Robert Guyett's Blog

Communicate on Another Level Over the years I've dedicated a lot of energy into being able to communicate and understand Project Managers, Product Owners, Programmers with various skill levels and specializations, and APIs. However, that list doesn't include anyone with a broader level of concerns. The past couple years I've noticed I've had to communicate more and more with Executives, Business Owners, and Managers of various levels more and more as my responsibilities increase and my impact on projects become greater. So the goal is to learn to communicate with people who care less about the inside workings of the project at hand and more about funding, timeline, overall health, and impact of multiple projects. Ground Level I am a software engineer. I understand how code works and how to take an end goal and break it down into smaller tasks for success including the fine intricate details. I can organize code and explain how code works with other sets of code or...

Sitecore Module for VueJS I recently worked on a Sitecore 9.1 project where we got the chance to use a front end framework called VueJS. If you haven't had the chance to work with VueJS you should check them out  https://vuejs.org/ . It was very nice to work with once we got through some of the kinks. One of those issues was that VueJS is driven by javascript (duh!)...not HTML....You know what likes to spit out HTML though? Sitecore! The Challenge How do we make it so we can use Sitecore's placeholders and Sitecore's render methods with all of the nesting glory that can be done with them into a VueJS template? The Solution To make a VueJS component that accepts the same formats Sitecore uses of course! Under the hood, Sitecore renders a begin tag element and an end tag element. What we know: The most basic render method just takes those two properties and slaps them together to form a whole html element. VueJS utilizes a simple tree structure for components ...