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TTRPG and Writing

After a (very) long hiatus from gaming I recently got back into Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) and it has reignited some of my creative writing as well. Tips, tricks, and stories abound! Come along for the adventure!

Perforce Puppet

Dig into this new section about Perforce Puppet with news and FAQs and tutorials on one of the leading Enterprise infrastructure automation tools on the market.

DevRel and Technical Product Marketing

As a professional creator in DevRel and product marketing, I like to share my thoughts on what I’ve been learning about, how to improve your DevRel craft, and how to connect and help your community. Being in DevRel is honestly one of the most satisfying career tracks I’ve had!

Sitecore

I lived/breathed/wrote about Sitecore for over a decade, even if I have now moved on to another community. Over that time, I have covered quite a few topics. Jump into this section if you want to see my collection of news, guides, and community content from over the years!

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Latest articles

  • TDS Custom Post Deploy Actions

    TDS Custom Post Deploy Actions

    With the release of TDS 5.5, deployments now support post-deploy actions with a few out of the box options. However, you can even add your own custom actions into the flow. With a little help from Hedgehog Sitecore MVP Sean Holmesby (Thanks Sean!), I was able to get this working using the following six easy… Read more

  • Patch delete Sitecore elements based on element content

    Patch delete Sitecore elements based on element content

    Recently, I wrote about patching Sitecore instances for specific roles. During my research on how to do this, I was able to use a manner of Sitecore patching I had not previously known about. With a patch:instead, instead of targeting an attribute of the element you can actually target the contents of that element. (Thanks to @jammykam… Read more

  • Sitecore DevOps: Deploying instance role configurations with solution

    Sitecore DevOps: Deploying instance role configurations with solution

    Those of you who have installed Sitecore in a scaled environment (i.e. multiple instances) know that the process can be somewhat tedious. To configure an instance to use a specific role, you need to manually enable/disable/modify config files to make the instance act as a delivery, authoring, or processing instance. Oh, do you also want to upgrade… Read more

  • Sitecore announces 2016 MVPs

    Sitecore announces 2016 MVPs

    It’s that time of year again: Sitecore has announced the 2016 MVPS! I was again honoured to see my name on the list for the third year in a row. You can see the full list of 2016 MVPs on the Sitecore MVP site. My outward reaction when reading the email may have been calm and professional, but inside… Read more

  • Where are the roles in my TDS update package?

    Where are the roles in my TDS update package?

    Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) supports the ability to manage your Sitecore roles within your TDS projects in Visual Studio. This ensures that important roles defined for things like workflow or other security needs can be deployed to all your environments. Recently, I was building my packages for deployment to production and was going through… Read more

  • Sitecore SMTP messages throw “device not ready” error

    Sitecore SMTP messages throw “device not ready” error

    This was an odd one that came up during a recent project. My colleague Kevin had activated our standard Keystone workflow email notifications and configured the SMTP settings for the Sitecore application. A short workflow test later and not only were emails not going out but an error was occurring with the message: “The device is not… Read more