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Why C# Developers Should Embrace Node.js
Explore why C# developers should embrace Node.js especially with Optimizely's SaaS CMS on the horizon. Understand the shift towards agile web development and how mastering Node.js can open up new opportunities in the evolving digital landscape.
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Setting Up Optimizely on Aspire: A Developer's Walkthrough
Explore the step-by-step guide to setting up Optimizely with dotnet aspire and C# 8.0, tailored for developers seeking to enhance their digital projects. Dive into my comprehensive walkthrough on the Optimizely Aspire GitHub repository.
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Running Optimizely 12 on a Mac
Now that Optimizely 12 runs on .NET 5 it can be run on a Mac, and with most front enders using Macs, I thought it might be useful to demonstrate the steps on how to get it up and running on a Mac.
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New site for Wife of a Geek
Also built on Contentful and Azure Cognitive Search
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How to open rich text links in a new tab in Contentful.net
Contentful doesn't have an option to choose a target for links in a rich text field (yet), so for now I assume that external links should be opened in a new tab. This is achieved with an IContentRenderer.
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Optimizely (Episerver) Content Cloud Exam - My Tips
After sitting the exam, I thought I would document some of the ways I prepared for the exam, and what I found most useful out of the material.
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Optimizely (Episerver) Content Cloud Certification
This week I successfully passed my Optimizely (formerly Episerver) Content Cloud certifcation.
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Improving Contentful Search with Azure Cognitive Search
Contentful does have some basic search functionality, but it is quite limited and quite difficult to implement (at least in .net). So leveraging Contentful webhooks I decided to index the data into Azure Cognitive Search service.
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Generating testable content in Episerver
A simple episerver project with a couple of basic page types to show how an Initializable Module can be used to generate pages that QA and UAT teams can use during their testing/sign off process.
I have used Bogus and Waffle to generate realistic content, the Faker classes can be found in the business module along with the module.
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My go-to nuget packages
A categorised list of nuget packages that I tend to use in most projects. Covers data access, business logic, and presentation packages.
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C# 9.0 - Blurring the lines between object oriented programming and functional programming
There are two basic types of programming languages, object-oriented and functional, what happens with these worlds collide?
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