Add the Sitecore CLI to the Windows Software Center

20 Nov 2024 🔖 web development windows tutorials 💬 EN

Enterprises with a Sitecore CMS subscription will likely employ developers who need to invoke the Sitecore CLI (a .NET CLI tool) from their own workstations.

Where are Sitecore's paper plates?

07 Nov 2024 🔖 web development 💬 EN

I’m used to Sanity CMS, which inherently treats the structure/schema in which you store content and present it to authors as an immutable consensus that you implement by hand-authoring code and tracking your changes with source code version control.

I know Sitecore CMS predates it a lot. Still, my understanding is that Sitecore is moving away from being a Wordpress-like “headful” CMS that also serves traffic to your web site, and into being a “headless” CMS that only stores your data and makes it easy for authors to edit.

• They started the journey to “headless” backends well over half a decade ago, it seems.
• They’ve finished that journey with the “XM Cloud” edition of Sitecore CMS (it only runs as a “headless” CMS backend).

So … where are all the blog posts helping people think about configuring Sitecore the way you configure Sanity?!

Front of the frontend web development

14 Oct 2024 🔖 beginner web development 💬 EN

The purpose of this series is to come up with phrases that don’t involve the word “framework,” yet explain the purpose of various tools involved in front-end web design and development.

Low-Code Generation Z

02 May 2024 💬 EN

I’ve seen a lot of handwringing about Generation Z not grokking hierarchichal file folders and directories.

At the other end of the spectrum, software engineering professor Dimitris Kolovos wrote:

“a growing proportion of the workforce are digital native and, while they may lack a background in programming, they are well-versed computer and web users and skilled with non-trivial software (e.g. office/mobile applications). Low-code software engineering aspires to leverage this increasingly computer-savvy workforce”

So which is it as the old PC-raised software application implementers retire and youth replace them? A bunch of technologically helpless fresh faces or “well-versed and skilled computer users?”

Entra RBAC Role Assignment FAQ

04 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorials 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Entra RBAC Role Assignments.

Azure RBAC Role Assignment FAQ

03 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorials 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Azure RBAC Role Assignments.

Entra App Registration FAQ

02 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorials 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Entra App Registrations (“app reg”).

Entra/Azure System-Assigned Managed Identity FAQ

01 Feb 2024 🔖 security tutorials 💬 EN

Below are a few frequently asked questions about Microsoft Entra / Azure System-Assigned Managed Identities.

Code Review: My first Powershell function

13 Dec 2023 🔖 powershell tips 💬 EN

I’m lucky to have enthusiastic, experienced PowerShell programmers at work. When I showed off my first attempt at writing a “hello world” function, they gave me an hour of their time to review and correct it.

Trunk-based Git branching

13 Dec 2023 🔖 git 💬 EN

A “trunk-based” strategy for creating and deleting “branches” of a Git repository can drastically reduce conflicts when teams collaborate on editing a shared file.