What not to do in a remote job interview

• Wear a t-shirt
• Not wearing pants even if you are not standing up
• Show up with messy hair
• Be sick and not mention it
• Close the door behind you
• Make sure the lighting is good
• Join late for the call
• Making sure the mic is working
• Saying “like” and “um” more than once a minute
• Pronounce the name wrong
• Know nothing about the company
• Know nothing about the position
• Play with your phone – Unless it’s your mom from the hospital
• Forget to mute your phone and notifications – Stop the buzz
• Pick your nose – either one would do
• Not knowing the basics (like the difference between abstract class and interfaces)
• Spout bullshit – You will be surprised how many people can detect that
• Lie
• Talk too much – especially when it’s not related
• Going off on a tangent – talking about bitcoins when asked about the weather
• Show magic tricks
• Brag about materials
• Talk about how you hacked into (read copy pasted/ stolen code/data) from someone

Can’t hide Okta Fastpass notification & it’s killing your vibe?

Trying to get rid of this.

Don’t hide the notification. The app is still running and taking up resources.

Log on to your Okta admin portal.

Go to security > Authenticators.

and uncheck the Fastpass verification option.

Voila! Pop up will disappear as soon as you open your phone back up again.

~ Enjoy and don’t forget to set your out-of-office auto response to something funny. ~

Visual Studio’s Live Share tool is a lifesaver when working from home…

Everyone knows It’s Corona Time. Like many others, I am working from home.

Here is a new tool that I always ignored that has changed our lives lately.

It’s called LIVE SHARE, a Visual Studio add-on.

Get it from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsls-vs

This will adda button to the bottom right corner of your VS. You will need an account to login to VS as well. Once setup just start the share. The url will be automatically copied to your clipboard as well!

We have also been using Loom a lot for recording and sharing screens.

 

~ The only difference between monkeys and us are that we know how to use tools. Once they learn how to do that, we are doomed. ~

 

All the Redirect Rules you will ever need in web.config

Force HTTPS redirect (Permanently)

<rule name="Root Hit Force HTTPS Redirection" enabled="false" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^$" ignoreCase="false" />
    <conditions>
        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
        <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

Sitecore Login & Admin Site Force HTTPS Redirection

<rule name="Sitecore Login or Admin Force HTTPS Redirection" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^(sitecore/(login|admin))$" />
    <conditions>
        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
        <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

Match a pattern and redirect somewhere else

<rule name="Forbidden" enabled="true" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
     <match url="(.*)" />
     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
         <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
         <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)(.*)$" />
     </conditions>
     <action type="Redirect" url="https://destination.com{REQUEST_URI}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>

Redirect to non-www site url

<rule name="RedirectWwwToNonWww" stopProcessing="false">
   <match url="(.*)" />
   <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
       <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)(.*)$" />
   </conditions>
   <action type="Redirect" url="https://{C:2}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

Redirect some domains to another domain

<rule name="all domains to destination" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^destination1.com$" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^destination2.com$" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://destination.com/{R:1}" />
</rule>

Am I missing some? Let me know and I can add more…

 

~ Delayed gratification is my type of happiness only if I am alive that long. ~

Visual Studio – Project Target Framework Not Installed

Seen this before?

Downloading the targeting pack didn’t work? Now you are on the hunt on the internet and finally ended up here?

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer

run the vs_installer.exe

Remember you have to close all open visual studio instances while this is installing.

when the installation is complete, load up visual studio and your project. all should be well.

 

~ We are all bald under our hair. ~

 

 

 

SLACK + SITECORE + YOU

DID YOU KNOW

Sitecore has a very active Slack community.

If you don’t know what Slack is: click here.

If you don’t know what Sitecore is: How did you end us here? rethink your life choices and click here.

The community’s at https://sitecorechat.slack.com/

There are almost four thousand people over there. Talking to each other on a daily basis if not lurking and learning.

There is a bunch of channels set up for us as well.

Channels you can join

• architecture
  Discuss architectural decisions of Sitecore
• azure
  Discuss Sitecore implementations, issues, and suggestions using PaaS
• coveo
  Coveo for Sitecore solution and Coveo in general
• data-exchange
  In this channel, discuss anything related to the Data Exchange Framework, CRM connectors, etc…
• digital-strategy
  Discuss all kinds of strategic things…
• docker
  Discussions around the use of Docker in a Sitecore context
• eCommerce
• exm
• gaming
  Channel for Sitecore developers that love to game! Chat, hangout, play games together 😀
• glass
  discuss anything and everything about Glass.
• habitathome
  Discuss all things related to the Habitat Home demo sites

Go sign up today and explore.

~ There is no life without if. ~