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Improving Contentful Search with Azure Cognitive Search
Blog Post - 3 minute ReadContentful 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.
Tagging in Contentful
Blog Post - 2 minute ReadContentful have recently introduced tagging, I think this is a really important step forward for the headless CMS.
Can you have emoji's in URLs?
Blog Post - 1 minute ReadCan emoji's be used in URLs, page titles and meta data? 🤔😂😂
Mediator Design Pattern for CMS builds
Blog Post - 1 minute ReadMy approach to dynamic CMS content using Mediatr (and Automapper)
Generating testable content in Episerver
Blog Post - 1 minute ReadA 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.
My go-to nuget packages
Blog Post - 3 minute ReadA categorised list of nuget packages that I tend to use in most projects. Covers data access, business logic, and presentation packages.
Episerver - Initial thoughts
Blog Post - 2 minute ReadAfter primarily working with SDL Tridion for the past 5 years (along with Contentful) and prior to that Umbraco. I have recently started working with Episerver, and I wanted to give my initial thoughts on it. After starting the training/certification I noticed some really nice features such as the code first approach and InitializableModule.
C# 9.0 - Blurring the lines between object oriented programming and functional programming
Blog Post - 3 minute ReadThere are two basic types of programming languages, object-oriented and functional, what happens with these worlds collide?
Sitemap Driven Load Test
Blog Post - 1 minute ReadA nice script I put together to do load testing based on the contents of a sitemap.
SDL Topology Generator
Blog Post - 1 minute ReadMy solution to the writing SDL Web Topology Powershell scripts
Blazor gRPC Image Search
ProjectI wanted to better understand Blazor and gRPC, so quickly knocked this together, it doesn't do anything fancy, but I got Blazor loading in from a gRPC stream endpoint and all setup with .proto files.