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Watch Robbie go headless
Lately, a few colleagues and me were brainstorming about a new concept for a customer, discovering new capabilities, and tinkering about innovations and how they could change the interaction with their users. It isn’t a new topic at all, but what if we could remove most of the user interface and focus on only those …
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Sitecore Technology MVP 2019!
For the fourth year in a row, I am happy to announce that I have been named Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Sitecore! As a Technology MVP I am one of only 186 Sitecore professionals worldwide that have been awarded with an MVP title in this category. It really means a lot to me to be …
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Symposium 2018
Wine improves with age. So does Sitecore! Symposium has been great this year. The overall quality of the sessions was high, the keynotes were very informative – including more live demos and actual product presentations than ever – and the guest keynotes were immensely inspirational! Out of all the news and presentations, we could distill …
Integrated DevOps
Integrated DevOps with Azure, Git, PowerShell & Slack At the Sitecore Symposium 2018 edition I hosted a session about how to optimize the DevOps process around your automated deployments using Azure DevOps, demoing how we got our development environment to the next level of maturity, increasing the developer productivity and fun of our Sitecore software …
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Sitecore Azure scripts update
My colleague Anton Kuryan revamped my Azure scripts, removing duplicate code and adding several new features. Check out https://github.com/robhabraken/Sitecore-Azure-Scripts for the latest version! One parameterized PowerShell script When I first wrote these scripts, I used the Sitecore templates as a starting point, creating multiple folders for the different setups single, double and full (referring to …
Hot Swappin’
Deploy & swap your Sitecore Azure Web App without downtime This blog post is the product of my cooperation with Mark de Bruijne, senior lead developer at Colours. Mark extended my Azure ARM scripts with the optimizations shown below, based on his research to avoid downtime on swapping, and helped me tremendously with writing this …
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Sitecore Technology MVP 2018!
For the third year in a row, I am happy to announce that I have been awarded the Sitecore MVP award! For this year, I’m a Technology MVP again. The Cloud category no longer exists, because Sitecore believes we all should go Cloud. And I couldn’t agree more. Of course, I will keep my Cloud and …
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All the goodies from Sym 2017
The latest release of Sitecore, version 9.0, has been named the Sitecore Experience Cloud, which introduces xConnect, Cortex, a new Commerce version and enhanced Cloud capabilities. Next to content management and marketing automation, these technologies complete the full stack needed for a realizing a rich, flexible and extensible digital experience. This blog post gives you …
Can you be my friend, Robbie?
Last week, Bas Lijten and I presented at the Sitecore Symposium 2017 in Las Vegas about our ‘Futuristic Showcase of the Omni-channel Capabilities of Sitecore XP’. We have shown the audience the power of Sitecore’s omni-channel marketing capabilities and what you can do with adding Microsoft Cognitive Services and Internet-of-Things into the game! We did …
Azure templates update
Since we’re using ARM style provisioning and Sitecore deployments for a while now at Colours, it’s time for an update. First of all, because there were some changes per Sitecore 8.2 Update 3, and secondly, because we have improved our scripts and want to share a few learnings. Check out the new scripts and templates …
Rob Habraken
Software Engineer, Technology Director, Senior Consultant, Sitecore MVP and overall technology addict. Specialized in web development, Microsoft technology and, of course, Sitecore.
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