Sitecore MVP 2020 - Technology
I’m thankful to receive my 1st Sitecore MVP award in the Technology category for 2020.
I’ve been using Sitecore since Sitecore 6 in 2011.
Keep sharing and trying if didn’t make it this year, this is my first year I’ve been fortunate enough to be selected for the MVP award after several years of applying.
Although it’s not enough to just keep on applying, you can’t get the award if you don’t apply, and you might get some feedback what you need to improve upon.
A lot of my activity with Sitecore might not be publicly visible, and probably explains why I’ve not received this award previously.
Digging out dotpeek, finding the root cause of an issue, and possibly supplying a fix on occasion to Sitecore support for review (of course would always prefer to use an official hotfix, but to prove have found the problem & working solution I might get there first).
Or again using dotpeek finding a way to add in support for a feature that isn’t currently supported, and sharing the approach with Sitecore to make it easier to extend in future upgrades, or be integrated into the product in the future.
This might not be visible to the community straight away, but hopefully makes the product better in the long run.
Now with the new single Hotfix model per version of Sitecore, these identified issues fixes are more likely to get into the product quicker, as well as making upgrades easier.
I’ve been trying to share what I’m up to, either blogging, asking/answering questions on Stack Exchange, or presenting when I can.
I’ve also been on a train the trainer course on .net core, Docker, K8s and AKS, and delivered this training.
As well as attended a course on improving my public speaking skills.
All of which has helped me practice my public speaking.
Special mentions to Sitecore User Group UK and Sitecore Discussion Club for letting me present.
And Steve McGill and Martin Miles for running them.
As well as to the Sitecore Support & Product teams for collaborating on tickets, and working on getting the fixes/enhancements into the product.
Plus of course the awesome Sitecore community, whether that’s Twitter, Sitecore Slack, Blogs, Sitecore StackExchange, SCUG Meetups & Sitecore Discussion Club, SUGCON, Symposium etc.
As well as the awesome team I work with, but as this is my personal blog I’ll leave it at that.
Thanks for reading my blog, more to follow!