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Latest articles

  • Bunkers & Badasses – Badass Tokens

    Bunkers & Badasses – Badass Tokens

    In this next look at the Bunkers & Badasses TTRPG by Nerdvana games, I want to take a quick look at the cost of doing Badass Moves. In the last article I covered the Badass Move, but not much about those Badass Tokens, or what it will cost to keep doing this over and over Read more

  • Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – Classic XP with Simple Personalization

    Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – Classic XP with Simple Personalization

    In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) solution that has been built as a classic Sitecore MVC implementation with simple personalization implemented. The scenario breakdown: Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and XP scenarios and how you can gradually migrate your Read more

  • And the award goes to… | A Tale from the Borderlands

    And the award goes to… | A Tale from the Borderlands

    I’m sure this is not going to completely backfire on us. I wasn’t wrong about the greeting party at the next stop. Turns out we arrived on some sort of bridge with an absolute enormity of a ship captain in charge. We thought quick and used those armor disguises as best we could. Luckily it seems Read more

  • An elevator not to be trusted | A Tale from the Borderlands

    An elevator not to be trusted | A Tale from the Borderlands

    Just another day of invading an airship… Sorry about that last log, we landed hot on an airship and things were… shaky. I never thought a ship like that would have such defenses. I had advised folks to come on the ship from behind, avoid the common defenses. We were almost blown out of the Read more

  • Remove your AddThis component by May 31, 2023

    Remove your AddThis component by May 31, 2023

    Oracle has announced that they will be turning off the AddThis service on May 31, 2023 which is going to impact a lot of websites around the web that have been using this for the easy social sharing icons that it provided. How does this affect you? From a Sitecore implementation perspective, you may have Read more

  • What kind of name is St-Cyr?

    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 ‘sometimes y’ vowel sorta counts, Read more