Sitecore 10.3 failed installation

Have you been trying to install Sitecore 10.3 (or possibly another version) using the Sitecore Install Assistant (SIA) or Sitecore Install Framework (SIF)? Are you pulling your hair due to an error message? Well then, let's hope that either of the below issues are of use to you! Cryptic message… 

Optimizely Commerce database querying 101

Howdy y'all! When working in projects based on Optimizely (formerly Episerver) Commerce there is often a need to look deep within the database structure to gather information or troubleshoot issues. Having worked with this structure for the past ten years I feel that I could dump some of the "usual… 

Optimizely batch publish gotcha

Hiya! Today's post is about a TIL and a little gotcha I ran into while migrating Commerce properties. Never seen this exact issue before in my 10 years working with Episerver/Optimizely, so as a friendly coder, I leave this post for posterity and search engines. The issue rose as I renamed, made… 

Updated generator

Now the old Hugo site is replaced by Gatsby and a combination of markdown and React on TypeScript. I don't fancy myself a designer but at the same time I didn't want to take an off the shelf theme, so the result is a reflection of that. 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, just wanted to take this post to give a little… 

Dump Connector States

Howdy! Wondered what's lurking in your connector's state in inRiver PMC? If not, now's the time! Using the .NET API we can write a simple console application to query and display it. Unfortunately, retrieving all connectors using UtilityService is not available, that support was dropped for iPMC…