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Awesome August!!! Was so fortunate to attend 3 excellent presentations in 2 Sitecore User Group Meetups. Also Co-organized SUG Queen City, Manchester, NH meetups with Mike Reynolds. 🙂 Aug’2018 Meetup SUG Queen City, Manchester, NH Attended two excellent presentations by Corey Smith and Jeff Darchuk. Corey presented on “Sitecore and MVC A-to-Z” whereas Jeff talked... Continue Reading →
"Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I'll spend first 4 sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln In my previous blog post we assessed Where we are starting from? Now its time to brainstorm and decide Where we want to head towards? As a next step we need to research, analyze and decide a lot... Continue Reading →
Before diving in, access how deep the water is. Until and unless you belongs to that rare breed of an IT team which have everything well documented, it's always better to do a postmortem of your existing state of Project and document at least those critical things which may impact the Upgrade. Especially the list... Continue Reading →
Incessant improvements, keep on introducing something new and regularly fixing the existing bugs are the key qualities of a successful Product. Sitecore is undoubtedly not an exception in this stream. Releasing timely version upgrades, intermediate updates and various patches is the beauty of Sitecore which makes it more powerful, extendable and robust. As s result, these... Continue Reading →
Sitecore Developer Trial Old days are gone with dependency on client licenses for the willingness to learn/explore something new on Sitecore. Long awaited, Sitecore have launched the Developer Trial program where you can download a 60 days trail license and start exploring whatever you like to. It’s such a great news for the folks who... Continue Reading →
On an upgraded instance to Sitecore 9, we are getting the following exception: Could not resolve type name: Sitecore.Data.SqlServer.SqlServerProxyDataProvider, Sitecore.Kernel (method: Sitecore.Configuration.DefaultFactory.CreateFromTypeName(XmlNode configNode, String[] parameters, Boolean assert)). If you decompile Sitecore.Kernel.Dll on your old Sitecore Version and compare it with one on Sitecore 9, you will notice that Sitecore.Data.Proxies namespace has been deprecated now. Additionally... Continue Reading →
During the process of upgrading Sitecore from an older version to Sitecore 9, you may face various errors/issues which are due to either: Old namespaces/syntax are obsolete/deprecated OR Approach to implement the logic is revamped/improved OR Additional settings/configuration are needed to make it work Currently we are upgrading Sitecore 7.2 to Sitecore 9. Since it... Continue Reading →
Jocund July!!! Was so fortunate to attend 3 excellent presentations in 2 Sitecore User Group Meetups. Also Co-organized SUG Queen City, Manchester, NH meetups with Mike Reynolds. 🙂 SUG July’2018 Meetup Queen City, Manchester, NH Attended two excellent presentations by Rob Habraken and Hugo Santos. Rob presented on “A futuristic showcase of the omni-channel capabilities of... Continue Reading →
Hope you submitted your responses for Sitecore Experience Survey 2018, if not please do it now without any delays. Our answers will help Sitecore to improvise the developer experiences in many ways. While filling up the survey I came across a page which lists 40+ tools/modules which can be utilized to either develop or debug or... Continue Reading →
