A blog about computer stuff

• Cache busting CSS and JS files by hash value

  Maybe you are using the Web Essentials Visual Studio extension or you get your minified CSS and JS files from a Grunt task or similar. Here's a concept of how to serve them on version unique URLs without using querystrings or changing filenames.

  

  Published Sunday 30 August 2015 09:39

• My very simple Caching Reverse Proxy ASP.NET MVC Web Application

  I've published an early version of a thing I put together called Cloud Accelerator on GitHub.

  

  Published Friday 1 May 2015 09:37

• Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce Features with Tag Manager

  The Enhanced Ecommerce Features in Google Analytics are pretty cool. So are the features of Google Tag Manager.

  

  Published Sunday 15 March 2015 13:37

• PowerShell errors when using Episerver Visual Studio Extension

  Trying to install a new Alloy MVC Site in one of my machine's Visual Studio 2013 threw error alerts.

  

  Published Thursday 29 January 2015 09:00

• Working with your own forms in Episerver and MVC

  Custom forms is a common thing to have in a site's templates.

  

  Published Friday 23 January 2015 13:37

• OWIN OIDC authentication on older Episerver sites

  Many have been looking forward to the built-in support for Federated Security in Episerver CMS which is currently Beta released. In a recent case there was no time to wait and I came up with a workaround that could be used in older Epi versions as well.

  

  Published Friday 3 October 2014 11:17

• Episerver start page language based on visitor's IP

  Got tasked with determining and showing start page language based on visitor's IP on a Episerver 7.13 Web Forms site.

  

  Published Monday 30 June 2014 11:29

• XML Sitemap from Episerver Scheduled Job

  A quick post on how to write a valid sitemap.xml file to disk. I used this approach in a scheduled job for Episerver.

  

  Published Friday 31 January 2014 16:19

• Partial Routing with Episerver 7 and Web Forms

  Saw this post on Episerver World about routing and friendly URLs and in that case external data. I had done something similar so I simplified and extracted into an Alloy project.

  

  Published Tuesday 26 November 2013 13:37

• DropDownList Category Picker in Episerver 7

  A client needed the editors to be able to select one category from a SELECT box. I knew there were some built-in controls to make things like this easy in Epi CMS 7.

  

  Published Friday 17 May 2013 16:18