Derek Dysart

Core Sampler

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.

Author

Derek Dysart

Category

Education

Podcast website

coresampler.fm

Latest episode

Jan 29, 2024

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Episodes

Episode 28: Sitecore Cognitive Services with Mark Stiles 25.10.2017

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.

Episode 27: Sitecore from Down Under with Sean Holmesby 04.10.2017

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.

Episode 26: Coveo and SUGCON impression with Simon Langevin 03.08.2017

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.

Episode 25: Amanda Shiga 26.07.2017

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.

Episode 24: Sitecore and NET Core with Stephen Pope 19.07.2017

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.

Episode 23: Una Verhoeven 21.06.2017

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.

Episode 22: Looking at the cloud(s) With George Chang 10.05.2017

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.

Episode 21: Testing Sitecore with Dan Solovay 29.03.2017

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.

Episode 20: Unraveling Helix with Sumith Damodaran 15.03.2017

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.

Episode 19: Fight for the Users 21.02.2017

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.

Episode 18: Catching up with Mike Reynolds 08.02.2017

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.

Episode 17: Sitecore Performance discussion with Nat Mann 25.01.2017

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.

Episode 16: Kamruz Jaman 11.01.2017

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.).

Episode 15: The Coresampler Holiday Spectacular 21.12.2016

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.

Episode 14: Professional Sitecore 8 Development 14.12.2016

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.

Episode 13: Discussing Fortis and CI/CD with Jason Bert 30.11.2016

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.

Episode 12: Getting Personal with Rick Bauer 23.11.2016

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.

Episode 11: Akshay Sura Wants to Be Your Friend 09.11.2016

We talk with Akshay Sura about his various efforts to bring the Sitecore Community together.

Episode 10: The Many Projects of Kam Figy 02.11.2016

His contibution to the Sitecore community is undeniable, in this episdoe we dive into some of Kam Figy's many open source tools.

Episode 9: Sitecore Stack Exchange and Mark Cassidy 26.10.2016

The Sitecore community is on a roll lately. Following meteoric rise of the Sitecore Slack Team , 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...

Episode 8: Through the looking glass with Mike Edwards 19.10.2016

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.

Episode 7: Ignition Framework with Jon Upchurch 12.10.2016

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 .

Episode 6: Documentation with Sitecore's Martina Welander 05.10.2016

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.

Episode 5: SPE with Michael West 28.09.2016

We talk with Michael West about getting started with Sitecore Powershell Extensions Code Editor Sitecore Module Sitecore Powershell Extensions Follow Michael on Twitter – @MichaelWest101

Episode 4: Sitecore Fellow Alex Shyba 21.09.2016

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...

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