Even Umbraco agree: XSLT is not an interface building tool
It seems that Umbraco are finally dropping XSLT on the next release of their CMS. About time too – it’s been a while since you could really justify using it to build web interfaces.
Posted on Friday, November 18th, 2011
EPiServer CMS anti-patterns: common mistakes in development projects
EPiServer is a great CMS but like all platforms it has a number of traps for the unwary and inexperienced.
Posted on Friday, September 9th, 2011
Estimation pitfalls: Why software development estimates are so difficult
Estimates are, in essence, a kind of crystal ball gazing. You are making a series of educated guesses about how long something will take whilst often being hampered by imperfect understanding and squeezed by commercial pressures.
Posted on Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
How to write useful .NET and C# coding standards
Coding standards are one of those documents that managers often feel obliged to produce, so they are frequently written without any clear sense of purpose. A number of different motives can inspire coding standards – not all of them very positive.
Posted on Friday, October 15th, 2010
Using Google Mini as an EPiServer search solution
Google Mini can provide a low-cost alternative to Lucene-based searching in EPiServer. Although its text-based search is simple and powerful, the devil, as ever, is in the detail.
Posted on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Using the WCF Authentication Service without cookies
How to use web services that are secured with the WCF Authentication Service in clients that don’t support cookies.
Posted on Monday, July 12th, 2010
Converting EPiServer 6 to use claims-based authentication with WIF
Converting an EPiServer site to become claims-aware is straightforward enough – the complications come when you try to use the editor and administration interfaces.
Posted on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Creating a security token service website using WIF in Visual Studio
This walkthough explains how to create a test claims issuer in Visual Studio 2008 using the Windows Identity Foundation SDK.
Posted on Thursday, May 13th, 2010