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  • Evangelist Year One – a Retrospective

    Evangelist Year One – a Retrospective

    Just over one year ago, I wrote about a big change in my career as I joined the Sitecore Technical Marketing team to work as the North American Technical Evangelist. Over the last 12 months, a lot has happened, and in typical agile fashion I’m looking back at what has been happening, what worked well, and… Read more

  • Sitecore 9 xDB Sharding

    Sitecore 9 xDB Sharding

    Have you ever wondered what is going on with those new Shard databases in Sitecore 9? This is the new xDB! The new Shard Manager stores data based on the contact ID. A contact ID is a GUID identifier that is unique for each contact. It looks something like this: B9814105-1F45-E611-82E6-34E6D7117DCB The xDB scales out… Read more

  • New Microsoft Planner Due Date Notifications

    New Microsoft Planner Due Date Notifications

    A short while ago I wrote about our team’s initial adoption of Microsoft Planner. At the time, we were having issues with the due dates feature because there seemed to be no way to view our schedule. A few months later, we ran into another issue with due dates. The complaint? Users were not being… Read more

  • Scaling Sitecore 9.0 XP Services

    The blog here has been a little quiet lately as I have started moving to creating content on the corporate site. I wanted to share something I worked on and has been posted on the Community blogs. Here you go: Scaling Sitecore xConnect and XP Services architecture In the linked blog you’ll get a brief overview… Read more

  • Continuous Improvement for Sitecore DevOps

    Continuous Improvement for Sitecore DevOps

    Did you miss out on my Montreal SUG presentation a few weeks back? Not to worry, I got your back! I recorded a run-through of my presentation and uploaded it so you can hear my thoughts on how we can continuously improve and invest in DevOps practices for our Sitecore projects. It’s not exactly what… Read more

  • Microsoft Planner – The task tracker we deserve

    Microsoft Planner – The task tracker we deserve

    For years, I have been a dedicated user of Trello as you may have seen in some blog posts. Recently, however, my team has been using O365 and Microsoft Teams in an effort to push Teams to its limit and get the most out of the integrations Microsoft has put together between all their tools.… Read more