Core Sampler: Recent Episodes
Derek Dysart
Core Sampler is a podcast that drills into the Sitecore Community to highlight the amazing work folks are doing on the Sitecore platform. Our goal is to bring you information you can use to leverage the investment you’ve made in Sitecore. Whether you are a developer writing custom plugins destined for the marketplace, or a marketer contimplating a new campaign, we aim to cover broad areas of the platform.
In this episode, we sit down with Mark Cassidy and discuss Sitecore Stack Exchange graduating from Beta.
Closing 2020 with couple of outtakes from the Get to know an MVP series and some thoughts on the community and being perfect...
Derek and Tamas are back with special guest Steve Tzikakis, the CEO of Sitecore. Get to know the new CEO of Sitecore as we learn about his background and what it's like taking a new job in the middle of a global pandemic.
Derek is back to chat with George Chang about the state of containerization with Sitecore, and what is shaping to be the future of Sitecore Deployments. The introduction of Sitecore's own container repository with Sitecore 10 opens up new deployment possibilities.
Listen in with Tamas as we get to know long time friend (and first ever guest) of CoreSampler and Sitecore MVP, Mike Reynolds.
Get to know, Klaus Petersen along with Tamas in this installment of Get to Know an MVP.
In the start of a new series, we start looking at the history of deploying websites to production and what the future of deploying Sitecore looks like.
In this episode of Coresampler, we sit down with Dennis Augustine from Konabos Consulting (https://www.konabos.com/)and talk about his Youth Reboot program to help under served youth from his home of Dominica.
Tamas Varga continues his "Get to Know an MVP" series. In this episode, Tamas sits down with Mark Stiles
We're handing the reigns over to Tamas Varga for a new series! Get to know an MVP. In this first episode, the tables are turned and Tamas interviews Derek Dysart
We sit down with the undisputed record holder for appearing in Sitecore memes, Jeremy Davis. Chances are, if you've installed Solr for your Sitecore environment, you've probably used his Powershell scripts. We chat about all the nomenclature behind Solr and demystify it for the Sitecore developer.
In this episode we sit down with Jesper Ravnsgaard of Copenhagen Mist and discuss the history of running Sitecore on Azure PaaS and how that has changed over the years and the challenges organization face.
We finally sit down with Sitecore MVP and EPAM Senior Solutions Architect, Joe Bissol and talk about DevOps and how it doesn't just mean implementing some tools.
Did you know we are not the only SItecore focused podcast? We sit down with Ishraq Al Fataftah, one of the hosts of Sitecore Arabia, an Arabic language podcast that also seeks to highlight this awesome Sitecore community.
Join us in this solo episode with Derek Dysart as he recap some of the key announcements and sessions at Sitecore Symposuim 2019 in Orlando. I mention Platon in the show - here is a shot of his presentation I got: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EInvz9jWsAAbB57?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
We talk with Sumith Damodaren and Ovais Akhter from Sitecore and discuss the eXperience Platform portion of Sitecore and what new services are available in v9.2 for Machine Learning (codenamed Cortex).
In the final episode recorded at Symposium 2018, we sit down with Adam Najmanowicz and Mark van Aalst to learn about what SxA is and how it can help your project.
We welcome back Martina Welander to the podcast to talk about Sitecore's latest documentation efforts, including the new documentation site as well as Sitecore Cortex.
We're back from a hiatus with a conversation with Mr. ExM himself, Pete Navarra. We cover a bit of the history of Email and Sitecore, as well as dive into the things that go one behind the scenes when you send an email.
We talk about Sitecore's Commerce offering with Solution Architect and Sitecore Commerce MVP, Kelly Brennan. Learn who is a good fit for Sitecore Commerce and some of the issues you might face with it.
We (finally) sit down with one of the masterminds behind much of Sitecore XP platform. Hear some of the history of how it came to be and what Todd is up to these days.
We invite everyone's friend and co-founder of Konabos Consulting, Akshay Sura, back to come up with our top ten ways to get the most out of Symposium. Even if you're not attending this year, there is still some good tips on how you can get the most out of the conference.
