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Sitecore Hackathon 2017 One of the possible categories for the 2017 Sitecore Hackathon was the Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA). With our "No Weekend 4 Us" team we took to this challenge and created a custom component that works with SXA and the xDB (and did other fancy stuff, but that is explained in other blog posts). Different aspects of xDB xDB obviously is huge. And it is often that huge potential that tends to scare off those who attempt to venture into the first steps that lead into harnessing xDB's true potential. For our entry into the SxA part of the Hackathon, we decided to go for some quick integrations that would help us showcase some of the currently missing interactions that are possible. We used the following 3 aspects: Content provided based on previous visits Creation and managing Favorite content Sorting content based of the accumulated pattern cards. Content based on your visists  First step is to load all information of...

Since June 2014, we have been hard put at keeping the Sitecore User Group for Belgium and Luxembourg alive, kicking and interesting (in whatever order). Over the course of that time, we have had some very interesting speakers and sessions. If you have never visited us, I can highly recommend each and every session. You can find general information on the Meetup platform here: https://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Belgium/ What's next?   The next session will be focussing on; SUGCON Recap: http://www.sugcon.eu/ Sitecore Cloud with Azure PaaS Sitecore Experience Accelerator - hands-on We are finalizing the agenda but if you need more information, please follow here for more information on the location, specific agenda details and the various speakers: https://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Belgium/events/238460208/ Previous sessions   With regards to previous sessions and the presentations, we tend to make these available on the platform. ...

Kind reader, perhaps a small introduction might just suit this blogpost perfectly. What exactly is Azure and the cloud as a whole? I know that for most of you readers, the following information is nothing more than a lesson in history and may even very well be within your set of active knowledge. Worst case, you can skip it altogether and jump right into the next paragraph.   So, what is Microsoft Azure? Not so long ago, and here and there the following scenario still stands, a typical website or application was hosted on internally hosted machines per company. Big companies tend to have centralized IT departments and data centers to secure and manage their IT infrastructure through meticulously defined processes and monitoring. Smaller companies need to fend for themselves while making due with the tools and budgets available to provide the best server maintenance as possible. And typically, web servers are not exactly put at the top of the priority list.   In ...