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Aside from coding, I try to keep up with my blog. You can find it at davidboland.site
https://davidboland.site/blog/tinymce-templates-package-in-episerver
Since my last post about Episerver TinyMCE default templates, I have worked on several projects that could benefit from them. I decided to create a NuGet package of some generic templates that I think most projects could benefit from.
Gitalk_tinymce-templates-package-in-episerver
https://davidboland.site/blog/organize-your-graphql-calls-with-fragments
In this post, I wanted to show how to clean up your GraphQL calls with fragments. This will make for a cleaner, more reusable code base.
https://davidboland.site/chess/chicago-chess-center-5th-jane-addam-day-2
Review of the games from the second day of the 5th Jane Addams tournament in Chicago.
Gitalk_chicago-chess-center-5th-jane-addam-day-2
https://davidboland.site/blog/machine-learning-with-episerver-ascend
For this year's Episerver Ascend conference, I gave a talk on machine learning. I wanted to share some info about the talk. I Cover Episerver Machine Learning tools like Perform, Profile Store, Reach, and Insights. Also Microsoft ML tools.
Gitalk_machine-learning-with-episerver-ascend
https://davidboland.site/blog/how-to-implement-a-queue-in-c
An overview of how to implement a queue in C#. Covering what is a queue data structure, when it should be used, and the basic operations.
Gitalk_how-to-implement-a-queue-in-c
https://davidboland.site/blog/deployment-reliability-on-episerver
Are you having issues with your Episerver website? Experiencing bugs, slow development cycles, long deployment interruptions? Here's how to improve the reliability and confidence in your Episerver website with automated deployments via Azure DevOps.
Gitalk_deployment-reliability-on-episerver
https://davidboland.site/blog/dynamic-content-types-with-gatsby--contentful
In this post, we will go over how we leverage Gatsby and Contentful to allow us to use dynamic content types across our site pages.
Gitalk_dynamic-content-types-with-gatsby--contentful
https://davidboland.site/economics/economics-society-part-one
I went through the first three lessons of Paul Krugman Teaches Economics and Society on Masterclass. Here I give a brief summary and review of what I learned so far.
Gitalk_economics-society-part-one
https://davidboland.site/blog/episerver-cache-management
Episerver website running slow? Memory usage too high? Long warmup times? Need to restart your site often? Here's the different types of cache and how to leverage them to speed up your website in Azure or on Episerver DXC.
https://davidboland.site/blog/encrypted-contact-form-in-vue
I have always been a big believer in digital privacy. I try to take extra steps to secure my personal data whenever necessary. I implemented a contact us form to allow users to encrypt their message they submit it on a site.
Gitalk_encrypted-contact-form-in-vue
https://davidboland.site/blog/changing-episerver-propertylist-modal-size
In this post I will discuss updating the size of the Episerver PropertyList modal in the editor view with CSS to improve the editor experience.
Gitalk_changing-episerver-propertylist-modal-size
https://davidboland.site/blog/modeling-custom-ctas-for-contentful-web-pages
Lots of Contentful website examples contain models for everything you would expect from a website. Standard pages, articles, authors, SEO, images, content blocks, etc. However, there is one subtle aspect that can get tricky, CTAs.
Gitalk_modeling-custom-ctas-for-contentful-web-pages
A client came to us needing a recommendation for a headless CMS to run multiple portal applications. With the requirement that we provide a headless option, and the knowledge that the editors love Episerver's features, it took us all of two seconds to come up with Episerver's Content Delivery API as a solution.
Gitalk_how-we-built-multiple-spas-with-on-page-editing-using-episerver-headless
https://davidboland.site/blog/content-modeling-best-practices-in-contentful
To optimize your use of Contentful, it's important to follow best practices when creating your content models. In this blog post, we will explore five best practices that will help you create a well-structured and easy-to-manage content model in Contentful.
https://davidboland.site/blog/contentful-most-frequently-asked-questions
There are many general questions that get asked over and over regarding Contentful. Since they keep getting asked, I figure the answers aren't the easiest to find online. This post is an effort to get those answers out there.
https://davidboland.site/chess/chicago-chess-center-5th-jane-addam-day-1
A recap of my first tournament back into competitive play. This post will be about the first day of a two day event.
