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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

Live on Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8

"Better late than never" is a fitting saying here. We've finally gotten around to updating the CodeArt.dk website to Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8!

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December 10 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

Easy property inheritance in Optimizely CMS

Ever needed a way to inherit property values down through the page hierarchy in Optimizely CMS 12? Now there is an easy way to enable that.

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June 5 2023

Make some asset types download automatically in Optimizely CMS 12 using the Digizuite integration

Here is just a quick tip for how you can do custom blob http handling when using the Digizuite integration to Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12.

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March 2 2023

When best practice isn't the best - Dependency Injection and Optimizely CMS

Some people live and breath 'best practice' development. I am not one of them. Risk is, in-experienced developers (or sometimes experienced) might use them just cause they are 'best practice' and not think more about it. Even when it turns out they are not. Here is little example...