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In this series, I will talk about the Optimizely CMS/Commerce upgrade project(s) with some do's and don'ts as well as tips & tricks for a successful implementation. We can all agree depending on the complexity of the implementation, the ugprade...

Aniket

Securing your website is as important a topic as it is large and complex. In this post I will not go into too many details, but highlight a few problems I often see in Optimizely/EPiServer CMS implementations.

Allan Thraen

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...

Rajesh Katare

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

Allan Thraen

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.

Allan Thraen

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...

Allan Thraen

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?

Allan Thraen

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.

Allan Thraen