After mentioning his blog series on handling page not found, we sit down with fellow Wisconsinite and Sitecore MVP John Rappel to talk about addressing other inefficiencies. We cover his approach to DevOps, handling database changes in a CI/CD environment, and the best approach when building out tooling for Sitecore development.
Sitecore is the greatest thing in the world, until it isn't. We cover some of the high level steps to go through when Sitecore isn't working like you think it should be.
In the final interview from the EU SUGCON 2018, we talk with Rob Habraken about what Sitecore implementors need to consider with GDPR
Live from SUGCON 18, We chat with Mike Reynolds and Kamruz Jaman about the new forms in Sitecore 9.
At SUGCON 2018, we sit down and chat with Thomas Eldblom. Thomas was instrumental with the introduction of the Helix architecture pattern and was the Program Manager of the Sitecore Installation Framework.
You're all set. The testing is done, the late night have been put in and you're on that final launch trajectory, then bam no one thought about that! Derek covers some of the commonly overlooked aspects of a Sitecore implementation. The four main areas covered are: Redirects Error pages Site Search Content Editors (can we please think about the content editors?!)
After finishing out an incredibly busy 2017, we're back from a temporary hiatus and talk to one of SUGCON Europe's organizers, Robbert Hock. Technical note: due to some recording issues, our side of this interview was recorded off of our laptop microphone, so the audio quality is a little lower than we'd normally have. There is still good information to share and did our best to clean up the subpar audio.
It's that time of year again where nominations for the Sitecore MVP program are open. We sit down with Tamas Varga from Sitecore's Technical Marketing team to talk about the history of the MVP program, what it is and what it isn't. Finally we detail out what Sitecore is looking for when they consider people for the MVP Program.
Hot on the heels of the launch of their tech preview, we sit down with Team X with Alex Shyba and Adam Weber, along with Nick Wesselman to talk about JavaScript Services for Sitecore, what it is and how to get started.
Recorded live at Sitecore Symposium 2017 we chat with Rob Reilley, better known as Sitecore Runner, about Sitecore's Data Exchange Framework
Recorded at Sitecore Symposium 2017 in Las Vegas, we talk with Mark Stiles and his open source project to integrate Microsoft's Cognitive Services into Sitecore. We also chat about producing media for the Sitecore Community.
We (finally) get with Australian to New York Transplant Sean Holmesby to about Helix, Sitecore at massive scale, and when Hedgehogs tool offerings do and do not make sense.
In the final of our interviews from SUGCON EU, we talk to Simon Langevin from Coveo to find out about Coveo for Sitecore and his favorite sessions.
Continuing with our interviews from SUGCON EU, we sit down with Amanda Shiga, VP of Marketing Science with Valtech. We cover what is new in marketing with Sitecore, including machine learning.
Continuing our series of interviews from SUGCON EU, we talk with Stephen Pope from Sitecore about what it's like using .NET Core in the real world. We also dig a bit into the Sitecore publishing service that his team wrote.
The first of a series of interviews recorded at SUGCON EU 2017, we sit down with Hedgehog's Una Verhoeven and talk about the Sitecore community.
We sit down with Sitecore Cloud MVP, George Chang, to discuss running Sitecore in the cloud. We cover how to get started and reason why you would and would not want to use Azure for your Sitecore environment.
In this episode, we sit down with Sitecore MVP, Dan Solovay and learn why and how to use test driven development with Sitecore, as well as learn why French Literature is the key to a solid career in technology.
In this episode, we sit down with Sumith Damodaran from Sitecore UK's Technical Services team. We learn about his role as he helps Sitecore customers with the platform and to talk about the Helix recommendations. Sumith is in the process of delivering Helix training throughout the region.
Like the program TRON from the eponymous Disney film from 1982, you need to fight for the users of your Sitecore instance. Derek covers some areas to consider when implementing Sitecore to make the life of your content editors easier.
