Yes, it’s been 5 years. I still remember the day when I first looked at Sitecore in our previous office. It was for a prospect that wanted a CMS. During that time, the CMS market was dominated by Interwoven, Stellent, MS CMS, Documentum, Sharepoint and Vignette. None of those fit my criteria:
- .NET-based
- Less than $20k
- Open-architecture
- Strict separation of content from presentation
- Visual Studio-friendly
So, I started looking deeper in the market and found Sitecore. At that time, Sitecore USA just opened its doors in California. We didn’t get the prospect but I saw such potential in the technology that I decided to go for training and become a partner. Needless to say, we became one and I couldn’t be happier with my decision. Here is our 5-yr timeline with respect to Sitecore:
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| Year Two (2006) |
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| Year Three (2007) |
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| Year Four (2008) |
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| Year Five (2009) |
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It’s already the 2nd quarter of 2010 and yes we’ve already done some special things this year such as hosting Sitecore training, more OMS certifications, additional Foundry implementations, and recognized as one of the Outstanding CMS Projects. After attending Dreamcore, we have a renewed excitement towards what Sitecore is doing. I’d like to be able to update this blog post and let you know what we’ve done again. With the upcoming release Sitecore and OMS, Intranet Portal, and Foundry, we’re sure to make more history.
That is one impressive track record. I remember when Roundedcube first signed up.
ReplyDeleteI have just returned from the Sitecore USA Dreamcore event. It has been a true pleasure to see and talk to committed and visionary partners.
There is no doubt that it is such dedication that drives Roundedcube as a successful interactive agency. I will be looking forward to see what Roundedcube will achieve this year.
How times have changed in just 5 years... that's a good summary of all of more interesting projects. I think it was '07 and '08 when we did our first Telligent Community Server integration too before there was a connector. Good times! :)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to get our hands on the new Sitecore products...only if we have beta versions available. Anyway, thanks for thoughts. Have a great time at Dreamcore Europe as well.
ReplyDeleteDo you guys have any recommendation for doing Unit / integration Test with SiteCore aPI?
ReplyDeleteI find it very hard to unit test things as we have integration from our application with SiteCore API, making publishing events, savings, etc.
Can you give a quick example? It's hard to do it because there are many ways that Sitecore does things. With events (or messages), it intends to go through the pipeline, and does another call into the system. And tha's hard to unit test because it ma be on a different thread. In any case, I'd recommend a different approach. You shouldn't need to worry abou the internals of Sitecore (i.e. on how it executes its API), but instead use checks in your unit tests by querying additional API such as if you saved an item, the you shold expect the item to exist by calling GetItem or something like that. Does that help?
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