Rob Habraken | Sitecore

Personal blog about web development & Sitecore

  • Focal point cropping version 3.1 A small but impactful update on my focal point cropping implementation for Content Hub, thanks to a suggestion / feature request from Jorgen Jansson from Creative Folks (thanks again for your wonderful contributions Jorgen!): I…

  • It took a little longer than planned, but I have finally released a completely new version of my Focal point cropping extension for Content Hub, version 3.0. This new version contains a React version of the external page components Focal…

  • When I started sharing my ideas and findings on Sitecore in one of the local user groups back in 2014 I would’ve never believed I once would be able to say this, but I am proud and grateful to be…

  • To improve performance and add new features, Content Hub is replacing the front-end Knockout framework with React from 4.2.x going forward. Using React should also make it easier to develop custom components. This is of course great news, but it…

  • Last week I went to Chicago for the ’22 Sitecore Symposium and my fifth in-person MVP Summit! The theme for this year being composability, with the introduction of no less than four new Sitecore products: XM Cloud, Search, Connect and…

  • Seven is my lucky number. And being awarded an MVP title even once is an amazing honor. So you can imagine how proud and grateful I am to be named Most Valuable Professional by Sitecore for the seventh time in…

  • For quite a while, Action Scripts do not support the use of System.Net.Http.HttpClient anymore and I think that is a good measure to prevent action scripts from doing external (API) calls and enforce an implementation via either an API call…

  • Public links are pre-generated and cached on CDN, and transformations are generated on-the-fly. Also, public links can be custom cropped, thus the algorithm can be influenced to obtain the desired result of focal point cropping; while transformations can only be…

  • Within a few days after launching my focal point crop extension for Content Hub, I already improved my extension quite a bit. Originally, I replaced the original Entity image viewer component, with the idea to add this new focal point…

  • Content Hub has multiple cropping strategies as you might know: crop to center, smart crop and custom crop. Smart cropping is “a feature that intelligently examines the content of an image and automatically focuses on the most important part of…