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Checking a accessibility for a page with Wave

by: Allan Thræn

If you aren’t already aware, the great people at WebAIM has provided a neat service called Wave that can check a webpage for accessibility issues and give you a chance to correct them. Frederik Vig used it as part of a cool test gadget for the... [ Read full article ]

22 July 2010  5 Comments

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Auto-tagging Content with OpenCalais

by: Allan Thræn

One of my big passions has always been various forms of intelligent textual analysis – probably a remnant of my search-engine days. Anyway – Over the last couple of years I’ve done a bunch of different prototypes which have it in common that they... [ Read full article ]

22 June 2010  1 Comments

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Codemania Partner Summit 2010

by: Allan Thræn

At last weeks partner summit I once again had the pleasure and honor of entertaining the übber-geeks for a while together with Magnus “EPiServer God” Stråle. If you missed this great event, you can find the video here . As promised, I’ll share wha... [ Read full article ]

11 June 2010  1 Comments

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PDF Snapshot

by: Allan Thræn

A quite common request I have heard a number of times is the need to take a snapshot of a web site and store it securely, in order to in the future be able to proof what was stated on the site at a given date. I know a number of EPiServer customer... [ Read full article ]

28 January 2010  3 Comments

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Virtual Roles and Visitor Segmentation

by: Allan Thræn

I just extended a little on the Virtual Roles Sample Pack project on Codeplex after Joe came to me with a challenge: “I want to push a personalized message on my web site to everyone who is an EPiServer Certified Developer and who have visited pag... [ Read full article ]

15 January 2010  2 Comments

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Building a Twitter Workflow

by: Allan Thræn

For a long time I’ve wanted to play more with Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) in conjunction with EPiServer, and today I finally did  it. And luckily it turned out to be a lot less scary than I had imagined. First of all, I decided to check out ... [ Read full article ]

06 January 2010  3 Comments

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CMS 6: DropDownList Property Type

by: Allan Thræn

Finally, I get to make an old dream of mine (and a request I’ve heard 100000 times) come true – A DropDownList property type where you can customize the options in Admin mode. Sure, we’ve had lists before as property types (Like ‘Dynamic List’)– b... [ Read full article ]

20 October 2009  3 Comments

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Using OpenID With EPiServer CMS

by: Allan Thræn

OpenID is an awesome idea. Imagine, having a single sign-on from whatever provider you choose, and using that to log in to all your favorite websites. Many sites already allows you to use them as OpenID providers and many more will support /consum... [ Read full article ]

03 September 2009  4 Comments

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I am virtually in the role, dude

by: Allan Thræn

UPDATE 2009-11-02: This code for this project has now been moved to CodePlex . Sometimes I wonder if anyone else knows that special feeling. The feeling you have when fingers just start itching and you know you just have to get that great idea out... [ Read full article ]

03 September 2009  4 Comments

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Finding the right Process ID to debug

by: Allan Thræn

For some reason my vista loves to have a bunch of  webserver worker processes (w3wp.exe) running all the time, which can make it quite tricky to determine which you want to attach to, when you use Visual Studio to debug your IIS EPiServer site. So... [ Read full article ]

02 September 2009  3 Comments

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Non-cached, Cross PageType, Generic Page Properties

by: Allan Thræn

There are many different ways of storing business data in EPiServer CMS. And lots of opinions on them as well. David Hunt has made an excellent blog post about some of the approaches. On top of those approaches there are also others – like using t... [ Read full article ]

04 August 2009  6 Comments

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Alternate WYSIWYG Editor: Ephox EditLive!

by: Allan Thræn

After seeing a rather interesting demo of Ephox’s EditLive editor I decided to try it out for a bit. Having a natural .NET skepticism to all things java, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it actually was to work with from a .NET environment. ... [ Read full article ]

30 July 2009  4 Comments

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Referrer-Search Dynamic Content

by: Allan Thræn

As many of you may know, a Dynamic Content Element a day keeps the static web sites away :-)  Here’s another I just did today: Referrer-Search. Once again I find myself in personalization mode. This idea is old. In fact I remember a former company... [ Read full article ]

29 July 2009  0 Comments

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Role Based Contents

by: Allan Thræn

UPDATE 2009-11-02: This code for this project has now been moved to CodePlex .   Personalization is a thing that has been a lot on my mind lately. Everybody is talking about it – many people are doing it. I feel an in-depth blog post about this... [ Read full article ]

28 July 2009  0 Comments

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Revisited: Northwind Page Provider

by: Allan Thræn

Back in august of last year I published a post with a small coding example on how to make a Page Provider for the classic Northwind Database. Since it has turned out to be quite popular as a demo for Page Providers (I guess geeks get nostalgic ove... [ Read full article ]

27 April 2009  1 Comments

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EPiServer CMS Intellisense Comments

by: Allan Thræn

When we build EPiServer CMS we automatically produce a bunch of xml files with code comments (generated from Visual Studio). They are used as a foundation for the SDK texts. But you can also have them shown directly in your Visual Studio... [ Read full article ]

01 April 2009  4 Comments

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Codemania: Geeky PageProviders

by: Allan Thræn

At EPiServer Day 2009 I had the pleasure of entertaining a crowded room filled with the best developer brains in the community of developers working with EPiServer CMS. As promissed, I will use a couple of blog posts on providing the code we showe... [ Read full article ]

16 March 2009  3 Comments

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Output PageData as JSON

by: Allan Thræn

JSON has gained a lot of popularity recently – and with good reason, in my opinion. It’s fairly easy to work with, a lot more compact than XML and quite flexible. Especially javascript frameworks like JQuery has helped JSON win ground – and... [ Read full article ]

16 March 2009  1 Comments

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Even easier single assembly modules

by: Allan Thræn

During the last year, both Dan and Johan has made some great posts showing how to fit an entire module into a single .dll file. I’ve been very fascinated by this approach. It’s so clean and nice to just be able to drop a single assembly in the bin... [ Read full article ]

25 February 2009  9 Comments

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Turn your User Controls into Dynamic Content

by: Allan Thræn

UPDATE 2009-11-02: This code for this project has now been moved to CodePlex . I have just made a new version of the Dynamic Content Plugin introduced here and expanded here . This time I introduced the ability to turn your existing User Controls... [ Read full article ]

09 February 2009  4 Comments

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Insert Flash elements in the Editor as Dynamic Content

by: Allan Thræn

Here’s just a quick little piece of Dynamic Content I threw together yesterday together with a partner. It’s for when you want editors to be able to insert flash elements directly in XHTML fields. A bit like inserting images – except that instead ... [ Read full article ]

30 January 2009  7 Comments

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Automatically Load Property Types as Dynamic Content

by: Allan Thræn

Dynamic Content is cool! Really cool. However, even good things can always get better. Back in october last year I wrote about how to automatically register dynamic content by attaching an attribute (like all other plugins in EPiServer)... [ Read full article ]

26 January 2009  0 Comments

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Drag & Drop Sorting of Child Pages

by: Allan Thræn

Yet another small utility inspired by a customer. An editor came up to me and complained about the annoyance of setting sort-indexes manually to change the sort order or pages. Naturally I suggested the excellent EPiCode project ManageChildren - b... [ Read full article ]

15 October 2008  9 Comments

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Allan Thræn

About me

I am a product manager @ EPiServer, with a passion for the more geeky side of things. My technical interests are typically focused around user problems, user experience,  search, information management, artificial intelligence and  personalization

On top of this blog I have the blog Allan On Technology and I often crosspost.

DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated in the posts, this blog expresses my personal opinions, experiments and views, not necessarilly the views of EPiServer AB.

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