Building a Kentico E-Commerce Chat Bot - Part 3
This is the third part of my blog post series on Building a Kentico E-Commerce Chat Bot. Make sure that you have read the part 1 and part 2 of the series before continuing. The goal of this post is to...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at GLSEC 2017
Every year SoftwareGR puts on the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, known as GLSEC. The conference is dedicated to building and enhancing the software industry in the West Michigan region....
View Article2017 Kentico Roadshow Roundup
I was lucky enough to attend both the Chicago and Boston editions of the 2017 Kentico Roadshow this past week. For those of you that might not have attended, or don't know too much about it, the event...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at Chicago Coder Conference
The Chicago Coder Conference (CCC) is entering its fourth year of supporting and promoting the Chicagoland area’s technology community. The conference, which runs June 26th through June 27th 2017,...
View ArticleBuilding a Kentico E-Commerce Chat Bot - Part 4
This is part 4 of my blog post series, Building a Kentico E-commerce Chat Bot. Today we will review the Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) aspect of the solution. During the review we...
View ArticleBuilding a Kentico E-Commerce Chat Bot - Part 5
This is the final post in my blog post series, Building a Kentico E-Commerce Chat Bot. At long last I have finally had time to do a little code refactoring, wrap up the solution into a nice GitHub...
View ArticleKentico Cloud Delivery .Net SDK Quick Tip: Synchronous Call
While working on a few different Kentico Cloud based projects, I ran into a situation that was a real head scratcher when working with the Delivery .Net SDK. I had done the research, installed the...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at Little Rock Tech Fest
I'm excited to announce that my next speaking gig will be at Little Rock Tech Fest 2017. Little Rock Tech Fest is an annual developer conference featuring popular web, mobile, database, devops and...
View ArticleKentico 10 Upgrade Quick Tip: Users, Contacts, Subscribers, Oh My!
By now most of you should know that Kentico 10 was released about 10 months ago. What you might not know is that as part of the 10.0 release, under the hood, Kentico re-engineered the major...
View ArticleA Google Chrome Extension for Utilizing Kentico Cloud Content in the Browser
This past week I was able to attend the Kentico Roadshow conference in Chicago. I attended a few different sessions, but the morning session by [A]'s founder Cruce Saunders and afternoon session by Get...
View Article11 Reasons to Feel Good About Upgrading to Kentico 11
If you or your company uses Kentico to power your website, chances are you’ve seen the marketing that Kentico 11 will be released in a mere 11 days from now, on December 11th 2017. Yes, that’s a lot of...
View ArticleKentico MVC Quick Tip - Fix Broken Insert Link Button
Last week, a developer that I work with here at BizStream came to me seeking some quick help on one of our Kentico MVC projects. When he showed me the issue, I was initially quite surprised because the...
View ArticleWhy Kentico.Glimpse is a Must Have Tool for Kentico MVC Developers
Recently I was tasked with troubleshooting a problem with one of our Kentico MVC projects that we were working on. The issue was that, at a high load, the performance of the front end MVC live site was...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at Orlando Code Camp 2018
I'm happy to announce that I have been selected to speak at the 13th Annual Orlando Code Camp on March 17th, 2018 at Seminole State College. The code camp is a free, one day learning event for...
View Article.Net Core in Kentico MVC?
Lately I have been asked by quite a few developers, quite a few times, if it is possible to use .Net Core 2.0 with Kentico? This is especially true with developers who are going down the path of using...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at Code PaLOUsa 2018
One week from today (March 29th, 2018) I will once again be speaking at one of my favorite conferences of the year, Code PaLOUsa. CPL is a multi-day software development conference, located in...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at GLSEC 2018
SoftwareGR is once again hosting its annual software conference, the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, known as GLSEC. Each year the conference is dedicated to building and enhancing the...
View ArticleHandle 3rd Party Analytics Scripts in a GDPR World with Kentico EMS
With the May 25th 2018 GDPR deadline looming it seems like every third email in my inbox is about either a privacy policy change, or a client asking for information about how to handle GDPR on their...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at the next CDNUG
In about two weeks (May 31st, 2018) I will be presenting at the next Chicago .Net Users Group meetup in Downers Grove IL. I'm looking forward to my first time attending and speaking at this group's...
View ArticleKentico 12 Beta 2: Chasing the Raptor
In case you were not aware, the second beta release of Kentico Raptor dropped last week ("Raptor" is the code name for the Kentico 12.0 beta releases). I have been keeping my eye on the first two...
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