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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

  • Automating Sitecore Deployments with TeamCity and TDS

    During development, your team makes a lot of changes to fields, templates, presentation details, and various other elements that need to be tracked, verified, and deployed.  You need a way to source control those database changes, and then make them available to your team to test.  Here’s how to accomplish that using TeamCity and Team Read more

  • Source-controlling Sitecore: TDS Project Configuration Basics

    Your Sitecore content changes are just as important as the code you are writing for your solution, and that means you should be tracking those changes in source control.   Your team will be making a lot of changes to fields, templates, presentation details, and various other elements for which you will want version history.  This Read more

  • Managing the Agile Process

    Aaron Bjork made a great presentation at ALM Summit 2011.  I’ll be providing my insights into using TFS 2012 on projects in some upcoming posts, but I think Aaron did an awesome job of explaining some of the agile management issues, as well as showcasing some of the new features for agile management in TFS Read more

  • Firing Your QA Team is a Bad Idea

    So you want to transition to agile, and have started reading about how there are only a few roles in an agile team: Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Team Member.  In particular, you may be getting thrown off by this line from the Scrum Guide: Development Teams do not contain sub-teams dedicated to particular domains Read more

  • Hinshelwood’s “new normal”

    Not my own words, but I think that Martin Hinshelwood’s posting on the new normal of the modern application lifecycle is a very important read for anybody interested in getting ALM and agile processes working in today’s industry. Read more

  • What type of agile superstar are you?

    In a world of deadlines, tight budgets, and high expectations, sometimes we need that superstar on the team that can “get it done” so we don’t make our clients look bad.  On the many teams I have led, this superstar has shown up in a few different incarnations: The Hare You want it done by Read more