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A Sitecore Upgrade Devlog - Part II: RTFM, getting started, NuGet packages, breaking changes, deprecation

Apr 6, 20217 min read

This is the second part of a devlog I started a week ago. Today, I am covering more documentation and highlighting some things that might interest you. Next, I get started with the upgrade and share some issues I encountered. To give a bit more conte...

7zip hacks for Sitecore developers

Mar 25, 20216 min read

In this post, I share how you can use 7-Zip command-line tool to automate some tasks when dealing with .zip files. Additionally, I share two simple commands that can help you to remove some undesirable folders from a zipped website and remove specifi...

A Sitecore Upgrade Devlog - Part I: Initial Assessment, Estimates, Risk Assessment and Planning

Mar 22, 202116 min read

This series of devlogs is intended to help beginners with the Sitecore upgrade work. You’ll follow along with my thought processes and what you need to start an upgrade. If you did upgrades in the past, you will find most of the content here is drea...

Getting started with Fitbit development - Part I: Sign Up, Fitbit Studio, CLI, Visual Studio Code, and Hello World

Mar 21, 20217 min read

This is a first of a series of blog posts where I share how you can get started with developing a Fitbit application. If you are into sports, have a Fitbit watch and want to build something cool on it, then stick with me on this amazing hello world a...

Stop hand editing the managed schema on Solr and use the Schema API

Mar 12, 20217 min read

Sitecore 9.x offers the option to populate the managed schema file in Solr at the click of a button. Sometimes, you might need to edit the managed schema file to add a new custom field. This is especially true in multi-language sites. Solr offers an ...

Auto reload Sitecore logs with Baretail

Mar 11, 20214 min read

Update 12-03-2021 Events, event subscriptions, and the event queue exist only in the current session. If you close the Powershell console, the event subscription is canceled and Baretail won't reload files anymore. Since we are monitoring the C:\inet...