Gitalk_chicago-chess-center-5th-jane-addam-day-1
https://davidboland.site/blog/creating-cms-editor-guides
At Nansen, creating editor documentation is part of our development process. I wanted to share how we implement our editor guides, and hoping to hear from others how they implement theirs.
Gitalk_creating-cms-editor-guides
https://davidboland.site/projects/cyberpunk-theme
I am working on adding a new theme in addition to dark mode, based on the new game Cyberpunk 2077. I saw some cool buttons and styles shared online. So I decided to create a storybook based on those themes and I am working on incorporating them into my site.
Gitalk_cyberpunk-theme
https://davidboland.site/blog/securing-episerver-website-with-azure-ad
It's no secret that security is vital all websites. If you use Azure Active Directory to login to organization infrastructure already, why not use it to secure your website? Here's how:
https://davidboland.site/blog/build-a-simple-pwa-with-episerver
PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) help improve a site's Reliability, Speed, and Engagement. At this year's Episerver Ascend, we went into detail about all the benefits of PWAs. And we walked through some tools and techniques for integrating them into your site.
Gitalk_build-a-simple-pwa-with-episerver
https://davidboland.site/blog/font-awesome-icon-picker-for-episerver
A custom episerver widget might seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Build an icon picker property together with me and see how easy it is!
Gitalk_font-awesome-icon-picker-for-episerver
https://davidboland.site/blog/episerver-cache-management
Episerver website running slow? Memory usage too high? Long warmup times? Need to restart your site often? Here's the different types of cache and how to leverage them to speed up your website in Azure or on Episerver DXC.
Gitalk_episerver-cache-management
https://davidboland.site/projects/blog-in-piranha-cms
I created this site to act as a space to share my blog posts and projects. You can find more detailed information about it here.
Gitalk_blog-in-piranha-cms
https://davidboland.site/blog/organize-your-graphql-calls-with-fragments
In this post, I wanted to show how to clean up your GraphQL calls with fragments. This will make for a cleaner, more reusable code base.
Gitalk_organize-your-graphql-calls-with-fragments
https://davidboland.site/blog/creating-an-episerver-editor-documentation-view
In this post, I will be describing how to add a custom editor view in Episerver that will be used to render documentation. Our example will be pulling the documentation from Github.
Gitalk_creating-an-episerver-editor-documentation-view
https://davidboland.site/blog/track-users-in-store-episerver-insights
Track user's behavior using Bluetooth beacons and Episerver Profile Store to bridge the gap between the online and in-store experience
Gitalk_track-users-in-store-episerver-insights
https://davidboland.site/blog/rendering-gatsby-images-from-contentful-rich-text
Gatsby is great at rendering images. To do this, you need to leverage the Gatsby Image Plugin. For most of the images on the site, that is no problem. For images in Rich Text, it's not so simple.
Gitalk_rendering-gatsby-images-from-contentful-rich-text
https://davidboland.site/chess/new-years-resolutions
2022 was a year of chess for me. I want to continue that into 2023, but in a more structured way. I figured the best way to start is with goals.
Gitalk_new-years-resolutions
https://davidboland.site/blog/image-gallery-powered-by-contentful
In this post, we will cover one of our favorite features in Contentful, the Images API. We will go over some of it's coolest features, and how we leveraged it to build a custom image gallery.
Gitalk_image-gallery-powered-by-contentful
https://davidboland.site/blog/what-is-headless-cms
Headless content management systems (CMS) allow digital content to be accessed and edited from anywhere without being tied to a website.
Gitalk_what-is-headless-cms
https://davidboland.site/blog/the-dxp-difference-examples-of-websites-built-with-optimizely
Following the merger of Optimizely and Episerver, we’ve written about how Optimizely stacks up against its competitors, what it unveiled at its latest big customer event, and more. But the best argument for the impact that Optimizely can have on brands looking to deliver great customer experiences is looking at Optimizely-powered websites themselves.
Gitalk_the-dxp-difference-examples-of-websites-built-with-optimizely
https://davidboland.site/chess/my-history-with-chess
A brief introduction to my history with chess, as well as a bit of a preview of where I hope to go with this blog.
