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2021-03-30 06:03:37 How to prevent full drainage of your disk space running your Sitecore Docker instances, entirely blocking your development process?

Your Docker containers may run aground when running on a lower space drives. This is not a Sitecore issue, it that's a docker issue.

Let's learn the tactics one may use for coping this issue: https://tinyurl.com/2ff56w5s Open / Comment

2021-03-28 23:11:32 Most of you who're using Helix Publishing Pipeline (which is probably the best deployment tool for Helix) benefit from its ability of excluding OOB Sitecore libraries, making your deployments both faster and safer.

The list of those shipped DLLs is usually available for each release of Sitecore (under Release information). For example, here's the one for 10.1: https://tinyurl.com/4cj8av39

But what to do in case of known and popular modules? When it comes to SXA, you may refer to GitHub having all of them back to version 1.6: https://tinyurl.com/yj49zt5p

When it comes to other (not mandatory) well-known modules, you may generate such lists on your own, as described here: https://tinyurl.com/durmbcuk

If you'd like to learn more about Helix Publishing Pipeline, please refer here: https://tinyurl.com/cyuzw8ms

P.S.- (added by Nick Wesselman): you can use these NuGet packages with HPP too, more convenient than CSVs : https://tinyurl.com/pjdn29yp Open / Comment

2021-03-27 18:18:38 For those hesitating around the above statement, would recommend watching this bulletproof persuasive video about even further step ahead with headless - Next.JS implementation coming with JSS 16:

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2021-03-26 03:30:47 The biggest idea of 2021: "Sitecore is moving from developers building DLLs to developers producing APIs" Open / Comment

2021-03-23 23:41:15 Sitecore lifehack:

Sometimes you may need getting raw SQL-level access into your Sitecore databases, but you may not get relevant tools (SSMS) or even database access. No worries, if you've got SPE - you can still do all that you want, and this is how:

# use @"_query_"@ for multiline synthax
$sql = "SELECT GETDATE() AS TimeOfQuery"
Import-Function Invoke-SqlCommand
$db = Get-Database -Name "master"
$conn = [Sitecore.Configuration.Settings]::GetConnectionString($db.Name)
Invoke-SqlCommand -Connection $conn -Query $sql

But what for? There might be plenty of valid reasons to do so. Here's just on example of: https://tinyurl.com/2w72nvv5 Open / Comment

2021-03-18 18:42:03 Content Hub - ?
Experience Edge - ?
SaaS - ?

WTF-? FAQ!

(..for those who got lost in recent updates from Sitecore, see the attached doc for some clarity) Open / Comment

2021-03-18 03:36:18 Did you know Sitecore has new shiny Knowledge Base portal?

Here's it: https://support.sitecore.com/kb Open / Comment

2021-03-18 03:19:03 Content Hub 4.0 and Experience Edge sandboxes are now available at https://siteco.re/ch-sandbox Open / Comment