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• Don’t Fight The Framework Pt V – Sitecore’s built on Sitecore so build your site on Sitecore.

  Originally posted on CardinalCore: This one will be a relatively quick one ( hopefully before the girlfriend finds out I am working on our holiday 😉 ). Continuing on in the Don’t Fight The Framework series, I thought I would discuss a topic that has kind of formed the more I have worked with Web… Read more

  August 17, 2014

• Going Lean: Tips from the trenches

  Continuous refinement is always in need when working in an agile delivery framework. The first thing you learn when you adopt a framework is that it does not work for all situations. Scrum, like other models, works really well in particular development situations. Sometimes, however, you need to transition your team to something leaner for a Read more

  August 10, 2014

• 5 things Sitecore training won’t prepare you for

  This past week I had the pleasure of pair programming with a new member of our team at nonlinear. I don’t say that sarcastically, as it actually was a lot of fun to bring another person into the fold, fresh off of Sitecore certification. It’s also been a while since I’ve done any pair programming, Read more

  August 4, 2014

• Clearer requirements through Sitecore prototyping

  Recently, my colleagues and I were about to embark on a mission to gather requirements for an upcoming release. We had already worked with this particular client and therefore knew that they would have a solid understanding of their existing solution, if not the full capabilities of the Sitecore platform. For the new requirements, we Read more

  July 28, 2014

• Using subfolders for Sitecore config files

  Recently, I’ve been changing the organization method I’m using when architecting builds for my clients. Sitecore supports automatically patching in include files from subfolders of App_Config\Include, which allows for architecting project-specific overrides and environment-specific settings in a much cleaner manner. Kamruz Jaman just wrote a great post about this on Friday. The upshot? Stop putting your files Read more

  July 20, 2014

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  Upcoming VS Online licensing changes greatly helping Microsoft’s position

  Last week, Brian Harry announced on his blog some upcoming changes to the Visual Studio Online licensing.  Word is that the changes should be coming in the next few months (an August-like timeframe is mentioned).  The announced changes are going to be a great help in positioning Microsoft against some of their competition in the Application Lifecycle Read more

  July 14, 2014