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2025
Don't Just Wrap It: A Strategist's Guide to Architecting APIs for the AI Revolution
Autonomous AI agents are set to become the primary consumers of your APIs. Legacy REST APIs, built for human developers, create a choke point for...
From Hexo to Jekyll: How I Modernized My Tech Blog with AI
I’ve decided it’s time to bring my website back to life. My goal is to create a space to discuss the latest innovations in technology,...
2020
Publish a ASP.NET Core Web App to Azure using Github Actions
I’ve been working a lot with Azure DevOps to build and deploy many different types of applications to Azure Cloud, On-premise servers and handheld devices....
2018
Sitecore Symposium 2018: When Sitecore Squadrons feel the need for speed!
At this year’s Sitecore Symposium 2018 in Florida, I shared the story of how a Sitecore team flew higher than ever before to deliver a...
Accelerate your Sitecore release pipeline by consolidating environments used for testing and verification
Today, all agile teams are trying to deliver their features into production faster to keep up with rapidly changing customer and business demands.
Convert Hyper-V generation 2 vhdx disk to generation 1 vhd disk
If you ever find you need to downgrade a Windows hyper-v machine from generation 2 .vhdx to a generation .vhd, this unfortunately doesn’t work by...
2017
Sitecore content and components missing after layout change
I came across this issue recently after some changes were made to Sitecore layouts and placeholder names. A change was made to switch a template...
Reset Sitecore admin password and account
I recently managed to lock out my Sitecore local admin account when using the Sitecore PowerShell module. It did this without warning when the elevated...
Sitecore SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE missing
This is an uncommon issue and one that is easy to overlook if you’ve recently deployed Sitecore into production.
Moving my blog from Jekyll to Hexo
For some time I have been meaning to begin blogging about my Sitecore and development experiences to share with the community.
2016
Differences between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
Over the last few years working as an SA i’ve helped to architect solutions that use more and more cloud services and very often see...
Sitecore scheduled tasks not running
Today i’ve been trying to understand why I couldn’t configure a scheduled task to run a Sitecore Powershell script. I found many useful articles which...
No more wrappers with Sitecore fake db
Just reviewed and started using this module after being frustrated with abstractions and getting buried in wrappers. No matter how good you are at managing...
Starting my Sitecore blog
Hello Sitecore world!!!