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Part Two: Using Extended View Event Data in a Sitecore Personalize Decision Model

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In my next blog post on Sitecore CDP/Personalize, I look into building upon my recent content on how to capture additional arbitrary information about the pages that my users are viewing, but in this post I will explore how to then use that information in a decision model which we will then use for a Web Experience.

January 24, 2023

Capturing Additional Data in a View Event in Sitecore CDP/Personalize

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In my latest blog post on Sitecore CDP/Personalize, I explore the different approaches to track arbitrary information in CDP, so that we can then use Sitecore Personalize in a later blog post to create a Decision Model and a Unique Web Experience based on the content the user is viewing for my blog.

December 13, 202220 minute read

Introducing Sitecore CDP/Personalize Serializer/CLI Tool

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

I walk the user through a PoC that I introduced to the community at Sitecore Symposium 2022 in Chicago, on a New Developer experience for Sitecore CDP/Personalize, including the journey to create this PoC and what’s next for this project.

October 28, 202220 min read

Sitecore Personalize: How to Recover an Archived/Deleted Experience or Experiment

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In this article I walk the user through the different authentication types for OAuth and working with Sitecore CDP/Personalize. Once I’ve covered authentication, I take the user through the exercise of using the APIs to recover an archive/deleted experience/experiment.

October 04, 202215 min read

How to Change the Node Version for Netlify Builds

Backend Development

In this article we take a look at how to use the package.json to specify a node/npm engine for our local development. We then explore the .nvmrc file and how this applies to a Netlify build to enforcing netlify to build with a specific version.

September 30, 2022

Closing a Session in Sitecore CDP with the Stream API Using Postman

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In my latest video for Discover Sitecore, I am going through a flow with Postman, one topic from that video that I wanted to cover deeper, is how to use the Stream or Real Time API’s in Postman to end/kill a session.

September 01, 2022

Building Your First Node JS CLI

Backend Development

In this article, I take the reader on the journey as I explore how to create a Node-based CLI. I talk a little bit about how to run a CLI using NPM or NPX and then cover the code I used to create one.

August 25, 2022

First Look at Github CoPilot - AI Powered Programming

Developer Experience

First Look into AI Powered Programming. Should we worry about losing our jobs or will this just increase Developer efficiency. This article is my first initial thoughts on Github Copilot with less than 24 hours of usage.

May 27, 2022

Getting the GuestRef in the Browser with Sitecore CDP/Personalize

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In this blog post, I discovered something as I continue to explore the APIs, and thought it might create the same ah hah moment for others as they try to understand the different IDs in the browser vs the Guests List in your CDP/Personalize tenant.

May 17, 2022

Introduction to the Git CLI - Simple Commands

Developer Experience

Exploring the basic commands to getting started with the Git CLI, for those more familiar with GUI interfaces working with Git source control. This constitutes a nice refresher into Git commands for the CLI and terminology explaining the basics of Git and Source Control.

May 12, 2022