Andy Thompson

Recently I've been tasked with generating some simulated analytics traffic for our Officecore demo solution. I've been using the TrafficGenerator to do this, this is available on marketplace, but get the package from here: https://github.com/JimmieOverby/SitecoreTrafficGenerator The link on marketplace goes to an older version 0.42, 0.43 is available in the packages section. Getting the data in a has come with a few development considerations. On that basis I thought I'd discuss them and share the solutions I found. Caching: The first thing to consider is that the data you see in the engagement analytics dashboard is not real time. There are a couple of levels of caching that can make the results you see not what you expect. These levels are: Browser:  The refresh button needs to be pressed, the graphs will not auto update. The file Silverlight creates will be cached by the browser,  I found a post here,  http://sitecoreblog.alexshyba.com/2009/04/silv

My current job title is "Technical Pre-Sales Consultant" its pretty self explanatory, but during my career I've worked as a developer, technical lead, consultant, scrum manager, I could probably go on but it would be a pretty boring post. I'll get to the point, the best career title I could assign myself is "problem solver". I just love to solve problems, a simple bug in a piece of code, complex distributed system architecture, or improving  process to accelerate project delivery and maximise margin, I'm not fussy, I'll solve them all. A notorious rapper  once versed "Mo money, mo problems", I'm not sure if this makes me normal, but that's music to my ears. As a technical consultant I'm aware of the benefits of service oriented architecture and agile delivery (when implemented correctly). Mediation between loosely couple distributed systems, small chucks of manageable work, and responding quickly to change. It got me thinki