Blog posts by Mark Everard2020-02-24T08:39:44.0000000Z/blogs/Mark-Everard/Optimizely WorldLondon Developer Meetup – 31st Marchhttp://www.markeverard.com/?p=64242020-02-24T08:39:44.0000000ZCome along at the end of March for our Spring Meetup and find out in detail about Episerver’s plans for .NET Core, their latest personalisation acquisition (Idio) and share stories, opinions, tips and tricks with your fellow community members. When: TUESDAY MARCH 31st 2020 from 1830 Where: Zone Digital – Western Transit Shed 12-13 Stable […]London Developer Meetup – 31st Marchhttp://www.markeverard.com/?p=64242020-02-24T08:39:44.0000000ZCome along at the end of March for our Spring Meetup and find out in detail about Episerver’s plans for .NET Core, their latest personalisation acquisition (Idio) and share stories, opinions, tips and tricks with your fellow community members. When: TUESDAY MARCH 31st 2020 from 1830 Where: Zone Digital – Western Transit Shed 12-13 Stable […]Episerver London Developer Meetup – Spring 2019http://www.markeverard.com/?p=63442019-01-28T01:00:40.0000000ZHot on the heels of Sydney, we’ve also got a Meetup planned for London. This time, we’re hosted by Episerver themselves in their shiny new offices in Central London! When – Thursday 21st February – 6pm – 9pm Where – Episerver, 3rd floor Cargo Works 1-2 Hatfields London SE19PG The latest UK EMVP (Scott Reed) […]Episerver London Developer Meetup – Spring 2019https://www.markeverard.com/2019/01/28/episerver-london-developer-meetup-spring-20192019-01-28T00:00:40.0000000ZHot on the heels of Sydney, we’ve also got a Meetup planned for London. This time, we’re hosted by Episerver themselves in their shiny new offices in Central London!What’s going on in the World?https://www.markeverard.com/?p=61842018-04-18T15:43:01.0000000ZAs Episerver has grown, so has the developer community. It now stands at just over 40,000 members. A community this big creates a lot of good content, which alongside the more frequent news from Episerver (releases updates, articles and documentation) means it’s becoming easy to miss useful stuff on Episerver World that may help you […]What’s going on in the World?https://www.markeverard.com/2018/04/18/whats-going-on-in-the-world2018-04-18T14:43:01.0000000ZAs Episerver has grown, so has the developer community. It now stands at just over 40,000 members.Azure Functions, ASP.NET Standard and Getting Started with Episerver from Umbracohttp://www.markeverard.com/?p=61242018-04-03T11:17:22.0000000ZWe’ve now finalised the agenda for the London Episerver Meetup on the 12th April at Valtech. Don’t forget to RSVP on Meetup to let us know you’re coming. Agenda We’ll be starting at 1830, briefly stopping for when the pizza’s turn up, and finishing at 9pm (where we’ll move to a local pub for those […]Azure Functions, ASP.NET Standard and Getting Started with Episerver from Umbracohttps://www.markeverard.com/2018/04/03/azure-functions-asp-net-standard-and-getting-started-with-episerver-from-umbraco2018-04-03T10:17:22.0000000ZWe’ve now finalised the agenda for the London Episerver Meetup on the 12th April at Valtech.London Episerver Developer Meetup Spring 2018http://www.markeverard.com/?p=60442018-03-28T23:16:06.0000000ZThe Episerver Ascend party may have just finished in Las Vegas but that doesn’t mean the fun stops! Our next Episerver Developer Meetup (London) will be on Thursday 12th April. We are being hosted this time by our kind friends at Valtech who are based in Angel and will make sure there is plenty of […]London Episerver Developer Meetup Spring 2018https://www.markeverard.com/2018/03/28/london-episerver-developer-meetup-spring-20182018-03-28T22:16:06.0000000ZThe Episerver Ascend party may have just finished in Las Vegas but that doesn’t mean the fun stops!GDPR and Episerver cookieshttp://www.markeverard.com/?p=59342017-10-26T18:38:57.0000000ZMany organisations are currently working hard in an effort to be prepared for the incoming GDPR regulations that come into effect 25th May 2018. The new law heralds a big change for online