Freddy Rueda

Technology 2025

Statistics from Sitecore TEK blog page and LinkedIn

This document compiles the statistics given by my blog page and my LinkedIn profile regarding how my content has been accepted during this year.

Sitecore Live Workshop - Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro

During the workshop, students were introduced to the basic concepts of Sitecore: from creating a Template, and mapping content to Next.js components, to generating and presenting content on a website.

NextJS methods to Call Open AI API

Code for generating the call from XM Cloud to the OpenAI API to perform a translation.

Error in the Content Editor link

When I'm trying to access the Content Editor since the Pages UI, it redirects to a bad URL. It says "xmc-local-xm-cloud" in the URL.

SUGLATAM Roundtable: Sitecore Experiences from a Technical Perspective

A journey through Sitecore’s evolution, we discussed how to build effective teams for Sitecore projects, and examined what developers can expect when starting their journey with this amazing platform.

Sitecore Day EPN - Live Sitecore Workshop

I lead another Sitecore Live workshop with the students at Escuela Politécnica Nacional. They gained firsthand experience with a world-class CMS, I talked about concepts like Headless architecture and the flexibility Sitecore offers for developers. I demonstrated an example using Next.js, guiding them through template creation, field mapping, and rendering results on the site.

Typos on the Content Hub Developer Study Guide

There is a typo in the beginning of the course, I opened the developer study guide and the content mentioned the Administrator study guide. Also, it says "Administartors" instead of "Administrators"

SUGJPR Talk: Discovering Webhooks in XM Cloud

Understanding what Webhooks are and how we can leverage amazing features in XM Cloud. Bonus topic: Mutations with GraphQL.

Let's Talk SUGLATAM 2, Backstage support

In SUGLatam, at each event we have, all the organizers team participate in different roles. In the 2nd Let's Talk SUGLATAM I was one of the cameramen who recorded the event and helped with other coordinating activities to make guests feel good.

Sitecore DXP a very customer-centric plaftorm

Answering some questions about Sitecore DXP on the G2 Portal, giving feedback about the platform, and mentioning that customers can grow at their own pace with Sitecore, and also how this platform is supported by a huge and friendly community of professionals willing always to help.

Article: The Role of Digital Experience Platforms in Technological Innovation

ISSN: 2773-7721 9th Edition of UISEK Global: Technological Innovation magazine. Page 37 of the document. Page 40 of the digital viewer.

Creating Elasticsearch analyzers from Sitecore

These files contain an example of an Elasticsearch code that will run on its console to create an analyzer, and a close to create the analyzer but from Sitecore.

Let's Talk SUGLATAM

I discussed how Sitecore enhances the digital experience by enabling the creation of stunning, reliable, and secure web applications that provide users with the best possible experience through personalized content for each target audience

Important: Security Patch Alert for the Community – Immediate Action Required

A security vulnerability had to be tackled. so I shared this post to warn the community about an important communication of Sitecore to customers and partners.

Celebrate: Sitecore named a Leader in enterprise headless Digital Commerce

I'm proud to be part of this family. Cheers for Sitecore!

XM Cloud Migration Tool

I interacted with Rob Lloyd and Marcus Heath about an error that the XM Cloud Migration tool was presenting. I helped Rob check various options to resolve the problem, and after around two weeks of communication with him, he finally released a new version and the XM Cloud Migration Tool was operative. I could do a migration of templates and some content from my Sitecore 10 instance to XM Cloud.

Shows the world Sitecore 10.4 is here

I shared with the developer's community the highlights of the release of Sitecore 10.4, an important release that Sitecore did to make this product more reliable and secure.

SUGCON Dublin appearance

I applied to be part of the speaker's team at Dublin, I couldn't get it, but thanks to Sebastian Winter who shared that photo with me and made me participate at a distance. This year I will apply again to be a speaker on SUGCON. Sharing this photo sparked curiosity in my audience about the remarkable events hosted by Sitecore.

Another real case of an implementation with Sitecore Composable, with Oshyn as a partner

This post is particularly meaningful to me as I had the privilege of being part of the Oshyn team that built the project from the ground up. Starting with XM Cloud from scratch, I not only gained hands-on experience with the tool but also contributed to its evolution, helping Sitecore refine and mature this incredible product. This demonstrates how a composable approach has incredible value for our clients.

SUGDE Special Lunch Talk

I have the opportunity to be part of the SUGDE Special Lunch with the talk: Extending personalization capabilities with Sitecore Personalize on XM. I share in a Live demo how to work with decision models and web experiences and integrate them into a XM implementation.

Participating in Sitecore Hackathon 2024

Being part of this amazing contest is a way to validate knowledge, bring ideas, enhance teamwork, test the body resistance, and of course, have a lot of fun. A great way to interact with the AI and Sitecore.

Fishtank finds helpful my blog and takes it at a base for one of them

David Austin at Fishtank mentions and references my blog regarding Personalize and Decision Models which serve as the base of his blog entry.

