I spent a good portion of last weekend moving my blog. My hosting plan was up for renewal and, with my plans to rebuild it, I didn’t really want to pay what they were asking for another year. I decided to move my WordPress blog into a local docker container and then use a Static Site Generator plugin and deploy to a free Netlify account while I work on building a replacement with Sitecore. Continue reading
I forgot to mention an issue I ran into when spinning up images for my last post. It seems the mssql-init container can timeout and cause your docker-compose up command to abort. Here’s how I dealt with that. Continue reading
So I got Sitecore running in containers a couple of times now, while following slightly different instructions for the 10.0 and the 10.2 version of the docs. But, contrary to the name of one of the documents I followed, it didn’t really get a development environment set up. Now, I’m looking into what it takes to get set up for actual development. Continue reading
Ok, let’s start over with the latest docs. This time, I’m following the 10.2 version of “Run your first Sitecore instance” as well as “Developer Workstation Deployment With Docker“. Continue reading
Here we go. I’m starting from the very beginning. I have already dabbled in running Sitecore in containers over the past couple years. But this has all been changing very rapidly and I wanted to get the full experience, so I’m following along with the “Run your first Sitecore instance” doc. Continue reading
Hey there! It’s good to see you! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Continue reading
Using a custom model class for your SPE report scripts can clean them up and make it easier to control the action button visibility. Continue reading
If you are still using Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1, you may find this SPE module helpful. It provides a dialog that will allow you to stage (publish) your catalog. Continue reading
This post will show how to extend the SIFLess uninstall scripts for an instance that includes Sitecore Experience Commerce 9. Continue reading
It is a fairly well-known best practice to create your own custom search indexes rather than using and polluting the ones that Sitecore provides out-of-the-box. If you follow this practice in a large solution, you may end up with many small indexes. A question may arise: “how do I get the correct search context (index) for a given feature?” Continue reading