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Jesper Balle

Denmark

MVP 2025

Technology

Denmark
MVP 2024

Technology

Denmark

Timeline

2025

31/Jan

Technology 2025

Technology 2025

2024

28/Oct

Sitecore XM is still around

Sitecore XM

2024

24/Oct

SugDk event

Took major part of organizing an event in SugDk the danish user group, hosting at my employer Valtech and I spoke about Sitecore Search and updates from Symposium

Sitecore XM Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

24/Oct

Speaking at SugDk event about Sitecore Search

I spoke about Sitecore Search, powershell module and updates from Symposium

Sitecore Search

2024

14/Oct

MVP Summit

2024

19/Sep

Reported error in Sitecore Search preventing locale specific configuration of widgets

Support ticket CS0490689

2024

7/Sep

Vercel protected environments and Sitecore Search

Sitecore XM Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

11/Aug

Sitecore Search in the world of NextJs and DevOps

Sitecore XM Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

11/Aug

Feedback on documentation site regarding Sitecore Search boosting configuration

Sitecore Search

2024

4/Jun

Request context for Sitecore Search Reach SDK - the subQuery problem

Sitecore Search

2024

4/Jun

GitHub workflow to manage Sitecore XM Cloud environments

Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

23/May

Automated pipelines without secrets

Sitecore XM Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

3/May

GitHub actions and Azure without secrets

2024

21/Apr

Beta test of Sitecore Search Business User certification

Sitecore Search

2024

12/Apr

SugCon: Sitecore Search in the world of NextJs and DevOps

Sitecore XM Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

11/Apr

Meeting with Nick Papadogoulas

Agreed with Nick to meet physically when we were both in Dublin for SugCon to discuss current and future state of Sitecore Search and give our feedback

Sitecore Search

2024

12/Mar

Dictionary service in Sitecore NextJS

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

2/Mar

Sitecore Hackathon

Participated as Team 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons - and won

2024

2/Mar

Hackathon News Mixer

News Mixer is a multilingual AI-driven summary generator, consuming content from one or more sources. The content is then being processed by a variety of configurable AI based transformers to create the summaries in the desired style, after which it is outputted to the desired targets.

Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

31/Jan

Technology 2024

Technology 2024

2024

30/Jan

Public PowerShell module to interact with Sitecore Search and serialize configuration

Sitecore Search

2024

10/Jan

Date and time handling in NextJS with Sitecore

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

1/Jan

Slack

Being active in the Slack community

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore Search Sitecore Send Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

23/Nov

Sitecore Search presentation for Sitecore User group France

I gave an introduction and walkthrough of some of our usage of Sitecore Search at an online event in the Sitecore User Group for France. I share the presentation on my blog https://www.balle-net.dk/posts/search-sugfr-2023/

Sitecore Search

2023

3/Nov

Using Sitecore Search REST api in NextJS

Using Sitecore Search in combination with XM Cloud to solve use of composition pages across site

Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

15/Oct

Sitecore Search with React UI SDK

Using the newly released UI SDK for Sitecore Search

Sitecore Search

2023

27/Sep

Beta XM Cloud Exam

I got the chance to participate in beta test of the upcoming XM Cloud exam. I have not posted anything about it due to the agreement for the beta test

Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

10/Sep

Sitecore Search indexing

On how to get started with indexing for Sitecore Search and some pitfalls

Sitecore Search

2023

1/Sep

NextJS Sitecore Dictionary

Using dictionary items in headless NextJS site

2023

15/Aug

Sitecore Helix - implementing headless Nextjs based site

Regarding project structure in NextJs site and discussions on if and how Helix is still relevant

2023

11/Aug

Sitemaps with Sitecore Headless SXA

Walkthrough of how sitemaps are used, configured and generated in Sitecore Headless SXA

Sitecore XM Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

1/Jul

Headless SXA

Initial look at headless SXA

Sitecore XM Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

24/Mar

Sitecore Search: Real case PoC at Sugcon

Initial look at Sitecore Search and present on SugCon I link to the presentation from blogpost https://www.balle-net.dk/posts/search-sugcon2023/

2023

15/Mar

Reflections on our Hackathon contribution

We participated in Hackathon. Here I reflect on how it went and how our implementation can be used

2023

4/Mar

Hackathon

Participated in Hackathon together with two good friends and colleagues. We made a nice setup with webhooks and browser extensions to support extending XM Cloud with audit trails in a scalable manner. We actually won. https://sitecorehackathon.org/sitecore-hackathon-2023/

Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

2/Feb

BlogPost discussions regarding Sitecore Helix

Blog post adressing some of the discussions regarding Helix structure

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

1/Jan

Sitecore Slack

I follow and participate in the discussion in Sitecore Slack, especially regarding #Search and #docker

2022

10/Dec

Extending Sitecore CLI

Post to share and follow up on talk regarding extending sitecore cli