Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore Symposium’

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 […]

The Fallacy of “Impossible” session was lead by Mick Ebeling of Not Impossible Labs.  What an inspirational and motivating session! What is Impossible Impossible is a fallacy Everything that is possible was impossible at one time Impossible is a temporary state of being Making Impossible, Possible Their motto is “Help 1, Help many” Use one person’s […]

The opening keynote was delivered by Mark Frost and Paige O’Neil from Sitecore to an audience of 3,000 attendees!  The theme of this year’s symposium was “Elevate the Experience”. My Takeaways Here are my notes from the session: People are not buying products, they are buying an experience The experience is the product 88% of […]

Another year, another great Sitecore Symposium! What a fantastic experience!  The Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin was a wonderful host hotel.  Lots of space for sessions.  Several unique food options on site.  Great conference meals for breakfast and lunch.  The bar and lounge in the Dolphin was the perfect place to hang out with co-workers […]

Sitecore Javascript Services has been a topic of massive interest at this year’s Sitecore Symposium. Every JSS session has been packed with attendees eager to learn more about JSS and how to use it. If you want to learn more about the basics of JSS, check out my recent post on how to get started […]

Sitecore performance is something I am passionate about. So “Measure, if you want to go faster” was a session I definitely didn’t want to miss at Sitecore Symposium. Here are my takeaways:  Use Tools Many developer tools have pretty great performance measuring tools built right in. The first tool Jeremy Davis, the session speaker, suggested for measuring performance […]