Once a upon a time we were creating a website using Sitecore. We met in the conference room and started pretty peacefully. We were peaceful when were discussing how many page types we would need, we were still peaceful when we were talking what rendering we would have on each page type, and then… Someone […]
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xDB: Tracking the Untrackable – Part 2
[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]In part 1 I showed you how you can make untrackable MVC and Web API endpoints trackable. Let’s see what we now can do with it.[/su_note] Attribution A little bit of xDB glossary first. A visit is an interaction. A hit is a page. If we just start tracking our MVC and Web API […]
xDB Reports with Powershell
101 First things first. To collect analytics you have to make sure you tell Sitecore you are not a robot: Also, if you are running locally you may as well disable robots: Next, if you have a way to identify your users you have to do so explicitly. The site I am working on is […]
Duplicate Setting Can Kill You
An Important Question Setting Imagine that you have a config patch I.Am.The.Only.One.config with: Then for some environments you add Nope.You.Are.Not.config with: You probably wanted it to be: but you forgot. To Be Sitecore can handle a duplicate setting. It will complain on startup: but then it will pick one of the two values and it […]
Web API, SimpleInjector, and AnalyticsDataController
Sitecore.Services.Client I am currently working on a very unique app. It’s not a traditional Sitecore architecture. Very far from it actually. Data driven, lots of client side renderings over raw data (JSON), dynamically loaded content fragments, and topped with personalization, analytics, and Sitecore playing content as a service role. Very cool I must say. Long […]
Sitecore on Windows 10: Language Storm
[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]A colleague of mine – Maryna Veller – has discovered and diagnosed a very interesting issue with Sitecore’s language resolution on Windows 10. This blog post is the result of her findings[/su_note] Sunny Morning You have a site. Perfectly architected, beautifully built, working like a well oiled machine on Sitecore 8 and Windows 8. […]
Updated Sitecore XP Roadmap Revealed at MVP Summit
One of the benefits to being a Sitecore MVP and working for a Sitecore Platinum Implementation Partner is having access to Sitecore’s roadmap and planning. A couple of weeks ago Sitecore provided advanced access to a Release to Technology (RTT) version of Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) 8.1 which is due out sometime in the next […]
Modular JavaScript in Sitecore Renderings with RequireJS
You may have found yourself in one of more of the following situations in using JavaScript in your Sitecore renderings: A huge block of <script> tags in your <head> tag or at the end of your <body> tag that may or may not be used by your renderings but loaded regardless. Loading dependencies with a […]
Effortless Backups with Powershell and AWS
[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]I am not an operations guy but often my Sitecore backups needs are not sky high either. Maybe you are running a QA environment that your client starts using to play with content population. While that content is not exactly real they would prefer that the content doesn’t vanish overnight. Or maybe there’s a […]