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What kind of name is St-Cyr?
First… Thank you for asking! It’s always fun for me to talk about words and language. 😊 I was recently asked this again, and I decided to capture my response for everybody because this is not the first time somebody has wondered about my name with no vowels! Okay, the…
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Being ready as a parent for the tough questions
While sitting around the dinner table, some interesting discussions were happening… and it got me to thinking: sometimes parenting is just about being prepared for your kid to suddenly trigger discussions on gender identity or critical race theory or dictatorships (in the same week or conversation). I am so glad…
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My 2022 Unwrapped!
All these apps love telling you about all the stuff you did in the past year, so I started collecting them together along with my own look at things. Here’s how 2022 went for little old me! What didn’t work? A few of the #VoiceTheDocs videos got some decent views…
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I’m fine. How are you?
“Hi there, how are you?”“Fine, how are you?”“Fine, thank you.” I’ve seen this play out as some sort of passphrase to start a conversation. It seems people can’t get started without the secret social handshake. But nobody wants to hear the real answer to that question. I’m a little tired…
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Saying goodbye to an old friend
It was February 29th, 2020. I received a call from an old bandmate, who now lived in Edmonton. He used to be the lead singer in a band I had formed with friends, over 20 years before that. I hadn’t really seem him in quite a few years, so I…
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Eleventh day of Christmas… Blogs A-Plenty!
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… eleven re-blogged posts! …ten women of Sitecore, nine sessions of training, eight tweets a-tweeting, seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. As a fun twist, each post has…
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Eighth day of Christmas… Tweets a-tweeting!
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… eight tweets a-tweeting! …seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. With this blog, I’d like to bring back some of the tweets I liked in 2016 to…
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The 12 Blogs of Christmas are back for 2016!
I enjoyed the Christmas blogging so much last year that I decided to bring it back for 2016! Starting December 13th and all the way up to Christmas Eve on the 24th there will be a new blog on the site. Like last year, some will be helpful, and others will…
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Ninth day of Christmas… Nine Giphy’s Dancing!
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Nine giphy’s dancing, Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. Time for a little fun…
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An experiment in holiday festivities…
I’ve been quiet on the blog for a bit while I plan a new special feature for the blog. I felt like doing something a bit different this holiday season and will be bringing you something new: 12 Days of Christmas Blogs. Some will be serious, some will not be,…
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