The feaas.js plugin file is not found

In the documentation about Registering an External React Component the troubleshooting section says that we need to download a file, the link is broken, and there's no file.

Sitecore Day Riobamba - Sitecore Workshop

The first live workshop I led was at Escuela Politécnica de Riobamba, where students engaged with Sitecore, exploring templates, renderings, and content mapping. It was a fantastic experience and an opportunity for students to discover world-class platforms like Sitecore.

Double sc_site parameter on Link Type url in Pages

In Pages, when I want to edit the values for an internal link type, and point to another site item, the URL generates a double "sc_site" parameter by default and gets an error, removing one of the sc_site parameter works.

Creating personalized Digital Experiences with Sitecore DXP

Presentation to Business Administration students of UISEK (Universidad Internacional SEK) about Sitecore DXP and how Sitecore gives a world-class solution to the Digital Experience market.

Talk at UISEK

Presenting Sitecore to the Academy Community leaves Business Administration students impressed and fascinated.

Jason St-Cyr recognize my blog about common challenges in XM Cloud development useful to the community

Jason shares my blog with those who are starting or are thinking of starting with XM Cloud development.

Transform the idea of Sitecore Day Yachay into a reality.

As a co-founder of SUG Latam, I had the vision of organizing a Sitecore Day at Yachay Tech University. I approached the necessary channels, successfully secured a meeting with the university authorities, and obtained permission to conduct informative and technical talks about Sitecore. It was a great event and a significant achievement.

Basic code to execute GraphQL queries in XM Cloud NextJs

This gist contains the files that show how to execute GraphQL queries. It supports the blog "XM Cloud Development: Tips for Overcoming Common Challenges (Part 2)"

XM Cloud Development: Tips for Overcoming Common Challenges (Part 1)

This blog post highlights some of the common challenges I've faced (as well as others, as I've observed in community channels) when starting to develop in XM Cloud. Its purpose is to assist as many people as possible, helping them save time and understand the basics of XM Cloud implementations. This is part 1 of 2 on this topic, which I divided to avoid writing a very long post.

Thinking about composable

A post that explains how to migrate to XM Cloud and its benefits. Indeed, the concerns for customers decrease substantially.

Beta Testing: XM Cloud Developer Certification Exam

I participated in the Beta Testing XM Cloud Developer Certification Exam and gave my feedback on the documentation. I was glad to help improve the documentation for developers who want to get the certification. NOTE: Please check the resolved comments too, because by default the link only shows the unresolved comments, look for [email protected] comments.

Send Sitecore Personalize Decision Model Result as an input parameter to GraphQL within XM Cloud code

This blog post shows a complete integration between XM Cloud (NextJs code) -> Sitecore Personalize -> API -> GraphQL to show personalized content based on a decision model result in a .tsx component. It helps to understand many concepts around XM Cloud development like Middleware Plugins, API endpoints, Server-set cookies integration, among others.

Publication of my blog in the August Sitecore for Developers Newsletter.

"XM Cloud: Work with GraphQL in your local environment Learn how to work with GraphQL in a local environment when using XM Cloud in Sitecore, highlighting the challenges and solutions of retrieving content from the content tree and testing queries in a development environment."

XM Cloud: How to work with GraphQL in your local environment

In this blog post, I explain how to work in the XM Cloud local environment with the GraphQL Playground IDE. Very useful to test the GraphQL queries before implementing those in our solution.

XM Cloud: Working with Placeholders in Sitecore Pages, end-to-end guide

An end-to-end guide about how to work with placeholders in XM Cloud. For those who start working with XM Cloud here will find all the details involved until we can see the placeholder in Pages.

Engagement cloud

In Sitecore, everything is connected and can take leverage of the data and interactions of users with Engagement Cloud.

An introduction to Sitecore Search

A presentation to the world of what Sitecore Search brings, letting boost the search requirements of our sites.

Publication of my blog in the June Sitecore for Developers Newsletter.

Get Sitecore Personalize Decision Model result on your Backend code. Explore this step-by-step guide on how to obtain personalized content for specific groups of users based on their behavior, using Sitecore Personalize Decision Model. Learn how set the logic and rules, create a web experience, and connect to the Sitecore Personalize API.

Personalize class to call Sitecore Personalize API

This gist contains the classes that support the blog "How to get Sitecore Personalize Decision Model result on my Sitecore Backend code".

SUG Latam was born

In the Woman Tech Talk Event, in Quito, SUG Latam was officially born into Sitecore's world. I'm very proud to be one of the Co-Founders of this Sitecore User Group.

Sitecore: Extending Key Lookup Value field type

In this blog post, I describe how to add a column in the Key Lookup Value Type in Sitecore 9, due to this type of field has a key and value, sometimes we need a third column to give extra meaning to these entries, in this case, to order them by the content editor criteria.