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Upgrading Sitecore CLI for Developers in Local Environments

Pipelines are a great illustration, and how Sitecore items flow from development to production is a critical process to keep things moving. When we upgraded to Sitecore 10.2, Sitecore CLI was embraced as the new development workflow and deployment tool. Sitecore CLI promotes Sitecore items the development team builds

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Minimizing Schema Changes to Sitecore Indexes

I ran into a delimma recently with making some changes to the schema.xml that was purposed for a site in a multi-site Sitecore instance. With Solr, I was attempting to implement EdgeNGram for searching and realized adding a field mapping for a new field type in the index impacted

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Separating Responsibility with Sitecore

In recent work with Sitecore, Solr has been recently introduced to some development I have been working on. The work required writing several instances in which we needed to query Solr for some information. At this time, I wanted some way of profiling and logging how these methods were operating,

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Rinse and Repeat with Sitecore

The concept of rinse and repeat is try to keep development very iterative and automate the development process locally. Gulp and Grunt have been huge for task runners for frontend developers when it comes to preprocessors for LESS or SASS. Or, adding a linter for JavaScript development. It helps us

Web Ethics and Source Control

Web Ethics has so much depth and it is difficult to take one idea and have it cover what it really means to be ethical in building and shipping for the web. Ethics is the "defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct."1 I like this

Sitecore with Angular JS Part 1

AngularJS is a great framework for a couple reasons: Data binding which is fantastic for working with JSON Module based approach Dependency injection Testable I wanted to provide a simple example for anyone to get started with incorporating AngularJS into a Sitecore implementation. This article will go over creating: a

Balancing Project Needs

Quick Read Balancing project needs requires 100% commitment throughout the project. It would be as if we created our product backlog, prioritized it and called it good. For anyone that has worked on a Scrum team knows that this is not possible. When internal ideals get ahead of the project

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Sitecore 7 Indexing with Code

Several years ago, the Advanced Database Crawler and Searcher made it much easier to work with Sitecore's Lucene indexes. It made a similified way to create custom indexes and query those indexes. It included a helpful tool to rebuild those indexes on content delivery instances if needed. The Sitecore Support

Source Control

SubVersion Migration

This post is one of multiple posts to come on experiences learned from source control. Below are the long term goals: Restructure the repository and split out projects appropriately Migrate the source control to a new server as the old server is being decommissioned Move to Team Foundation Server Current

South Colorado .NET User Group - SpecFlow

For the South Colorado .NET User Group meeting, we had Rudy Lacovara speak on SpecFlow. SpecFlow follows much of the Behavior Driven Development model. Other examples of this in the wild are Cucumber/Gerkin in the Ruby community. SpecFlow allows developers to write automated tests in a "natural language

2008 HighEdWeb General Session with Jeffery Veen

Last month, I wrote a post on my experience at the 2008 High Ed Web Conference. HighEdWeb just released their general sessions through YouTube. Track Sessions are also available via podcast feed. I've posted the session on data visualization by Jeffery Veen below:

Nu Tech Presentation - Test Driven Development

In March of 2008, I had my first presentation I've done at a technology conference, NU Technology Day. I had the opportunity to team up with Brett Bieber from University Communications. I was first introduced to the concept of Test Driven Development in November 2007 when Brett presented the concept

Extensible Markup Language (XML) - Getting Started

Extensible Markup Language was fairly new to web technologies when I first heard of it in 2000. Though at the time the version 1.0 specification from the W3C was only two years old. Since it’s introduction it has many applications. XML has had two applications in my development.

Lincoln .NET User Group - Hudl

The Lincoln .NET Users Group is a new gathering in Lincoln, Nebraska of .NET developers. Once a month, the group schedules a meeting, invites speakers on various .NET topics and discusses how they are used to business application. In October, I was able to attend the Agile Sports presentation on

2008 HighEdWeb Conference

HighEdWeb is a conference for web professionals in higher education. This year’s conference was held at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. The High Ed Web conference was my first web development conference I’ve been to. When I was an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, I was