Tag: christmas

  • Twelfth day of Christmas… Deployment memes!

    Twelfth day of Christmas… Deployment memes!

    On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… twelve Deployment memes! …eleven blogs a-plenty, ten women of Sitecore, nine sessions of training, eight tweets a-tweeting, seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. Last year I brought you an installment…

  • Eleventh day of Christmas… Blogs A-Plenty!

    Eleventh day of Christmas… Blogs A-Plenty!

    On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… eleven re-blogged posts! …ten women of Sitecore, nine sessions of training, eight tweets a-tweeting, seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. As a fun twist, each post has…

  • Tenth day of Christmas… Women of Sitecore

    Tenth day of Christmas… Women of Sitecore

    On the tenth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… ten women of Sitecore! …nine sessions of training, eight tweets a-tweeting, seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. Nick Wesselman said it well in his post asking…

  • Ninth day of Christmas… Sessions of Training

    Ninth day of Christmas… Sessions of Training

    On the ninth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… nine sessions of training! …eight tweets a-tweeting, seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. Throughout 2016, Akshay Sura and Mike Reynolds have been bringing unofficial Sitecore…

  • Eighth day of Christmas… Tweets a-tweeting!

    Eighth day of Christmas… Tweets a-tweeting!

    On the eighth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… eight tweets a-tweeting! …seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. With this blog, I’d like to bring back some of the tweets I liked in 2016 to…

  • Seventh day of Christmas… VSTS features in 2016

    Seventh day of Christmas… VSTS features in 2016

    On the seventh day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… seven Team Services features! …six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. If you have been using Visual Studio Team Services, you know that Microsoft regularly releases new functionality to…

  • Sixth day of Christmas… Animated GIFs!

    On the sixth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… Six GIFs a-dancing! …five Golden Rules! Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. SIDE BAR: I don’t care what the creator of the acronym says, it’s pronounced with a hard G… I like my Gifs…

  • Fifth Day of Christmas… 5 Golden Rules

    Fifth Day of Christmas… 5 Golden Rules

    On the fifth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… Five Golden Rules! …four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. Last year I provided a list of golden rules for DevOps and this year we tackle golden rules for continuous delivery!

  • Fourth day of Christmas… Community Sites

    Fourth day of Christmas… Community Sites

    On the fourth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… Four Community Sites! .. three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. Community Docs Built by the community, this documentation covers everything from MVC to xDB to SPEAK: https://sitecore-community.github.io/docs/ Sitecore Community Forums Built by Sitecore,…

  • Third day of Christmas… Maturity Models!

    Third day of Christmas… Maturity Models!

    On the third day of Christmas my true blog gave to me… three maturity models! .. two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed. Customer Experience Maturity Model Sitecore released a maturity model a while back to guide organizations through the various stages of engaging a customer.  Great for seeing…

  • On the second day of Christmas… two Sitecore PaaS features

    On the second day of Christmas… two Sitecore PaaS features

    On the second day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… two Sitecore PaaS features: Redis Cache and Azure Search! …and a Sitecore in a NuGet feed. With Sitecore 8.2 Update 1, the PaaS offering shown at Symposium 2016 became available on Azure Marketplace along with ARM templates and much more.…

  • On the first day of Christmas… Sitecore in a NuGet Feed

    On the first day of Christmas… Sitecore in a NuGet Feed

    On the first day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… Sitecore in a NuGet feed! One of the great things announced this year was the Sitecore public NuGet feed for Sitecore DLLs. This really makes managing Sitecore dependencies on a project a lot easier and makes life deploying…

  • The 12 Blogs of Christmas are back for 2016!

    The 12 Blogs of Christmas are back for 2016!

    I enjoyed the Christmas blogging so much last year that I decided to bring it back for 2016! Starting December 13th and all the way up to Christmas Eve on the 24th there will be a new blog on the site. Like last year, some will be helpful, and others will…

  • Twelfth day of Christmas… Sitecore memes!

    Twelfth day of Christmas… Sitecore memes!

    On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Twelve memes of Sitecore, Eleven lips a-syncing, Ten WTFs, Nine giphy’s dancing, Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule…

  • Eleventh Day of Christmas… Lip Syncing!

    Eleventh Day of Christmas… Lip Syncing!

    On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Eleven lips a-syncing, Ten WTFs, Nine giphy’s dancing, Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree.…

  • Tenth day of Christmas… Ten WTFs!

    Tenth day of Christmas… Ten WTFs!

    On the tenth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Ten WTFs, Nine giphy’s dancing, Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. For years, I’ve…

  • Ninth day of Christmas… Nine Giphy’s Dancing!

    Ninth day of Christmas… Nine Giphy’s Dancing!

    On the ninth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Nine giphy’s dancing, Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. Time for a little fun…

  • Eighth day of Christmas… Scaling agile!

    Eighth day of Christmas… Scaling agile!

    On the eighth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. You may have found that a lot of…

  • Seventh day of Christmas… most-heard retrospective comments

    Seventh day of Christmas… most-heard retrospective comments

    On the seventh day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. Over the years, I’ve sat in a lot of sprint retrospectives.…

  • Sixth day of Christmas… Keystone config tips!

    Sixth day of Christmas… Keystone config tips!

    On the sixth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. There are a lot of configurations that come with the Keystone for Sitecore development accelerator,…

  • Fifth Day of Christmas… Five Golden Rules

    Fifth Day of Christmas… Five Golden Rules

    On the fifth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. Today I offer you some best DevOps practices for your delivery team. Do, or do not. There is no…

  • Fourth Day of Christmas… Continuous Integration tools!

    Fourth Day of Christmas… Continuous Integration tools!

    On the fourth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. We all love checking out tools, so here are four Continuous Integration applications you can put under your tree this Christmas!

  • Third day of Christmas… Powershell Scripts!

    Third day of Christmas… Powershell Scripts!

    On the third day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. Let’s unwrap those scripts!

  • 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!

  • 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…

  • 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,…