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I have only been working with Octopus Deploy for a year but its one of my favorite tools. We depend on it for our end to end 100% automated deployments to all of our environments. The trick is to set it up properly in the first place. I was able to get some guidance from Kamruz Jaman when I got started and that helped me immensely to understand Octopus Deploy.
Continue Reading →SiteCron 2.1.3 has been released to GitHub & NuGet. I use this module on my projects quite a bit and I have been meaning to release an upgrade for the longest time.
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This blog post will go through how I setup my solution in a Continuous Integration environment. A true Continuous Integration and Delivery environment would need very little human intervention.
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Alright let’s address the elephant in the room! Kam Figy is not the creator of Unicorn, Kamruz Jaman is. This post is not mean to sing praises of Unicon or the Kams as we callz it. It is mainly to show how we use Unicorn to build our end to end deployment from a dev machine to the production CD’s using Unicorn for serialization.
Continue Reading →Recently we have been going through a series of SEO tweaks based on recommendations from our SEO Expert. Several of them are very interesting to look into and the reasoning and how search engines rank sites based on that is amazing.
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I recently had to customize a General Link SPEAK dialog to add a NoFollow checkbox so that we can add a rel=”nofollow” on certain links on the site. At first, I was scared of SPEAK and I did not SPEAK yet! 😉
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This post is all about creating a Helix based solution from scratch. Please watch the video for additional information and a demo of the script. I really discourage people from using Habitat as the base to create new solutions. Hopefully this script will help.
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I have been doing quite a bit of performance testing lately. I promised Nathaneal Mann a while back that I would include Sitecore Boost while testing performance. Nat has done a lot of work around performance and he has put together Sitecore Boost. Its fairly simple to install and you can find all the information on his GitHub page: https://github.com/cardinal252/Sitecore.Boost
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Recently I had to re-tool our Continuous Integration and Deployment environments due to a Sitecore Helix based solution. As part of that process I ended up using Octopus Deploy for the first time and I love it. I do not know how I did not use it before. I will have an upcoming blog post on how I setup our Octopus Deploy environment.
Continue Reading →Sitecore 8.2 was released with Microsoft Dependency Injection and with the recent release of Sitecore 8.2.1 it was finally time for me to do what I have been promising. I wanted to take an existing solution which was on production using Simple Injector (My Favorite framework), test it again the same solution but with Microsoft DI.
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