After the first hundred lines or so of code are working -- stop! Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Aggressively refactor. Get it right before you start rapidly adding thousands of lines. You'll be glad you did. Get the seed right, then let the crystal grow.

Sitecore Experience Edge has a new feature! Please welcome "Webhook execution modes". Docs for Sitecore XM: doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/develope… Docs for Sitecore Content Hub: docs.stylelabs.com/contenthub/4.1…

Test Driven Development thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2022/02/09/tes…

If the amazing sessions weren't enough to get you to #SUGCON, come see the newest addition to the agenda "XM Cloud - Build and Deploy in Less Than 5 Minutes". Tickets still available! #SITECORE europe.sugcon.events

XmCloud, Yes, XmCloud at #sugcon 🇺🇦 Andy Cohen 🇺🇦 and I have both a session about Sitecore #XmCloud🦸‍♂️🕹️🔥 #sitecore #edge #dx #api

Even now as I write blog posts I can still here John West in my head correcting my passive voice.

“There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery.” - Mathias Verraes

Developers, you are not victims. Do not put yourself in that position by asking for permission to do what you _know_ needs to be done.

Not deploying on Friday (or not ending a Sprint on Friday) is a huge red flag for me. It tells me that your code is such poor quality (and so poorly tested) that you're afraid of something going wrong over the weekend. 1/2

Perhaps the best definition of clean code was given by Michael Feathers: “Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.”

I just blogged on how to use the Experience Edge GraphQL API codeflood.net/blog/2022/07/2…

Getting ready for #sugcon ANZ

Sacrifice to the Demo Gods. #sugcon

#sugcon ANZ is in full swing with Ophelia55

Continuing #sugcon with 🇺🇦 Andy Cohen 🇺🇦 and XM Cloud

Learning about content modelling with Kelly Felmingham #sugcon

Learning how people are using the stuff I've built with Jeffrey Rondeau #sugcon

Michael West In this age of the composable dxp it is important to abstract company IP out of the monolith as much as possible to improve maintainability and dev experience.

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