Controlling Docker

Outside of the ease of standardizing my development teams environments through the usage of containers running on Docker, I'm excited about the possibilities around providing easy access to demo sites for my sales team members as well. Anyone reading with a technical background, may think that this a bit crazy of an idea, but by …

A Simple Introduction to Docker

When building a new application or making updates to existing, no matter the complexity the more repeatable the process, the more successful and efficent your team can be. Anyone that has worked in the Sitecore ecosystem has seen the product become more complex as the features of the platform have been enhanced and refined. A …

Sitecore Virtual Develpoper Day 2020

On March 18th, 2020, Sitecore will be hosting their 3rd annual Virtual Developer Day. This is a chance for the Sitecore community to virtually come together to learn and interact. Watching a mixture of live and pre-recorded videos from MVPs and Sitecore employees. You can find the listing of presenters at https://www.sitecore.com/company/news-events/events/2020/03/sitecore-virtual-developer-day. Click your region …

Sitecore MVP 2020

Spring is starting to toy with us here in Cleveland, OH, as the remnants of snow begin to melt away, it is always exciting to welcome welcome a new class of Sitecore MVPs. For the fourth year, I have been humbly honored with a Sitecore Technology MVP. I am looking forward to another year supporting …

Creating Helix Solutions

At Sitecore Symposium 2019, Helix 2.0 was announced and released. The Helix documentation provides best practice recommendations when developing for Sitecore. Helix 2.0 provides clarification as well as enhanced examples to help provide developer guidance to Sitecore. To learn more about the principles of Helix see the official documentation at [helix.sitecore.net]. When applying the Helix …

Sitecore 9.3 Uninstall Script

With Sitecore 9.2, developers where once again re-warded with a GUI interface to installation called the Sitecore Install Assistant or SIA. With the arrival of 9.3, the SIA has gotten some nice upgrades, such as Solr install and SXA installation. (Now if they could bake Habitat Home in, it would be the perfect demo setup …

Sitecore API Native Support for Solr Suggest

This is first in what I'll deem to be a sporadic series on features and functionalities you might not realize exist in Sitecore. With each new release and the move towards 'micro-service' style architecture of the platform, little gems are included, but do not make the bright, shiny headline, this series will work to unveil …

Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Solr Setup

Installing Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) is fairly simple. You first install the package for Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE). Then the SXA package...then your done right?...well if you do not follow the installation guide closely, you'll end up like me after every install with broken features as you never installed and configured the required Solr index …

Sitecore Intall Errors with SQL Command Not Found

When of my favorite things is to kick-off a Sitecore Install Framework (SIF) script see things flash on the screen, leave to refresh my coffee and return to a little red message, instead of the pleasant blue all pass message....erghhh... With each iteration of SIF, the error messaging has gotten better. But once in awhile …

Get an MVC View as a String

I have had this snippet of code for a couple of years now, and use it pretty regularly on sites. After my most recent project, I realized this is the type of code snippet that should be out in the attic for longterm storage. So what is this gem of snippet....a handful of lines of …