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Generating meaningful sample Sitecore analytics data with JMeter
Note: Although the screenshots I am using are from the Experience Profile interface, which is not publicly available at time of writing, this method will work with older versions of Sitecore as well....
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Sitecore Azure for Beginners – Part 1: What Is Microsoft Azure?
In this series of blog posts, I will be tackling Microsoft Azure as it relates to Sitecore. At the time of writing, I am a complete newcomer not only to Sitecore Azure but Microsoft Azure in general....
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Let’s Talk About Session State
When the Experience Database (xDB) was released, there was suddenly a lot of information floating around about session state. In this blog post, I will defeat this nemesis of mine by covering: The role...
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Tracker.Current is not initialized
I am writing this for the benefit of anyone else who, like me, goes to Google before checking their logs! When I switched shared session state to OutProc (using the MongoDB provider), I got the...
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What’s in a session: What exactly happens during a session, and how does the...
This blog post follows on from Let’s Talk About Session State. Now that we understand the role played by session state in the xDB, let’s take a closer look at what exactly happens during a session –...
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Four agile development practices that benefit the documentation
I work with a team of 30+ developers and QA on a large platform. For the most part, I write the documentation by reverse engineering a feature and acting as its first external consumer. This is a good...
View Article9.0 Update-1: New in xConnect and xDB
Photo by Cristian Escobar on Unsplash Here are some of the key changes made to xConnect and the xDB in the recently released 9.0 Update 1 – including links to documentation. For a full list of changes,...
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Sitecore’s marketing features for developers: What is ‘Engagement Value’?
If you work as a developer in the Sitecore world, you will probably hear the term engagement value at some point. I did a quick Google (and got a 500 error, which made me think the world was coming to...
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SPEAK for Newbies – Part 6: SPEAK Helpers
The main SPEAK .js file contains a lot of very useful helpers that you can use in your own applications and components. To remind you, the PageCode component uses require.js to load in a bunch of...
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Figuring things out in the wild worlds of .NET and Node, and writing it down.More
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