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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

  • Federated Identity in Visual Studio Online

    Federated Identity in Visual Studio Online

    This great post by Mitch Denny provides insights into federating Visual Studio Online using Azure Active Directory. The techniques described for enabling the federation without exposing either organization’s internal directories is of great use for consultant/integrator groups who are working with multiple clients and need to protect their information. Read more

  • Sitecore 7.1: CSRF form field is missing

    Sitecore 7.1: CSRF form field is missing

    During a review of a solution we were delivering on Sitecore 7.1 Update 2 (rev 140324), our Page Editor dialogs no longer allowed users to expand tree lists when adding components. On the server, the logs were showing a CSRF exception,  specifically that a CSRF form field was missing. 6708 16:19:44 ERROR Application error. Exception: Sitecore.Security.AntiCsrf.Exceptions.PotentialCsrfException… Read more

  • How I know a project plan is total nutbars… and how it can be fixed

    We have all seen the magical project plans that have no grounding in reality. Schedules are far too aggressive, scope is beyond what the team can handle, not enough resources available to properly run the team… all to meet some magical “hard deadline” that has been imposed seemingly without any reason. The folks in charge… Read more

  • Sitecore publishing: what does it mean?

    Over time, our team has realized that when we are speaking to a client about publishing in Sitecore, we may not all be talking about the same thing. There really are three “publish” contexts that a client may be referring to: workflow approval, web database publishing, and content delivery cache clearing. Trying to make this clear to… Read more

  • 4 ways to change so you can deliver more often

    I am a big fan of continuous delivery and deployment. You might have seen me write about it a few times before. When I first bring the idea up with clients, there is hesitation. One might even call it fear. The benefits are huge, allowing you to reap the return on investment immediately, but the big… Read more

  • How Visual Studio Online won me over in under 90 minutes

    How Visual Studio Online won me over in under 90 minutes

    For the last year or so, I’ve been living in a mostly Atlassian world: JIRA OnDemand, BitBucket, SourceTree… likely more before the year is done. Sure, I still use our on-premise TFS 2010 at work along with Visual Studio of various editions, but my ALM world has really been rocked by those gorgeous tools from Atlassian.… Read more