May 15, 2022

Win a Kontent Rocks T-Shirt

I have a new goal to reach 100+ YouTube subscribers for my #KontentRocks podcast (the show where I talk about all things Kontent by Kentico). For that reason I'm giving away some newly branded shirts to generate some buzz

Dec 31, 2021

2021 Year in Review

Another year has passed us all by as we sit here on New Year’s Eve. Since today is technically a holiday day off for us, and I’m dead tired from the crazy workout this morning, I found a little inspiration to write up a ‘year in review’ blog post. It’s a nice way to reflect on all the things that were accomplished this year. Global pandemic aside, 2021 was a busy and productive year.

Oct 10, 2021

Introducing the Kontent Rocks Podcast

It's the end of an era for my old Kentico Rocks podcast and the beginning of a new era for my podcast going forward. That's right, I have decided to rename, rebrand, and re-focus my podcasting topics in 2021. Kontent Rocks will talk about all things Kontent by Kentico in the .NET, Azure, and JAMStack world.

Aug 29, 2021

How to Migrate from .NET MVC 5 to .NET Core for Kentico Xperience

.NET Core and .NET 5 have been available for some time now and .NET 6 will be released any month now, but the majority of existing Kentico MVC sites previous to version 13 were created in .NET MVC 5.

Jul 01, 2021

How I Pitch Headless CMS to My Clients

Throughout the years I have spent a lot of time conversing with CTOs, CIOs, CMOs, and Directors, helping them understand the choices that they have with implementing their next major web initiative or rebranding. They often come to the table with questions on how to best build their website in an efficient and cost-effective way, maximizing their ROI.

May 31, 2021

Making Azure Cognitive Search Work Better with Kentico Xperience

Almost nothing is more frustrating than when a developer or marketer receives feedback that their website search experience is broken. Hearing the words “When I search for this term, the wrong results are returned, or [worse yet] no results are returned at all”. I know it sure pains me to hear this. Ultimately there are lots of possibilities that could cause a faulty search. Some issues tend to be more severe, but some issues also tend to be just small nuances. It can come down to how content is written, how content is indexed, and/or how calling the search service is performed through code. This article contains a few tips and tricks to make the native integration between Kentico Xperience and Azure Cognitive Search work better than the out of the box configuration. Following one or more them may finally help you hear “Wow, search is working great on the site”.

Apr 24, 2021

How to Use Collections in Kontent

Kentico Kontent includes a fantastic feature for organizing and producing a content model / content inventory. This feature is called Collections in Kontent. It allows departments and teams to manage their content in logical groups, campaigns, global regions, enterprise business units, or any other way you can think of. Let's take a look a how to use Collections in Kontent.

Mar 06, 2021

25 Reasons to Move to Kentico Xperience MVC - Part 3

The last set of benefits of moving to Kentico Xperience MVC is going to get technical. I'm finishing the list with the bigger picture technical reasons as to why MVC makes a ton of sense for Kentico Xperience over the legacy Portal Engine. Most of these should be somewhat clear and not take too much explanation.

Mar 03, 2021

25 Reasons to Move to Kentico Xperience MVC - Part 2

The next set of benefits of moving to Kentico Xperience MVC is focusing on the Marketing people in the conversation. The points in this post illustrate and identify the reasons why this again, is not just a technical conversation. All Marketers should be aware that the paradigm shifts in Kentico Xperience MVC. Gone is the Page Menu Item page type with full WYSIWYG textboxes and Design tab of a page that was dangerous in the wrong hands. Now Marketers need to think intelligently about their Content Model and how they are going to working with structured content in MVC.