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Blog entries posted during 2008

Nov
17

EPiCode Awards

Posted by: Dan Matthews

EPiServer Norway are associated with an EPiServer community project called EPiCode which had its annual awards on the 12th of November as part of the Christmas Tech Forum. I was really pleased to see the Module of the Year award went to my pals over... [Read full article]

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Nov
11

EPiServer vs. Open Source

Posted by: Dan Matthews

Introduction Interakting use both Open Source and proprietary products to deliver solutions for many companies. We always try to select the best tool for the job, and when it comes to Content Management it is no different. We have a range of tools... [Read full article]

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Jun
23

NickServ and HydraIRC

Posted by: Dan Matthews

I've been hanging out on the #epicode IRC channel for the past few months, and over time I've played with several IRC clients such as XChat, Mibbit (for the Web) and HydraIRC. One of the things that you do most often on IRC is /msg peop [Read full article]

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Jun
10

New module on EPiCode

Posted by: Dan Matthews

At the EPiServer Partner Summit I was chatting over dinner to Andy Brodie of Networked Planet. He was remarking that it would be nice within EPiServer to have the capability to show site thumbnails when you hovered over hyperlinks. This intrigued me... [Read full article]

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May
20

Google Translate and .NET

Posted by: Dan Matthews

Google have released a lovely little API for their Google Translate service. It uses a RESTful interface and returns a JSON object in the HTTP Response. The usual way to use this would be AJAX-style in client side JavaScript. This might not always... [Read full article]

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Apr
14

Interakting - Sneak Peek

Posted by: Dan Matthews

The company I work for, Business & Decision, is launching a new brand for their global digital agency function; "Interakting". Apparently "Business & Decision" works better as a brand in their other areas (Business Intelligence, Customer... [Read full article]

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Apr
04

Partner Summit '08

Posted by: Dan Matthews

My flight is booked and I'm looking forward to the summit! The agenda looks packed and I'm especially interested to see what is put on the developer second day 'stream'. At the moment it's just TBA... although there's plenty of other tasty tidbits... [Read full article]

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Apr
02

VPP Initializer not firing properly

Posted by: Dan Matthews

Whilst building the CloudCuckoo module, I used a neat trick to register my custom VPP on-the-fly by using an attribute flag to mark it as an EPiServer plugin. This would cause EPiServer to find it and intialise it when I first hit the EPiServer... [Read full article]

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Apr
02

CloudCuckoo for v5 SP1

Posted by: Dan Matthews

I've recompiled the CloudCuckoo binary against EPiServer v5 SP1 to save you having to recompile the project yourself. (it was originally built against vanilla v5) Enjoy! Get CloudCuckoo here [Read full article]

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Mar
25

EPiCloud > CloudCuckoo > Released!

Posted by: Dan Matthews

The EPiCloud module that I've been working on for a while is finally ready for release! Due to the EPiServer preferred module naming policy (no EPi.... please! ) we had a few thoughts around the office here and one of my colleagues, Alan Bartlett,... [Read full article]

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Mar
20

EPiServer when disconnected from domain controller

Posted by: Dan Matthews

I've just spent the last few days in a Commerce Server 2007 training course, which was surprisingly interesting. One of the things that leapt out at me was that there are a couple of partners who have worked with Commerce Server 2002 and EPiServer... [Read full article]

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Mar
12

EPiCloud floats into view

Posted by: Dan Matthews

I've updated the B&D EPiLabs site with an updated version of the EPiCloud module. I've added the following features: The top tags are now placed in a META tag and also as a tooltip on the tag entry (this is for SEO) When a new tag is added... [Read full article]

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Mar
10

Updating properties in code without a republish

Posted by: Dan Matthews

While working on my EPiCloud module I came across a snag where I wanted to update page properties (definitions) from code without republishing the page. The page property I'm updating is going to change frequently and I didn't fancy having pages of... [Read full article]

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Mar
07

Business and Decision EPiLabs

Posted by: Dan Matthews

We've been doing some R&D on funky plugins for EPiServer and decided that we'd show you guys what we're up to. Have a look at our new EPiServer labs site: B&D EPiServer Labs Our tag cloud module 'EPiCloud' is the first module I've put on there. (At... [Read full article]

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About

Dan Matthews

Dan Matthews

I am currently working as Head of Production at the UK office of Interakting, the pan-european web agency and part of the Business & Decision group. My main interest is in Content Management systems, and finding innovative ways to give customers the solution that best fits their business processes. Over 15 years of programming experience has shown me that you don't solve problems by simply throwing the best new technology at it! Outside of work, I am mostly trying to make time be a Dad to my son and a husband to a very busy mum. Apart from that, I love playing soccer and watching sport - especially anything involving England and South Africa.

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