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  • 2016 Sitecore Symposium – Day One

    2016 Sitecore Symposium – Day One

    With the MVP Summit wrapped up, it was time to welcome the opening of Sitecore Symposium 2016. The Hyatt is looking very spiffy with all the Sitecore branding and lots of folks are arriving to check in. However, before I can get officially underway with my Symposium fun, I needed to put my body through… Read more

  • 2016 Sitecore MVP Summit – Day Two

    2016 Sitecore MVP Summit – Day Two

    The second day of MVP Summit 2016 started with a bit of a rushed breakfast down in the Hyatt lobby with some fellow MVPs. I was wondering whether I should bring my laptop or not to our offsite meetings today, but I decided to lug the bag with us and get down to join folks… Read more

  • 2016 Sitecore MVP Summit – Day One

    2016 Sitecore MVP Summit – Day One

    Like many of the MVPs who travelled to New Orleans this year, the trip began in the wee early hours of the morning. A 3:30am alarm gets me up and ready for the 4:00am taxi to the airport with a driver who thankfully understood I had no desire to chat at this hour of the… Read more

  • Using email addresses as your Sitecore username

    Using email addresses as your Sitecore username

    Are you storing extranet users in the Sitecore database? Want the user to sign in with their email address to easily remember their username? By default, Sitecore doesn’t allow email address formats to be stored in the username field, but never fear, it can be done! The Sitecore setting ‘AccountNameValidation‘ sets a regular expression that gets used to… Read more

  • This has been a Sitecore Burst!

    This has been a Sitecore Burst!

    One of my new ventures this year was to try my hand at creating short Sitecore help videos, under a minute. I wanted to be able to speak not just to developers, but sitecore admins and content authors as well. My good colleague Grant (@GrantReadAccess) has been helping out and together we’ve got a few… Read more

  • Corello brings dashboards to your Trello life

    Corello brings dashboards to your Trello life

    A while back, Corello came across my desk as something to look into for reporting on Trello boards. It took me some time to finally get around to it, but I’m glad I finally did. If you use Trello at any scale, you have probably hit the limits of your capacity to really get a… Read more