Gitalk_my-history-with-chess
https://davidboland.site/blog/contentful-most-frequently-asked-questions
There are many general questions that get asked over and over regarding Contentful. Since they keep getting asked, I figure the answers aren't the easiest to find online. This post is an effort to get those answers out there.
Gitalk_contentful-most-frequently-asked-questions
https://davidboland.site/blog/content-modeling-best-practices-in-contentful
To optimize your use of Contentful, it's important to follow best practices when creating your content models. In this blog post, we will explore five best practices that will help you create a well-structured and easy-to-manage content model in Contentful.
Gitalk_content-modeling-best-practices-in-contentful
https://davidboland.site/blog/signing-you-work-as-a-developer
The concept of signing applies to more than messaging. Even more to encryption itself. I wanted to give some examples of how you could start signing your work as a developer.
Gitalk_signing-you-work-as-a-developer
https://davidboland.site/projects/pixzle
Pixzle was a fun project that I was glad to be able to work on with friends. While it did not have much success in the App Store, it was definitely something we are proud of.
Gitalk_pixzle
https://davidboland.site/blog/securing-episerver-website-with-azure-ad
It's no secret that security is vital all websites. If you use Azure Active Directory to login to organization infrastructure already, why not use it to secure your website? Here's how:
Gitalk_securing-episerver-website-with-azure-ad
https://davidboland.site/economics/learning-algorithmic-game-theory
I recently found myself with more time to do research. I wanted to go back to my first passion, Economics. I am going to be studying its crossover with Computer Science, and document my experience.
Gitalk_learning-algorithmic-game-theory
https://davidboland.site/blog/utilizing-episerver-commerce-in-a-mobile-application
Episerver provides an amazing framework for transactional e-commerce websites, but that's not the only way you can use it. We created a mobile application for our client which allowed them to make in-person sales. Here is a bit about what we did and why.
Gitalk_utilizing-episerver-commerce-in-a-mobile-application
https://davidboland.site/blog/create-episerver-tinymce-default-templates
In this post, I will be describing how to add custom templates to your Episerver TinyMCE. Using templates can improve the content entry experience for your editors by minimizing the amount of editing that needs to be done.
Gitalk_create-episerver-tinymce-default-templates
https://davidboland.site/projects/digital-signatures-archive
I built an archive for my digital signatures. For more information, like how I built it and why, can be found here.
Gitalk_digital-signatures-archive
https://davidboland.site/blog/deployment-reliability-on-episerver
Are you having issues with your Episerver website? Experiencing bugs, slow development cycles, long deployment interruptions? Here's how to improve the reliability and confidence in your Episerver website with automated deployments via Azure DevOps.
https://davidboland.site/blog/upgrading-to-optimizely-content-cloud-cms-12-offers-key-first-mover
Continuing to streamline and evolve its many digital innovation products, Optimizely has made a major change to its cornerstone content management system (CMS), inviting customers to take a leap into the future.
Gitalk_upgrading-to-optimizely-content-cloud-cms-12-offers-key-first-mover
https://davidboland.site/blog/episerver-content-icons-in-2-minutes
Have tons of Episerver content? Can't easily distinguish content types from eachother in the page tree? Here's how to leverage some episerver-provided icons that look great!
Gitalk_episerver-content-icons-in-2-minutes
https://davidboland.site/blog/content-modeling-in-contentful
Content modeling can be a tricky thing. If done incorrectly, it can cause all kinds of headaches for editors. And trust me when I say going back to update the structure of your content after your project is live is worse. It's something you want to get right the first time.
Gitalk_content-modeling-in-contentful
In this blog post, we'll introduce you to Optimizely CMS, explain how it works, and explore the benefits of using it for your website.
Gitalk_an-introduction-to-optimizely-cms-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-why-you-should
https://davidboland.site/blog/how-to-implement-a-stack-in-c
I wanted to give a quick overview of how to implement stacks in C#. I will give some general info about them, then get into the actual code.
Gitalk_how-to-implement-a-stack-in-c
https://davidboland.site/projects/picwords
Picwords was a PEC system which allowed you to create custom image and word associations that assisted individuals with disabilities
Gitalk_picwords
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