Tips and Tricks

Christmas Countdown: #3 NIHS - Not Invented Here Syndrome in real life

One of the most common and dreaded diseases in web site development often go undiagnosed and untreated for a long time. But it really should be, cause the effects are scary. Yes, I'm talking about the Not-Invented-Here Syndrome

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December 21 2023

Christmas Countdown: #4 Editors? It's just John and Jane, they know all the quirks - why does edit-mode matter?

An audience that is often neglected are the editors / content creators. That is a shame because happy editors => efficient editors => good content => great online experience.

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December 20 2023

Christmas Countdown: #6 "We LOVE content models - We have _all_ of them!"

The above statement is almost as scary as this: "Content Modelling - is that really needed? We just have one!"

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December 18 2023

Christmas Countdown: #7 DDoS? What's that? What do you mean 'prepared'?

Is your website ready to handle intense usage scenarios like DDoS attacks or black friday? Many people think that testing performance is the same as testing for load - but it's not and sometimes it might even work against each other.

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December 17 2023

Christmas Countdown: #8 Code maintenance is 90% of the work

Greenfield development is by far the most fun for everybody. So it's easy to forget that most development work is actually maintenance. And every new line of code you write means more code to maintain. Almost all codebases I review have significant technical debt. And the debt starts to accumulate from the moment you start coding.

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December 16 2023

Christmas Countdown: #9 What? ViewModels? Nah, we don't need those

This is another classic - with a big impact! Since recycling is great, why don't we just reuse the content model as a view model? We can just enrich it in the controller, right?

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December 15 2023

Christmas Countdown: #10 If it's out there, Google will eventually find it

Have you ever forgotten to protect stuff that wasn't meant to be public? If no, then you are probably a better person than me and most others - both developers and editors alike.

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December 14 2023

Christmas Countdown: #11 Dependency Injection is not as easy as it seems

Dependency Injection is an extremely useful pattern. It has been used with EPiServer CMS for years - and with .NET Core it has truly become the go-to method of coupling your business logic together. However, once you start having services depend on other services their lifetimes can give some unexpected difficulties.

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December 13 2023

Christmas Countdown: common Optimizely CMS Pitfalls - #12 Picking the right add-ons

12 days to Christmas and here is my countdown list of the top 12 common pitfalls I see in Optimizely CMS implementations - along with some tips on how to avoid them. Today we'll take a look at #12 on the list: Picking the right add-ons

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December 12 2023

Optimizely Search & Navigation - Get autocomplete suggestions in right language

When you are using Optimizely Search & Navigation (Find) to help you generate autocomplete suggestions server side in a multi-language scenario it can be tricky (and poorly documented) to figure out how to get the suggestions in the correct language.

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June 5 2023