Inspired by Olivier Lafleur’s last year review, here is my year 2016 in review as of December 24th.
Followed 2 Courses
- July - uCommerce Masterclass for Sitecore
- December - Sitecore® XP 8 Website Development for .NET Developers eLearning Course
Passed 1 Certification
- Sitecore® XP 8 Website Development for .NET Developers Certification - With a score of 97%
Attended 10 User Groups
- January 26th - OpenCode: OPENCODE XXVIII
- March 29th - OpenCode: OPENCODE XXIX
- April 5th - Tech Drinks Quebec: Relations Publiques
- June 30th - Beer and Learn Quebec: Lambda, le nouveau service cloud d’Amazon
- July 19th - New England Search Technologies (NEST) Group: Greetings From Plato’s Cavemen: Search Shadows from a Sitecore Architect
- September 22th - Communauté Microsoft Azure Québec: Azure Web Apps, une belle opportunité d’utiliser Microsoft Azure
- October 11th - Sitecore User Group Quebec: First Meetup - Discover Sitecore 8.2 and 8.3 new features
- November 10th - Beer and Learn Quebec: Tester du « Legacy Code », mission impossible?
- November 17th - Montreal Sitecore User Group: 1st Meetup : Symposium Recap + Sitecore 8.2 + Coveo
- November 29th - Sitecore User Group UK: London November 2016 User Group
Started 1 User Group
- Sitecore User Group Quebec with the help of Mathieu Benoit.
Presented 4 Talks
- February 17th - Sitecore User Group Sri Lanka: Introduction to Coveo for Sitecore
- September 28th - Beer and Learn Quebec: Introduction to Jekyll and GitHub Pages
- October 11th - Sitecore User Group Quebec: What’s new in Sitecore 8.2
- November 17th - Montreal Sitecore User Group: Coveo for Sitecore 4.0
Participated To 3 Projects
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Sitecore Visitor Identification Module to discover whether the visitor opened the browser developer tools. Information is stored in the visitor profile and can be used for personalization and goals.
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Setup of the website with Jekyll, GitHub, Netlify, and Let’s Encrypt. Modifications to the Jekyll theme. Content structure definition.
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Created and hosting the initial list.
Wrote 10 Blog Posts
- 8 on jflh.ca including this one
- 2 on source.coveo.com
My Top 5 Most Viewed Posts
- 746 page views: Configuring demo.habitat.local
- 332 page views: Running Jekyll on Cloud9
- 192 page views: Adding and Displaying Tags on Jekyll Posts
- 155 page views: Run Sitecore SIM Tool Offline
- 108 page views: Install MongoDB in One Click with the Sitecore SIM Tool
Community Sites Status
GitHub
- 158 contributions (174 total)
Stack Overflow
- 237 reputation points (308 total, top 34% this year)
- 3 answers (5 total)
Sitecore Stack Exchange
- 529 reputation points (63th top user this year)
- 9 answers
- 1 question
Answers.coveo.com
- 3510 reputation points (13,139 total)
- 159 answers (492 total)
- 1 question (1 total)
2016 Plans Status
- Become a Sitecore MVP
- Nominated with 14 references in November 2016. Results will be known in February 2017.
- Became a Sitecore certified developer in December 2016.
2017 Plans
Learn
- ASP.NET MVC
- .NET Core
- .NET Core MVC
- Helix Principles
- Azure Webapps and Sitecore 8.2.1+ Azure
Read
- Professional Sitecore 8 Development by Phil Wicklund and Jason Wilkerson
Present
- A talk at the Sitecore User Group Conference (SUGCON) EU 2017 on May 18-19th in Amsterdam
- A talk at the Sitecore Symposium 2017 on October 16-19th in Las Vegas
- Talks at Sitecore User Groups