services in particular, and includes the use of cookies and similar technologies within its remit. As part of that preparation, organisations are making sure they […]GDPR and Episerver cookieshttps://www.markeverard.com/2017/10/26/gdpr-and-episerver-cookies2017-10-26T17:38:57.0000000ZMany organisations are currently working hard in an effort to be prepared for the incoming GDPR regulations that come into effect 25th May 2018. The new law heralds a big change for online services in particular, and includes the use of cookies and similar technologies within its remit.ImageDataExtensions for Episerver 10http://www.markeverard.com/?p=45612017-03-16T16:12:04.0000000ZThanks to Luc Gosso embracing the true meaning of open source software and ‘community’ (you give back at least as much as you take, in case you’re wondering) there is now a version of my ImageDataExtensions package compatible with Episerver CMS 10. Why the long wait? Ignoring another small package that has entirely changed how […]London Episerver Developer Meetup Spring 2017 is March 23rdhttp://www.markeverard.com/?p=45212017-03-08T11:29:51.0000000ZHopefully this won’t be news to anyone, as you should have received an email direct from the Episerver developer mailing list. Wait, what do you mean you haven’t signed up? Do it now! Where and when? Thanks to RedWeb who are kindly hosting (and Episerver too), we’re having another Meetup on the 23rd March 2017. […]London Episerver Developer Meetup Spring 2017 is March 23rdhttps://www.markeverard.com/2017/03/08/london-episerver-developer-meetup-spring-2017-is-march-23rd2017-03-08T10:29:51.0000000ZHopefully this won’t be news to anyone, as you should have received an email direct from the Episerver developer mailing list. Wait, what do you mean you haven’t signed up? Do it now!Publish all the things!http://markeverardcom.azurewebsites.net/?p=44012016-03-07T12:00:01.0000000ZIf you’ve seen some of my recent posts you’ll know I’ve been playing around with WebHooks. These are simple HTTP requests to endpoints allowing services to exchange data and events. Integration Platforms as a Service Those of you cool kids will have known about IFTTT (If This Then That) for some time. It’s a online […]How exactly do you need to manage your content?http://markeverardcom.azurewebsites.net/?p=43812016-02-29T12:00:29.0000000ZDetailed content management requirements are often overlooked in the design and build of a content managed website. This can result in an implementation that lacks flexibility and incurs higher costs over its lifetime. Dual purpose Web Content Management (WCM/CMS) implementations deliver two key capabilities for an organisation: A website, perhaps with a new or updated […]London Episerver Developer Meetup Spring 2016http://markeverardcom.azurewebsites.net/?p=43612016-02-15T09:26:31.0000000ZSpring is on its way (think daffodils and lambs) and so is Episerver’s next Developer Meetup. Zone have very kindly offered to host the meetup at their laid back offices in Kings Cross. And Episerver will be supplying the pizzas and beers – after all, it’s not a meetup without it. We have a great […]RSS feeds for Episerverhttp://markeverardcom.azurewebsites.net/?p=43412016-02-03T11:00:38.0000000ZI’ve released a few further tweaks to my RSS / ATOM add-on for Episerver – CHIEF2MORO.SyndicationFeeds. Whats new in version 3.0? On request filtering I’ve taken another look at filtering, which is a feature included from version 2. I’ve modified the inbuilt IFeedContentFilterer to allow Feed pages to filter items by category via querystring parameters. […]Using WebHooks in an EPiServer solutionhttp://markeverardcom.azurewebsites.net/?p=43112015-11-11T11:49:02.0000000ZWebHooks are a way of connecting internet / cloud services together. They allow websites to communicate with each other via HTTP callbacks. Services can subscribe (via HTTP) to receive notifications from publishers about a specific event. Publishers, manage these subscriptions and then on each event push notifcations via an HTTP Post to each receiver, at […]