I'm a programmer. Currently working with C# and Sitecore.
Sitecore Search
Integrating two specific platforms can sometimes feel like hula hooping at the Olympics. But it can also give you insights into solutions that can be applied to other integrations as well. Authentication hurdles and multilingual requirements are a common scenario and for both I have some insights and learnings to
Sitecore Search
Unless you have been replaced by AI, there is a chance that you will be the one to add multiple languages to your Sitecore website. When you want to integrate this with Sitecore Search, there are a few things you need to know. Let's try to see how
XM Cloud
When working with XM Cloud, there is a fundamental difference in how serialized items are handled during a deployment. This can lead to some unwanted side effects with your data or templates. In this blog post, we explore how you can automate some maintenance tasks to avoid unexpected situations. Deploying
XM Cloud
How often did you get a bug ticket and whished you could try to reproduce the issue on a development environment with the content from production? Or how many times would you have liked to see how a new release is affecting the production content before promoting it from the
Sitecore Search
A facetted search can provide a good user experience. But not all facets might have the same importance and some you might even want to hide. In this blog post we will have a look at some configuration options for facets in Sitecore Search. What we want to achieve A
Sitecore Search
When we think of a search solution, our brains might immediately jump to the use case of displaying search results for a user query. There are however many more use cases. This blog post shows how you can configure Sitecore Search to provide a component with data to display upcoming
Sitecore Search
What started out as a small piece of code to extract some metadata fields from your website markup is slowly growing in complexity. Testing, maintaining and extending your document extractor code is getting tougher. There is a very handy tool to change your development experience and speed up your work.
Sitecore Search
We try to build our websites based on a modern technology stack. But every now and then, we are asked to integrate an API that returns a 5MB junk of XML into our platform. If it's not just me this sends shivers down the spine, you might want
Sitecore Search
You just got access to Sitecore Search. Full of energy, you login for the first time and you stare at the screen with absolutely no idea what to do next. This was me, just a few months ago. In the meantime, I spent quite some time with the tool and
Sitecore
As your code base grows, you might observe certain patterns to emerge and you start repeating very similar pieces of code over and over. This is usually a good indicator that a refactoring might be a good idea.
Sitecore
So, we talked about Model Builders to clean up your Sitecore Controllers in the last blog post [https://www.studert.com/cleaning-up-sitecore-controllers/]. Now you might be wondering: "Well, this sounds nice. It looks like some sort of design pattern - I guess design patterns are a good thing. But
Sitecore
Ever since the day I read the blog post by Paul Stovell [https://twitter.com/paulstovell] about cleaning up ASP.NET MVC Controllers [http://paulstovell.com/blog/clean-aspnet-mvc-controllers] back in 2012, I knew the day would come where I wanted to clean-up my controllers. By introducing NitroNet for Sitecore [https: