Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

What a fantastic week! Sitecore Symposium was this week. There were a lot of announcements about what is coming to Sitecore in the near future. Sitecore 9.3’s release is imminent. This blog post is about what has me the most excited for this release and beyond. There are three major Sitecore development approaches with Sitecore […]

Magic Johnson started his keynote by coming out into different sections of the audience and letting people take pictures and give them high-fives. A great way to start off making connections with the audience.  He continued this trend by delivering his entire speech while standing amongst the audience rather than on the stage.  For every […]

Jeffery Rondeau gave a great presentation on the Sitecore rules engine and showed some things you can do with it other than personalization.  My favorite was limiting the number of instances of a given component on a single page (think hero images). Here are my key takeaways: What can you do with the Sitecore Rules […]

In this session, we were shown some of the basic editing and extension capabilities of the new UI for in context page editing. The new UI is fast, sleek, and modern. Some of my key takeaways were: Sitecore Strategy Initiatives Project Horizon: New UI for editing site pages and content Releasing in Sitecore 9.3 Easy, […]

Today’s opening session was really motivating. We discussed consumer intent while online shopping and examined how to build a human connection with emotion. Considering the continued growth and ability of AI, we also heard about how it can help us in the future. Case Study: Lowes Canada How to connect the store and the website? […]

Blazor is Microsoft’s very new and exciting technology. This session was led by two Sitecore MVPs and showed a proof of concept for creating a JSS framework for Blazor. Since Blazor is not yet supported by Sitecore, the project is community-driven. Here are my key takeaways from their presentation: What is Blazor? A new web […]

The official day one of Sitecore Symposium 2019 was full of information. At the end of the day, Sitecore announced the ultimate experience award winners for the Americas region, while CEO Mark Frost gave a few additional thoughts on customer experience. Sitecore CMO Paige O’Neil announced the Ultimate Experience Awards 2019 – Americas, Subway 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 […]

This session was presented by Matthew Dubbs, Sitecore test specialist, and Jason St-Cyr, Sitecore manager, test evangelists. Overall, the session discussed getting more out of your installation and performance testing. Here are my key takeaways: Why performance test? Avoid late night support calls Being down is bad: Amazon was down for 15 minutes in July […]

The opening keynote brings all the conference attendees into one room and highlights great speakers to get the conference started.  This year’s theme is “Human Connections in a Digital World.” Below, I have recapped my key takeaways from each speaker’s presentation. For more session reviews, be sure to follow me. Sitecore CEO Thoughts The CEO […]

During the spectacle of the Sitecore Symposium 2019 opening keynote, Sitecore CEO Mark Frost casually dropped a little nugget of news about the future of Sitecore: a software-as-a-service option is launching in 2020 and will evolve into a new offering. A collective (but silent) groan could be heard from the developers in the room. Was […]

I am thrilled to once again attend Sitecore Symposium in Orlando, FL. Each year, this event is a chance for my Perficient Digital Sitecore team to gather in one place to learn, grow, collaborate, and share our practice. Like last year, I will be posting session review blogs about those I attend, so follow me […]