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In some of my recent discussions with CMS developers, I saw one simple and easy, yet a trick question around Custom Attribute and Conditional Properties. One of such question was like, How would you Show OR Hide a property in the site, on a...
The above statement is almost as scary as this: "Content Modelling - is that really needed? We just have one!"
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.
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 significan...
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?
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.
A few versions ago, Optimizely CMS added inline blocks functionality. This is a very useful feature which enables the Editor to create dynamic pages using ContentArea. The publishing cycle of blocks is related to the page on which they are used, s...
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 o...