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  • Second day of Christmas… Keystone merge tips!

    Second day of Christmas… Keystone merge tips!

    On the second day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. Let’s check out those merge tips! Read more

  • First day of Christmas… Rules for nested placeholders!

    First day of Christmas… Rules for nested placeholders!

    On the first day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: a placeholder rule in the content tree! One of the nice things that comes with Keystone for Sitecore are some built-in rules that let you set placeholder settings via the rules engine. We’ve done things like create re-usable groupings and site-specific rules, but recently… Read more

  • An experiment in holiday festivities…

    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, but I will be trying… Read more

  • Can I have my DevOps Fluffy with a side of Culture?

    Can I have my DevOps Fluffy with a side of Culture?

    Wednesday afternoon, while at the DevOps East Conference, I attended a Continuous Integration (CI) session delivered by Chris Riley (@HoardingInfo). Chris was sharing his past experiences with CI and how to best roll it out to all types of organizations. I particularly liked his suggestion of putting the QA team front and center, as I agree that there… Read more

  • Sitecore DevOps: Scaling content deployments

    When a solution is in operational support, handling ongoing changes in the Sitecore database can be challenging. System admins and content marketers need to be able to make changes in production authoring, the maintenance team needs to make quick fixes through all environments, and the development team needs to be able to build out new features.… Read more

  • SUGCON – Day Two

    The end of SUGCON arrived as quickly as it started. I had a chance to see a little of the commerce panel this morning before I started prepping for my own presentation. It wasn’t until I walked out of the Rosedown room that I felt like I could finally relax, enjoy lunch, and not think… Read more