By using the picture element together with ImageProcessor, you can create a robust solution for responsive images. With this solution you can very quickly make sure that you at least don't serve way too big images. Once that is done, you can add more image sizes and fine tune the media queries, to further optimize … Continue reading Picture element + ImageProcessor = responsive images made easy
Automate your Episerver site definitions
We've all been there. Restoring a copy of the production database on your development or test-environment, start the site and you get a 404. Argh, I forgot to set the correct site definitions! Again! Fig 1. The freaking site definitions In a multi site environment you can have a lot of different site definitions, and … Continue reading Automate your Episerver site definitions
Penny-pinching your Episerver Azure environment
What's the cost for hosting an Episerver test environment on Azure? And what can you do to minimize those costs? Calculating the price for hosting on Azure is a bit complex, so it's hard to say what a certain setup would cost for you. You can use the price calculator here to see the list-price. … Continue reading Penny-pinching your Episerver Azure environment
Schedule scaling of your Azure resources
This blog post shows how you can use Azure Functions and PowerShell to schedule scaling of Azure resources. Something that can save you quite a few bucks if you for example scale down test environments during nights and weekends, when they're not used anyway. I use Azure environments for a lot of things. I'm doing … Continue reading Schedule scaling of your Azure resources
Review of the “Pro Episerver commerce” book
A while ago I wanted to learn more about Episerver Commerce. I started by buying Quan Mai's book "Pro Episerver commerce". Here are my thoughts on that book. I have long experience with Episerver CMS, but very little experience with Episerver Commerce, or any other commerce solution for that matter. For me, this book was … Continue reading Review of the “Pro Episerver commerce” book
Performance when using controllers for blocks
Sometimes you may consider using controllers for all blocks, instead of just having the view engine select the correct view. As far as I know the only real difference is performance. But how much will performance be affected if you choose to use controllers for all blocks? TL;DR: around 10% better performance without controller, according … Continue reading Performance when using controllers for blocks
Use PowerShell to set up an Episerver environment in Azure
Remember the time when setting up an Episerver environment took hours? I don't mean your local dev-environment, I mean a test or production environment with IIS and SQL server. Maybe you got access to one or two freshly installed Windows machines where you needed to install windows features, IIS addons, SQL server, et.c. And more … Continue reading Use PowerShell to set up an Episerver environment in Azure
A super simple geo-coordinates property for Episerver
This blog post shows how to extend Episerver with a property where editors can enter an address that will be converted to latitude/longitude. It's the latitude/longitude value that is saved. Suggestions for addresses/locations will be shown while typing. If you want to show a location on a map you need to know the coordinates for … Continue reading A super simple geo-coordinates property for Episerver
Episever CMS 10 exam tips
A few day ago I passed the Episerver CMS 10 certification exam. Here are some tips if you plan to do the same. Note that this is not a full list of the knowledge areas. This is just a list of the areas that (I'm pretty sure) are new to the CMS 10 exam: Episerver Forms. … Continue reading Episever CMS 10 exam tips
Episerver – How to know a block’s position in a content area
Sometimes you want to render a block differently depending on what position it has in a content area. Per Magne Skuseth presented a solution some years ago. Here's a couple of alternate ways of solving the same issue. Know the index of a block using a controller Add a tag (e.g. "IndexInContentArea") when rendering the content … Continue reading Episerver – How to know a block’s position in a content area