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New site for Wife of a Geek
A new site for Wife of a Geek, rebuilt on Contentful and Azure Cognitive Search after a frustrating, flaky first version on WordPress.
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How to open rich text links in a new tab in Contentful.net
Contentful rich text has no link target option, so here's how to open external links in a new tab in Contentful.net using 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 passed my Optimizely (formerly Episerver) Content Cloud certification.
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Improving Contentful Search with Azure Cognitive Search
Contentful's built-in search is limited and awkward in .NET, so I used Contentful webhooks to index content into Azure Cognitive Search instead.
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Promoted and Certified
Promoted to Technical Architect at DEPT® UK in the same week I became a Contentful Certified Professional. Next up, the Optimizely certification.
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Tagging in Contentful
Contentful have recently introduced tagging, I think this is a really important step forward for the headless CMS.
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Can you have emoji's in URLs?
Can emoji's be used in URLs, page titles and meta data? 🤔😂😂
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Mediator Design Pattern for CMS builds
My approach to dynamic CMS content using Mediatr (and Automapper)
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Generating testable content in Episerver
Using an Episerver InitializableModule with Bogus and Waffle to generate realistic test pages for QA and UAT teams during sign-off.
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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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Episerver - Initial thoughts
My first thoughts on Episerver after five years on SDL Tridion and Contentful, including its code-first approach and the InitializableModule.
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