I have discussed the Helix [https://helix.sitecore.net/index.html]design patterns before and I really love their modular approach to code architecture however whilst trying to discuss this with some colleagues and working out the cleanest way to work with Helix and a Multi-site Sitecore solution it occurred to me that if you are familiar with the "Enterprisey" Three-tier design [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitier_architecture] architecture principles, well the same principles can be applie…
It's been quite some time since we started our journey using Sitecore 8.2 and Azure PaaS. There has been no small amount of experimentation, failings and most importantly, learnings as we worked towards an automated build and release pipeline using VSTS so I thought I would take the opportunity at long last to share some of my experiences. This was the first time I'd tried using Azure PaaS and to be fair, it was very early days for Sitecore supporting PaaS as well. While using the bleeding edg…
Last month was the start of an exciting new website development project to bring my company's Sitecore website into the current era. I'd been aware of the Sitecore Helix design approach for quite some time and was interested in the idea however this finally afforded me the opportunity to really explore what it was all about while I was shopping around for the right approach to building the new site. Pros of the Helix Design Approach Although there are many design approaches out there in the…
For quite a few months now, my workplace has been looking at moving our website from a fully automated, cloud-based AWS solution over to Azure. Every person I've mentioned this to has had a similar reaction, mostly of disbelief. "AWS is far more mature and robust cloud offering". Comments like this have been made to me numerous times. Hell, I was of the same opinion at first however lets explore some of the reasoning behind this business decision to move to Azure after spending 1.5 years and a c…
It's time for a change So after numerous issues with Wordpress, and some inspiration from a Microsoft Ignite 2017 talk, I've decided to finally get around to setting up my new blog using the Ghost.io platform. Why the change? This is something I've been meaning to do for a very long time. My old Wordpress blog was created during 3rd year University as a Research and Development brain dumping ground which at the time was all focused on 3D modelling and animation as well as Game Development.…