical consultant at Perficient, to discuss the importance for women to self-advocate and the benefits she has realized as a result. Hiral gave insightful responses and advice while discussing how the Perficient community has been an integral part of improving her confidence and […]

This session provided a basic look at technical debt – what it is and where it comes from.  It also offered some suggestions on working with legacy code and Helix together. Here are my key takeaways: What is technical debt? A measure of how untidy your code is Any time when you look at your […]

Once again, Perficient Digital will have its award-winning Sitecore team at Sitecore Symposium in Orlando, November 4-7, 2019. Perficient Digital is a platinum Sitecore partner with more than 80 certified Sitecore developers, 10 MVPs, and 5 Sitecore Site of the Year awards. Each year, we look forward to Sitecore Symposium as a chance for our […]

Well, it’s that time of year again when people start thinking about Sitecore Symposium: registration is open, the agenda has been posted, and people are planning their trips. I am so happy that I was selected to attend for the third year in a row with Perficient Digital!  Now, it’s time for me to start […]

Learning to SPEAK was lead by Julia Gavrilova and Olga Kogen from XCentium.  They gave a little history of SPEAK and demoed a couple apps they have written.  I’ve got some ideas for apps to build in Sitecore, and now I’m ready to get started! What is SPEAK Sitecore Process Enablement & Accelerator Kit Toolkit […]

Paige ONeill, Sitecore’s Chief Marketing Officer, led the first Women in Tech panel discussion. This panel, featuring 18 female Sitecore MVPs including Perficient Digital’s own Wendy Derstine, was an insightful, inspirational, and thought provoking discussion. #MovetheDial The #MovetheDial movement was started to help close the gender gap in technological industries. Its goal is to encourage and […]

Alex Shyba from Altola.com showed us how to go from design to deployed with JSS and React. Design Component based design systems Material UI Bootstrap Bring functional and visual consistency to your designs Need a single source of truth React is agnostic to rendering target React integrates with Sketch FramerX Drag and drop React UI […]

Adam Weber and Kam Figy of Sitecore showed us how to use JSS in powerful ways including progressive web apps.  PWAs work like a native mobile app and have support for offline mode. Headless What is headless? A fancy way to use a CMS as a content api Advantages Decouple content delivery from presentation Multi-channel […]

This session was lead by Jean-Francois L’Heureux from Coveo.  He showed how to apply the helix guidelines for Sitecore development to a JSS solution. Helix Helix is a set of guidelines to help maintain clean architcture in MVC projects It was not designed from javascript Project dependencies Layers Project – Layouts.  Styling.  Presentation. Feature – […]

JSS Marketing Automation was lead by Perficient’s own Corey Smith and Rick Bauer.  The session started with attendees visiting a url to choose their favorite type of music.  They showed an entire JSS application with some basic analytics and goal tracking. Building a JSS app JSS enables rich front end UIs Makes your page feel faster […]

Headless CMS, The Great Uncoupling session was lead by Deane Barker from Blend Interactive.  It provided a look at how we got here and what makes a headless cms important. Software Why does software get bigger? Rational reasons Edge case support – people keep finding and using and edge case Economy of context – some things […]