Written things
Converting a TDS project to Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS)
New Beginnings | A Thora Silentblade tale
Escape from Promethea
Deploy Unicorn serialization to XM Cloud using IAR – A proof of concept
Sitecore XM Cloud and Vercel Deployment Protection
Level up! Driving Collaboration in your Team
More like Mega-DEAD, am I right?
Level Up! Show you know how to drive execution of a project
Symphony of destruction – A Tale from the Borderlands
Showdown at sundown – A Tale from the Borderlands
Level up! 5 tips for practicing mentoring and coaching skills
A Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle – A Tale from the Borderlands
Welcome to Promethea – A Tale from the Borderlands
A bullet doesn’t feel the heart it breaks – A Tale from the Borderlands
Bunkers & Badasses: The Siren class
Bunkers & Badasses: The Psycho class
Bunkers & Badasses: The Mechromancer class
Bunkers & Badasses: The Hunter class
Bunkers & Badasses: The Gunzerker class
Bunkers & Badasses: The Commando class
Bunkers & Badasses: The Berserker class
Bunkers & Badasses: The Assassin class
Good news, bad news – A Tale from the Borderlands
Terror of the Skies – A Tale from the Borderlands
Bunkers & Badasses – MAYHEM!
You have something on your face – A Tale from the Borderlands
First thoughts on using Buffer for social media
Bunkers & Badasses – Badass Tokens
Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – Classic XP with Simple Personalization
And the award goes to… – A Tale from the Borderlands
An elevator not to be trusted. – A Tale from the Borderlands
Remove your AddThis component by May 31, 2023
What kind of name is St-Cyr?
Bunkers & Badasses – Badass Moves
Riding the clouds! – A Tale from the Borderlands
Bunkers & Badasses – What exactly is it?
SUGCON Europe 2023 – Highlights shared by the community
Time for some new threads – A Tale from the Borderlands
Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XP Marketing Automation
Lava shark? – A Tale from the Borderlands
Being ready as a parent for the tough questions
Bunkers & Badasses: The Elementalist archetype
Fire in the hole! A Tale from the Borderlands
First 7 thoughts on editing videos with Clipchamp
Brymstone is pretty terrible – A Tale from the Borderlands
My 2022 Unwrapped!
Leaving Lynchwood - A Tale from the Borderlands
How do you convince developers to stick around for the long run?
Who should I put on my project team? Every now and then, somebody has asked me “what should my team look like”? Is there a formula for how you can structure a technical team to be ready for a Sitec...
Azure Functions – Access has been blocked by CORS policy I've been playing around with Azure Functions to learn the basics and hit the CORS policy issue very early on in this flow. I decided to cap...
What's new on the Developer Portal - July 2022 The team, led by Mark van Aalst, has been working hard these past few months getting cool stuff on the Sitecore Developer Portal, so I wrote up a quic...
Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XP Global Brand scenario In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) “Global B...
Breaking down the data - Sitecore community around the world! I was doing some brief digging into geographic distribution and thought I'd share with the community about where we find our community ...
Becoming a Leader – Letting it go In this series I’ll be writing about some of the challenges of transitioning to being a leader within the team you are in. In this article, I’ll cover delegation a...
Sitecore Architect's Guide to SaaS Migration - XM Jamstack scenario In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore XM “Jamstack” solution over to XM Clou...
11 tips for remembering that thing you were supposed to do I’ve always had memory recall issues. I’ve spent most of my life/career using little ‘tricks’ to cope. For example, I leave a light on in ...
Mixed emotions: Saying goodbye to a team member I was recently thinking about managing teams, and the feelings you have when you are helping somebody grow out of your own group. Decided to capture ...
Using Camtasia Pixelate options to make your video feel like a retro video game Last week I put out my latest #VoiceTheDocs video which featured a bit of a 'retro game' feel. I wrote a little bit a...
Sitecore Stack Exchange Beta stage is over! Today is an exciting day for the community as the Sitecore Stack Exchange site has graduated from the Stack Exchange Beta program and become a fully publ...
