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Simple Feature Flags In Optimizely CMS
A simple approach to feature flagging within Optimizely CMS.
LLMS.txt support comes to Stott Robots Handler v5
Stott Robots Handler for Optimizely CMS 12 has been released with added support for llms.txt files.
Optimizing Content Security Policies to Stay Within HTTP Header Limits
Discover how to audit, reduce, and optimize Content Security Policies. Helping you stay within browser and CDN header size limits.
Stott Security Version 3
A summary of all new functionality and changes that have been introduced to the Stott Security module so far.
Opti ID with Secure Cookies And Third Party AddOns
How to make sure your cookies and third party addons are properly secured when using Opti ID.
Creating an Optimizely Addon - Best Practices
Best practices for creating an Optimizely CMS AddOn.
Creating an Optimizely Addon - Packaging for NuGet
How to package your AddOn to be distributed by Optimizely's NuGet feed.
Creating an Optimizely CMS Addon - Adding an Editor Interface Gadget
How to create an editor interface gadget within Optimizely CMS PAAS Core.
Creating an Optimizely AddOn - Getting Started
How to create an AddOn with it's own UI within Optimizely CMS PAAS Core.
Unit Testing With GitHub Copilot
Writing unit tests with the help of GitHub Copilot for the first time.
Stott Security Version 2 So Far
A summary of all new functionality and changes that have been introduced to the Stott Security module so far.
Working Programmatically With List Block Properties
Working with programmatic generation of IList
Adding CORS Management to Optimizely CMS 12
Adding Cross-origin Resource Sharing response headers to the Stott Security Add-on for Optimizely CMS 12.
Adding Block Specific JavaScript and CSS to the body and head of the page
Using the ClientResource management within Optimizely CMS to render JavaScript and CSS resources correctly within the rendered HTML document.
Extending Geta Optimizely Sitemaps to Include Image Sitemaps
Enhancing Geta Optimizely Sitemaps to include Images by overriding the SitemapXmlGenerator.
Making Content Recommendations Easy For Content Editors
Making Content Recommendations easy and consistent for content editors using a custom block.
Build it Once (A proposal for CMS 12 builds)
A proposition for using Razor Class Libraries and componentising Optimizely CMS 12 builds to reduce long term effort and rebuilding.
Opticon London 2022
Information learned at the Opticon London 2022 event hosted by Optimizely.
404 Error on Static Assets Within an Optimizely Plugin
Resolving 404 issues on static files in razor class libraries using the _content/foo.bar/scripts.js path.
Unit Testing Optimizely CMS 12 Dynamic Data Store - Part 2
Introducing a second way to mock and unit test with the Dynamic Data Store in Optimizely CMS 12.
Unit Testing Optimizely CMS 12 Dynamic Data Store - Part 1
Optimizely CMS 12 provides a Dynamic Data Store for custom storing of data, but how do we unit test a repository using the Dynamic Data Store?
A Robots.Txt Handler for Optimizely CMS 12
A new robots.txt handler that has been built for use with Optimizely CMS 12.
Optimizely Search Wildcard Queries and Best Bets
Implementing Wild Card search in Optimizely CMS 11 Search and Navigation.
Secure Headers in .NET 5.0
Removing information leaking headers and adding security headers in a .NET 5.0 web application using IIS.
Setting Up Search & Navigation in .NET 5.0
A brief guide to setting up Optimizely Search and Navigation in the .NET 5.0 world.
Custom Admin Pages in Optimizely 12
In an Optimizely 12 .NET 5.0 world, the GuiPlugIn attribute has been removed, Here I describe how to reproduce this functionality with Menu Providers.
Unit Testing Optimizely CMS 11
A solution for Unit Testing Custom Criterion for visitor groups in Optimizely CMS 11.
Boosting Exact Matches in Elastic Search
A solution for boosting exact matches over partial matches in Elastic Search.
Testing Solutions: Faking Communication with a Third Party Service
Creating a test service to allow testers to maintain and vary shared test data for testing integrations to the HMRC test servers within a payroll application.
How not to use Includes in Lambda Statements
Using Lambda Statements in LINQ to Entities is an easy way to include other entities in entity framework 4, but it comes at a cost.
Why not to use In Memory Collections in LINQ to Entities
Why not to use large in-memory collections in a LINQ to Entities query in entity framework 4.
Selecting Parent and Children in LINQ to Entities
Selecting Parent and Children in LINQ to Entities.
Why I Like BDD
How Behaviour Driven Design (BDD) made my life easier.
Failing to Identify the Minimum Viable Product
Reflections on an epic product rewrite and how we could have reached the market sooner with some better consideration for Minimum Viable Product.