Sitecore 7: Upcoming Virtual Users Group

Join me and the host Michael Shaw on May 15th 9:00 AM Pacific, Noon Eastern, 5:00 PM UK. Here is the link.

And here is the list of the topics I am planning on covering:

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Advanced Database Crawler / Sitecore Search Contrib Update

This is a post about a maintenance update to the SitecoreSearchContrib project, which is hosted on GitHub now.

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Amazon EC2 and Sitecore - great news

Amazon announced yesterday that they are lowering prices for Amazon EC2, and, what’s even more exciting, a new “medium” instance is available now, which fits nicely into what Sitecore needs to run quite comfortably. Here is the quote from the announcement:

“…We are also announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type, m1.medium. This new instance provides customers with 2 EC2 Compute Units (ECUs) of compute power, 3.75 GB of memory, and 410 GB of instance storage, making it ideal for many enterprise applications that require a reasonable amount of CPU and memory, but do not require all the resources of an m1.large instance type. The m1.medium instance type is available in all regions and supports both 32 and 64-bit architectures. To learn more about Amazon EC2 instance types, including pricing for m1.medium instances, please visit the Amazon EC2 detail page.”

An affordable sandbox it seems. Pretty sweet, huh?

Sitecore Analytics Database Manager

Great news! Our brilliant engineers from the Customer Service Department developed a very useful and, I would say, critically important tool that helps Sitecore administrators in maintenance activities on the OMS 1.x database.

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Upcoming Sitecore Users’ Virtual Group

Exciting news! I was invited to present at the upcoming Sitecore Users’ Virtual Group which will be held next week on Wednesday (Oct 19th) at Noon Pacific, 3:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM UK. Thanks guys!
So the topic would be quite random, “Latest cool prototypes from Sitecore US lab”. Since I am not in product development, rather “on-the-field” kind of Sitecorian, don’t expect any of the new MVC, Sitecore 7, but expect the demos of the following components produced for the customer needs I witness during my consulting engagements with partners and customers:
- Updates on the following two hottest modules produced. Both contain some major enhancements based on your feedback (thank you)!

Sitecore.Search extension aka AdvancedDatabaseCrawler
Partial Language Fallback

- Other prototypes and super experimental stuff like ContentSilo, NameValueEx field, WorkflowBundle and more (if we have time)!
If this sounds interesting, see this event page for more details and click here to register. Space is limited.
Hope it will be informative and fun! See you soon.

Sitecore North America Technical Insider Call

Sitecore USA will be conducting a brief 30 minute call for Sitecore Certified Developers tomorrow at 10 AM Pacific. Here is what we will be covering:
- Some quick announcements
- State of the Union on Sitecore recommended version (new stuff)
- Sneak preview of the brand new and completely awesome Data Access Training
- Update to Search Extension Shared Source Project aka AdvancedDatabaseCrawler v2

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Sitecore Developer Network Search just got a bit better

We just pushed an update to the SDN search, which included greatly enhanced search within Sitecore Community Blogs, and integrated SDN Forum. Now you should be able to search against any Sitecore resource from one place!

Among other enhancements, we’ve improved search relevancy by tweaking a few settings and ignoring landing pages.

Hope you see the difference.

Feel free to provide feedback, especially if your own blog is not getting indexed by us.

Enjoy!

Sitecore USA is looking for more brain power

Do you wake up in the morning and pop up Sitecore Rocks before getting your first cup of coffee? Can’t live without Sitecore? Here is your chance to join us in this continuing thrilling journey to success. We are looking for an experienced Solution Engineer.

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Sitecore Users Virtual Group

If you guys have not seen this initiative, check it out: http://www.sitecoreug.org

The Sitecore Users' Virtual Group is dedicated to supporting the Sitecore community wherever they exist across the globe. There are some great speakers lined up for our first sessions and all sessions are free of charge and conducted over the web. Here is the schedule.

The first presentation will take place next Wednesday, May 18, at 9:00 AM Pacific, Noon Eastern, or 5:00 PM UK time. John West, CTO of Sitecore North America, will discuss the state of Sitecore and the CMS marketplace. John has graciously agreed to answer your questions.

If you would like to attend, please register here.

My Dreamcore Presentation

Dreamcore is just around the corner and I am fully immersed in my presentation.
The topic is “Building Successful and Efficient Multilingual Solutions with Sitecore”.

My plan is to spend a few minutes showing the fundamentals of multilingual support in Sitecore and then drill down into the use cases and some real world scenarios I’ve witnessed over a few years.

I believe this format will be suitable for the beginners who are thinking about a multilingual implementation and also for the experienced folks as I have a few secret tricks up my sleeve!

If there anything specific you would expect from my presentation, please keep the comments coming.

By the way, full Dreamcore 2011 agenda can be found here:
http://www.sitecore.net/en/Events/Dreamcore2011/Agenda.aspx

Hope to see you there!

New Year, New Sitecore Blog

I have been thinking about this for a while, and finally decided to create another Sitecore blog on our Community area dedicated to sharing my experiences in the field working closely with implementation partners:

http://www.sitecore.net/AlexShyba

My ambitious plan is too continue sharing anything deeply technical here while the new blog would be a place where technical meets business half way.

Hope you enjoy it!

Sitecore User Group in San Francisco / Bay Area

I would like to announce the formation of the first and only Sitecore User Group in the Bay Area.

My vision is to create a dedicated community for passionate Sitecore developers and end users devoted to learning new things and sharing experience about everything related to Sitecore CMS. Anybody can join. You can be either a beginner or experienced Sitecore developer, or end user.

Since Sitecore USA is headquartered in San Francisco, you have an amazing opportunity to get new information about the product directly from the vendor and get to meet the Sitecore folks!

The user group’s home is here. Join us!