The Topic of Accessibility is Hard, but Implementation isn't. Not sure what we mean by accessibility? Don't think it has anything to do with you? The Web is afflicted with sites that are simply inoperative to people who must rely on assistive technologies...Take a look at this video to understand where... Read more »
Technology
bv02’s Scott Mulligan named Sitecore’s “Most Valuable...
“Scott has demonstrated mastery of our technology and exemplifies the spirit of Sitecore,” says Lars Fløe Nielson, Co-Founder and senior vice president of Sitecore. This statement is exactly why Scott Mulligan, Lead Sitecore Developer at bv02, was recently named a Sitecore "Most Valuable Professional" (MVP).... Read more »
Estimote beacons at the Museum of Nature
Technology ebbs and flows between leading the market and being in-demand. For years we have looked to realize technology's promise of contextual information. We have looked for ways to answer how technology can align in mobile, social and content. Beacon technology will prove to be an important step in the... Read more »
Recap of the First Ottawa Sitecore Meetup
It's the Friday before Christmas and the Sitecore world is ringing with excitement today about the newly released Sitecore 8 platform. But before we get sidetracked by all the new shiny functionality built into Sitecore 8, I wanted to take a moment to recap Ottawa's first Sitecore meetup that took place on November... Read more »
Andrew and Scott take on Sitecore Symposium in Vegas: Part 2
The 2014 North American Sitecore Symposium is now well underway and it has been a great experience so far. The event officially kicked off yesterday with the opening keynote by Michael Seifert (CEO, Sitecore) followed by individual keynotes for each of the product track, business track, and development track. The... Read more »
Bug fix for DatePicker in Sitecore's Web Forms for Marketers
Here’s a simple fix that will improve usability for site administrators, customers and potential employees, for one of the most commonly implemented modules in Sitecore, Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM). It seems that the DatePicker for Web Forms for Marketers 2.4.0 rev. 140117 doesn’t save in a readable date... Read more »
Bug Fix: TDS build not pushing from Visual Studio Project to...
As all you Sitecore coders out there know, the default recommended set up for a Sitecore solution in Visual Studio is as one web project. This can make working with multi-site solutions a challenge and also means that your custom code for the solution gets mixed in with the rest of the Sitecore base... Read more »
Random Hacks of Kindness Ottawa (June 2014)
Last weekend, June 28-29, marked Ottawa’s third instalment of Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) (http://rhok-ottawa.ca/). The first order of business is to answer “So, what is it?”. RHoK is a hackathon for making the world a better place by developing practical, open source technology solutions to respond to... Read more »
Mobile OS versions: New statistics on Android usage
For several years iOS has set the bar pretty high when it came to users installing new OS versions. Within days of a new iOS version being released by Apple, millions upon millions of people will have downloaded and installed it. Partly this is because Apple has been very good at making new versions available to... Read more »
The Future is Now!
Not that long ago we watched movies in disbelief as our favorite action star gathered data from his wrist watch, then had a video conference call from a monitor embedded in the dash of his car. A few years later, this no longer seems that far fetched, in fact, it’s reality and we are now calling this collection... Read more »
Is this the future of alumni giving?
How many times a week are you asked to donate to something? Whether it's someone you know participating in a race, fundraising for a cause like Mustaches for Kids, or an alumni association asking for help with a capital campaign... I'm sure you run into this scenarios as much as I do, where multiple groups are... Read more »