Tech Salaries: All that goes up, must come down @LaurieOnTech recently tweeted about the inevitable crash of tech salaries, urging folks to take advantage while they can but plan that this will not...
4 speaker tips to focus on your camera while recording a video I’m not sure about everybody else, but since we’ve switched to doing a lot of virtual events I have really noticed how easily distract...
Sitecore XP 10.2 is now available for download! The latest version of Sitecore Experience Platform is now out and ready for you to download. During Sitecore Symposium, there were a few announcement...
Announcing the Sitecore Developer Portal As part of our continuous effort to provide you with the best possible service, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new Sitecore Developer Portal, ...
Building a timeline with Polywork I wasn’t sure what to make of Polywork at first, or how to best use it, but I decided that for me I wanted to use it as a way to track a timeline of all the things...
How do I get a notification when my Vercel deployment fails? My team was working on a project together and getting lots of ‘bot’ emails from our GitHub integration to Vercel. At least, we were gett...
I'm fine. How are you? This was a short one, originally as a Twitter thread, about how we try to avoid talking about how not fine we all are. Read on jasonstcyr.com...
Sitecore Symposium 2019 – So you think you can DevOps? I am really proud of the sessions that Rob Earlam and I selected for the track this year, I think we have a little bit of something for everyb...
Building Trust - Have you been kind today? Bringing kindness to marketing and developer relations sounds like something that couldn’t possibly work in a hyper-competitive business world, where we v...
Sitecore xConnect – Cleaning up inactive xDB Contacts Starting with the Sitecore 9.2 release, the xConnect API added new API functions to delete information from the xDB. This allows you to make su...
Should we host Sitecore on IaaS or PaaS? (Jan 2020) This started as a question on the community forums, and my answer got so long I decided to capture it as a blog as well. There are a lot of ways ...
DevRel metrics – Which video in a series is the best performer? When working with a technical audience, we create a lot of content in a variety of ways: documentation, blogs, presentations, and vid...
How do the SameSite cookie changes affect Sitecore installations? Recently, Chrome released the update that contains SameSite cookie changes to better protect against CSRF attacks. Over the course ...
So you work from home now… With the current pandemic a lot of people are now working from home full-time and we all need to adjust to a new way of balancing work and life. Not only that, we are not...
DevRel metrics – Counting things is terrible. Do it! Upon seeing some activity numbers from a recent quarter, a leader I respect told me “I know everybody is busy.” They wanted to know what the imp...
Are Docker and Kubernetes the right fit for my team? This article for sitecore.com was an introduction piece, aimed at IT leadership, on Docker and Kubernetes and the common challenges faced by org...
Should I #DockerAllTheThings? When you start looking into containers and their benefits you may come to the conclusion that “this would not work here“. Maybe that’s right. Are you sure? Read on jas...
Sitecore 10 highlights With the release of Sitecore 10 there are enhancements and innovations that help create efficiencies for both Marketing and IT teams – providing tools that help teams launch ...
Sitecore 10 benefits for Developers, DevOps and IT In this article, I examined into the changes and benefits introduced in Sitecore Experience Platform version 10 for the technical teams of develop...
4 Baby Steps to getting started with metrics I find getting started on things is one of the hardest things to do. When I started into looking at metrics, there were a lot of great examples of end r...
Baby Steps to Metrics – Starting your content analytics In this article, I looked at how you can start setting up some very simple content analytics to start looking for trends. Read on jasonstcyr.com
Sitecore software downloads are faster and ungated! It was a big day over at Sitecore when we finally got downloads onto CDNs and also removed the requirement to login to download. I wrote a quick ...
St-Cyr 2020: The Hindsight Review As the new year begins, I took a look back at what I managed to pull off in 2020. This was my first full calendar year managing the Technical Evangelism team at Si...
Saying goodbye to an old friend It was February 29th, 2020. I received a call from an old bandmate, who now lived in Edmonton. He used to be the lead singer in a band I had formed with friends, ove...
How to add your PowerPoint presentation to your camera with OBS Have you ever wanted an “over the shoulder” feel to your video presentation? Like a broadcast news style, right in your web camera? Y...