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CoveoBlitz - BlitzDay

Written By
Andy Emond

Update: Links to the Blitz registration page were added.

Blitzday

Saturday. 7 AM. Normally I’d be sleeping in. But alas, this Saturday is not like your regular Saturday. I’m wide awake and super hyped. No, this isn’t the first chapter of my new fantasy book, it’s real. It’s Blitzday. I’m ready to crush through code like never before.

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CoveoBlitz - the journey to a memorable event

Written By
Andy Emond

Update: Links to the Blitz registration page were added.

A New Competition Appears! And Its Name Is Coveo Blitz

The first time I heard about the Coveo Blitz was through a spam^H^H^H^H email from my school faculty informing me that some company I’d never heard of from Quebec was organizing a coding competition. Having nothing else to do and looking for some way to hone my coding skills, I enlisted my friends to register for the competition as a group. After all, the only requirement they asked for registration was to be able to send an email (something I, and others apparently, still fail to properly do even today).

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Testing a TypeScript Custom Component

Written By
François Lachance-Guillemette

Now that we have created a custom component, we want to test its interactions with the Coveo JavaScript Search Framework.

This post offers a deep dive into the Custom Coveo JavaScript component testing world.

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Creating a Custom Randomizer Component

Written By
Alexandre Moreau & François Lachance-Guillemette

In our last post about Randomizing Results from a Coveo Index, we talked about how we managed to create a search page that returns random results from our index. Following this, we wanted to have a full-fledged custom component for the sake of doing things cleanly (we love “clean” at Coveo).

This post will go in-depth about our journey to “Component-ize” our randomizer using TypeScript.

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The perfect Salesforce CI setup using SFDX, NodeJS, and NPM

Written By
Marc-Antoine Veilleux

I’ve been working with the Salesforce platform at Coveo for about 3 years. In those 3 years, I always had the feeling that there was something missing in our continuous integration setup. A couple of years ago, we’ve automated the process of creating a managed package using PhantomJS. As a software developer, this is a well-deserved upgrade.

Since then, we were able to gain a lot of speed in our release process. But still, there was something missing. There was a void in my developer life. Demoing, reviewing, and testing new features on our package was near impossible and needed a lot of effort. Since Salesforce organizations can’t be created easily, a developer had to create a new org, push all the code to that org from their machine, give credentials to everyone, etc. A lot of works on my machine(TM) and Jenkins is weird happened using that method.

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Continuous Integration of a Sitecore Project Using AppVeyor

Written By
Jean-François L'Heureux

Continuous integration (CI) is the act of automatically compiling code and running its tests every time a change is made. It is an important step in a project to ensure quality and save time. It needs to be implemented before continuously deploying an application.

In this post, I will explore how to configure CI with AppVeyor using the Sitecore Habitat demo project.

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Best UX Search Practices Part 2 - The Search Results Page

Written By
Anne-Catherine Verrette

Companies are becoming more and more aware of the importance of offering a good search experience on their website. From increases in purchases on ecommerce websites to getting fewer cases on their support and community websites, companies are realizing that helping users find what they are looking for faster and more easily results in a great overall experience.

In the previous blog post, I explained why having a prominent search box is essential. In the second part of this series, I will talk about the key elements to have in your search result page.

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Coveo for Sitecore Hive: What is it?

Written By
Simon Langevin

Last week, we released Coveo for Sitecore 4.1, and with it the Coveo for Sitecore Hive framework. Obviously, the documentation followed as well as a high level blog post, but I wanted to explain in my own words what this release is all about.

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AWS Redshift best practices, tips and tricks - part 2

Written By
Jonathan Rochette

In my last post, I shared some of the wisdom I gathered over the 4 years I’ve worked with AWS Redshift. Since I’m not one for long blog posts, I decided to keep some for a second post. Here goes!

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Search Best Practices Part 1 - The Search Box

Written By
Anne-Catherine Verrette

Organizations are becoming more and more aware of the importance of offering a good search experience on their website. From an increase in purchases on ecommerce websites to getting fewer cases on their support and community websites, companies are realizing that helping users find what they want faster and more easily results in a greater overall user experience.

In this series of blog posts, I will explain why having a good search experience is vital for any website. This blog post will tell you about the importance of the search box.

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