For 2015 I will be focussing a lot of blog posts on Teaching Sitecore. Since there is no freely available version of Sitecore to help developers learn the platform, many new devs are thrown in to the Sitecore world with little or no experience. This is a real problem for Sitecore partners and customers and... Read more »
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bv02 visits the Great White North
It's been a whirlwind week for some of us at bv02 who just got back from Whitehorse in the Yukon! We had the pleasure of meeting with a new client in the Arts and Culture sector to meet and learn from their team and get a tour of the scene in Whitehorse and area. Highlights included a private gallery vault tour, a... Read more »
Andrew and Scott take on Sitecore Symposium in Vegas: Part 1
The 2014 North American Sitecore Symposium officially kicks off today in fabulous Las Vegas and bv02 is well represented at the event. The speaking engagements don’t start until tomorrow so today is all about settling in and will be a great opportunity to meet the Sitecore team, fellow Sitecore... Read more »
bv02's The Brief - Episode 2: Crowdfunding for Universities with...
“It’s all about the power of individual ideas and uniting a crowd behind them. I think academics have this limitless capacity for amazing ideas, innovation, discovery – but what they lack is a crowd of supporters and engaged citizens to fund and promote their work. Crowdfunding makes that a possibility. We... 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 »
IKEA turns Instagram into a Website
As one of the fastest growing social media photo sharing platforms in the world, with over 200 million monthly active users, it was only a matter of time before a brand leveraged Instagram’s capabilities to create a fun - and free - alternative to a website. IKEA recently used the site to launch a web-based catalog... 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 »
bv02's The Brief - Episode 1: CASL with Porter Heffernan
This marks the first video in a new series called “The Brief: The Business of Digital Marketing”, in which I’ll be talking with experts across the business world about trends and hot topics in technology and digital marketing. Today’s subject: Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), which comes into effect... 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 »
Rebuilding the Search Index on Remote Servers with Sitecore 7
I made a rookie mistake with Sitecore 7. I didn't properly define an indexing strategy before launching a new multi-server Sitecore instance. I have spent a lot of time working with Sitecore 7 but have found myself overwhelmed by the myriad of indexing strategies available for our shiny new Sitecore websites.... Read more »