2017 Year Review

To continue with the habit I started last year, here is my year 2017 in review.

Passed 1 Certification

Sitecore Certified Platform Associate Developer (Sitecore 9) - With a score of 88%

May 18-19 - Sitecore User Group Conference Europe (SUGCON EU) - Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 16-19 - Sitecore Symposium - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
October 19-20 - Sitecore MVP Summit - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

January 18th - DevDrinks Québec: 003 - Les Web Apps
September 20th - Study Of Enterprise Agility Meetup (SEAM) - London: SEAM #9 - How anyone can build a CI/CD pipeline
October 2nd - Beer & Learn Québec: Atelier DevOps, Lego et chocolats
October 10th - Sitecore User Group Quebec: Third Meetup - Sitecore 8.2’s Dependency Injection Framework

January 27th - Sitecore Partners Inside Track Roadshow - Atlanta: What is Coveo for Sitecore
October 10th - Sitecore User Group Quebec - Quebec City: Continuous Integration Using AppVeyor

Sitecore Instance Manager
- Created pull request #154: Import MongoDB databases with unique names and update the connection strings accordingly
  - It was merged in the QA release and in the 1.5.0.179 official release on December 19th
Sitecore Hackathon
- In a team with Jason Wilkerson and Richard Seal
- Created a face recognition login feature module for Sitecore
- Did not submit the module because it was not fully working at the end of the event
FungiQuébec
- Search implementation with facets based on Elasticlunr.js
- Modifications to the Jekyll theme
- Content structure definition
elasticlunr.js
- Added support for multiple queries in a branch in my fork
- Added support for empty queries in a branch in my fork
Quebec City Tech User Groups
- Maintained the list
Sitecore.Demo.Retail
- Created issue #44: Security hole with the commerce runtime administrator user
  - A fix was done to mitigate the issue
Sitecore Habitat
- Created and fixed issue #273: Gulp Nuget Restore Do Not Use the Right MsBuild
  - It was not merged

Become a Sitecore MVP
- Nominated with 14 references in November 2016.
- Became a Sitecore Technology MVP on January 31st 2017.

ASP.NET MVC
- Familiarized with the Razor syntax
- Started the course Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 5
.NET Core
- Did not learn
.NET Core MVC
- Did not learn
Helix Principles
- Did not learn
Azure Webapps and Sitecore 8.2.1+ Azure
- Attended a webinar: Sitecore 8.2 and deployments to Azure

I realize my learning goals were way too ambitious. However, to prepare for the Sitecore Hackathon, I learned the basics of:

Professional Sitecore 8 Development by Phil Wicklund and Jason Wilkerson
- Read the first chapter

A talk at the Sitecore User Group Conference (SUGCON) EU 2017 on May 18-19th in Amsterdam
- Submitted a talk but it did not make the final list of the event
A talk at the Sitecore Symposium 2017 on October 16-19th in Las Vegas
- Submitted a talk but it did not make the final list of the event
Talks at Sitecore User Groups
- Gave only one talk about continuous integration at the Sitecore User Group Quebec which I organize

A talk at the Sitecore User Group Conference (SUGCON) EU 2018 on April 23-24th in Berlin, Germany
A talk at the Sitecore Symposium 2018 on October 8-11th in Orlando, Florida, USA
Talks at the Sitecore User Group Quebec