Links for EPiServer Developers – #1 | Frederik Vig

Links for EPiServer Developers – #1

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Frederik Vig in ASP.NET, EPiServer, Web design

First post in a new series where I’ll post a list of links to useful resources for EPiServer developers. If you have any link suggestions please email me at: frederikvig@hotmail.com.

Security

Web Application Configuration Security Revisited – useful security checklist to go through before launching new sites (or existing)
JavaScript Captcha – good post that discusses the problems with todays approach to securing against spam bots, and that suggest another approach using JavaScript and timing instead.

Deployment

Performance

Boomerang – JavaScript library developed by Yahoo! for measuring the performance of a website from a client (end user’s) point of view. Along with YSlow (also from Yahoo!) and Page Speed this is a very useful tool to have.
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Useful But Overlooked Sets – good post that explains Sets collections (and their changes in .NET 4) and when to use them.
Performance improvements in EPiServer CMS6R2

Tools

NuGet – very useful tool developed by Microsoft and the community for easily adding open source modules to your project. Mark Everard wrote a nice post where he goes through adding Page Type Builder as a NuGet package (anyone up for creating an EPiServer NuGet feed? :))
Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0
Web Deploy 2.0

EPiServer

Dynamic Data Store and new properties on Types – very useful extension method by Anders Hattestad for the dynamic data store. Remapping is something that most get wrong the first time they work with DDS.
Creating classes for PageTypeBuilder in an existing project – just because it is so awesome and alot of people don’t know about it :).
FilteredPageReference v1.1 Released
Starting CMS 6 sites faster after build – very useful tips – especially when working with EPiServer Community
Developing a custom workflow in EPiServer – nice 4 part series on how to develop workflows for EPiServer

Code

5 Helpful DateTime Extension Methods

Database

The unnecessary evil of the shared development database

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

ASP.NET and HTML5 Local Storage – HTML local storage is one of the coolest new features of HTML 5. Here you’ll get a nice introduction and how to use it in your ASP.NET application.
Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications – When you start using jQuery and JavaScript in larger scale your code can become very messy after a while. This post has some nice pointers on structuring your code, testing and other goodies.