We talk again with Sitecore Junkie, Mike Reynolds and learn about the vibrant tech scene in Sydney, Australia and talk about what's new in Sitecore.
We talk with Nathanael (Nat) Mann to talk about some common gotchas when dealing with Sitecore Performance issues. From properly using caches, being careful with Sitecore search, and view vs controller renderings.
We sit down with Sitecore MVP Kamruz Jaman to talk about some of things that bit us in the past (so they don't bite you.).
Still shopping for that perfect gift for your Sitecore friends and family? We've got you covered. Hear what should be on your holiday wish list this year. We hear from folks in the Sitecore community on what tools and resources you should put on your list. We also hear what we are all thankful for as 2016 comes to a close.
We chat via phone with the authors of the new Sitecore book "Profession Sitecore 8 Development", Phil Wickland and Jason Wilkerson from RBA Consulting. We discuss who the book is for and what information it covers.
Rounding out some of the more common Sitecore frameworks, we chat with Jason Bert about Fortis Collection, a mapping framework for working with Sitecore Items in a strongly typed way. We then dive into the world of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) and some of the challenges implementing this process with Sitecore and why it is worth the investment of time.
A lot of marketers who implement their site with Sitecore struggle with "what now" as they look to leverage the more advanced marketing features of Sitecore. We talk with Perficient's Rick Bauer on how to get started. We cover everyone's favorite - Personalization, but also look at some of the first step you need to take when using Sitecore's marketing tools.
We talk with Akshay Sura about his various efforts to bring the Sitecore Community together.
His contibution to the Sitecore community is undeniable, in this episdoe we dive into some of Kam Figy's many open source tools.
The Sitecore community is on a roll lately. Following meteoric rise of the Sitecore Slack Team (https://sitecorechat.slack.com), the sights were set on breaking free of the "Programming Questions Only" limitations of Stack Overflow by launching a Sitecore focused StackExchange site. In this episode we sit down with Mark Cassidy, who submitted the original proposal to StackExchange and was one of the many members of the Sitecore community to get the site approved and ultimately into public Beta.
Once you get started working on Sitecore, it is not long before someone mentions using Glass Mapper. This week, we sit down with its creator, Mike Edwards and talk about the origins of Glass Mapper, some pitfalls, along with whether you should be generating or hand rolling your models.
Sitecore developers face with a brand new implementation often find themselves doing the same things over and over when starting a project. Ignition is an open source developer accelerator designed to help launch your Sitecore projects. In this episdoe, we talk with the originator of the framework, Jon Upchurch (https://twitter.com/sitecorejon).
In this episode, we sit down with Martina Welander from Sitecore and talk about Sitecore's ever improving documentation, data sources, and her quest make make things easier to understand for developers.
We talk with Michael West about getting started with Sitecore Powershell Extensions Code Editor Sitecore Module Sitecore Powershell Extensions Follow Michael on Twitter – @MichaelWest101
In this episode, we sit down with Sitecore Fellow, Alex Shyba, to talk about his career arc with Sitecore and his team’s latest addition to the product, Path Analyzer. Path Analyzer is an indispensible tool...
In this Episode we talk to Nick Wesselman about his path to Sitecore and later Active Commerce. We also cover getting started on the platform. Active Commerce (http://activecommerce.com) Techphoria414 (http://www.techphoria414.com/Blog) Follow Nick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/techphoria414) Inversion of Control (http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) by Martin Fowler Dependency Injection in .NET (http://amzn.to/2cjC7zd) by Mark Seemann Glass Mapper (http://glass.lu)
In this episode we talk with Mike Reynolds, better known as "Sitecore Junkie" Follow Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mike_i_reynolds) Mike's Blog (https://sitecorejunkie.com/)
Welcome to Core Sampler. In this introductory episode, learn the goals for this podcast and about the host. Follow Core Sampler on Twitter - @CoreSampler (http://twitter.com/coresampler) Follow Derek on Twitter - @ddysart (http://twitter.com) Derek's (very sporatically updated) Blog (http://derekdysart.com)