To continue with the habit I started a few years ago, here is my year 2018 in review.
This year, I am really proud of having achieved all my goals, and even more.
Obtained 2 Awards
- Sitecore Hackathon 2018 winner team in the Sitecore JavaScript Services (JSS) category
- Sitecore MVP 2018 award in the technology category
Attended 3 Conferences
- April 23-24th - Sitecore User Group Conference Europe (SUGCON EU) - Berlin, Germany
- October 8-11th - Sitecore Symposium - Orlando, Florida, USA
- October 11-12th - Sitecore MVP Summit - Orlando, Florida, USA
Attended 3 User Groups
- June 13th - Sitecore User Group Quebec (SUGQuebec): From Forms to Riches + Integration Tests Using Nightwatch
- August 7th - Sitecore User Group Quebec (SUGQuebec): Sitecore and MVC A-to-Z + Sitecore, The Road to the Cloud
- September 6th - Sitecore User Group Quebec (SUGQuebec): Trucs et outils Sitecore : Travaillez plus rapidement
Presented 3 Talks
- April 23rd - Sitecore User Group Conference Europe (SUGCON EU): Continuous Integration and Delivery Using AppVeyor
- September 6th - Sitecore User Group Quebec (SUGQuebec): Trucs et outils Sitecore : Travaillez plus rapidement
- October 10th - Sitecore Symposium: Helix and Sitecore JavaScript Services (JSS)
Participated To 10 Projects
- JSS-App-Templates
- Custom App Templates for Sitecore JavaScript Services (JSS)
- Created the repo and app templates as support material for my Sitecore Symposisum talk
- Sitecore Hackathon
- In a solo team
- Created a blog feature module for Sitecore JavaScript Services (JSS) and a demo
- Won the JSS category award
- Sitecore Front-end Friends
- Co-founded the group together with Corey Smith and Tony Mamedbekov
- Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities
- Sitecore-Deployment-Helpers
- Created pull request #6: Fix installation of packages on Sitecore 8.2u2 and up
- It was merged in master the following week
- Created pull request #6: Fix installation of packages on Sitecore 8.2u2 and up
- Sitecore-Courier
- Created pull request #30: Re-added support for files when using Rainbow
- It was merged in master the following day
- Created pull request #30: Re-added support for files when using Rainbow
- download-sitecoresym-presentations
- Created pull request #1: Change the called function to the correct one
- It was merged in master the same day
- Created pull request #1: Change the called function to the correct one
- Plumber-SC
- Created pull request #21: Update IIS hosting instructions
- It was not merged, but helped to find and fix bad links in readme
- Created pull request #21: Update IIS hosting instructions
- FungiQuébec
- Added FSC Identikit key pages
- Site maintenance
- FSC Identikit
- Created pull request #18: Added support for images from the web in taxon/characters
- It was merged in master the following day
- Created pull request #18: Added support for images from the web in taxon/characters
Wrote 13 Blog Posts
- Best year so far!
My Top 5 Most Viewed Posts
- 8,267 page views: Move Lines Up and Down in Visual Studio Code
- This year, my readers are really making the switch from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code!
- This is more views than all my posts in year 2017!
- 910 page views: Sitecore Symposium 2018 Sessions Recordings and Slides
- 626 page views: Helix and Sitecore JavaScript Services (JSS)
- 552 page views: Adding and Displaying Tags on Jekyll Posts
- 336 page views: Running Jekyll on Cloud9
Community Sites Status
GitHub
- 131 contributions (384 total)
Stack Overflow
- 9 reputation points (337 total, top 82% overall)
- 1 answer (7 total)
Sitecore Stack Exchange
- 478 reputation points (1,301 total, top 22% overall)
- 8 answers (23 total)
- 2 question (4 total)
Answers.coveo.com
- 2,704 reputation points (17,533 total)
- 184 answers (762 total)
2018 Plans Status
I am really proud of having achieved all of my goals this year. For a big part of the year, I woke up half an hour earlier to work on my goals. I am impressed by all the things I can achieve with a small daily involvement.
Learn
- React
- Followed 2 tutorials to learn the basics of version 16
- Read a good portion of the book Learning React by O’Reilly Media
- Sitecore JSS
- Familiarized with the product with Tech Preview 1
- Used Tech Preview 2 during Sitecore Hackathon 2018
- Used Tech Preview 3 during a Coveo hackathon
- Used Tech Preview 4 for my Sitecore Symposium talk
- Used MVP Preview (10.0) for a Coveo for Sitecore integration POC
Present
- A talk at the Sitecore User Group Conference (SUGCON) EU 2018 on April 23-24th in Berlin, Germany
- Submitted 2 talk ideas
- One talk was accepted
- Presented in front of about 75 people
- A talk at the Sitecore Symposium 2018 on October 8-11th in Orlando, Florida, USA
- Submitted 3 talk ideas
- One talk was accepted
- Presented in front of about 250 people
- Talks at the Sitecore User Group Quebec
- Presented once
2019 Plans
Learn
- Latest web development fundamentals
- Flexbox
- CSS Grid
- SASS
- TypeScript
- GraphQL
- Sitecore JSS 11
Present
- A talk at the Sitecore User Group Conference (SUGCON) EU 2019 on April 4-5th in London, UK
- A talk at the Sitecore Symposium 2019
- Talks at the Sitecore User Group Quebec