Kim Gunnarsson

Previous posts

1. 3 takeaways from Building Evolutionary Architecture at Øredev 2018 by Patrick Kua

   The concept around evolutionary architecture is to support incremental and guided change as a principle along multiple dimensions. Change is inevitable and a software cycle can be described as a generation.

   • Published on November 19, 2018
   • 3 min read.

2. Back-Forward Cache invalidation and Mobile Safari

   A couple of months ago I worked on an issue stating that users using iOS where getting an unmodified result despite modifying input payload.

   • Published on September 15, 2018
   • 2 min read.

3. Microservices in the frontend – why?

   Micro frontends describes an architectural pattern in which the frontend monolith is decomposed into smaller features fully owned by different cross-functional teams.

   • Published on June 7, 2018
   • 4 min read.

4. MSMQ Queue clearance with Powershell

   When developing in a semi-microservice system utilizing MSMQ as message queue, these queues get filled up by messages from other services from time to time.

   • Published on March 6, 2018
   • 1 min read.

5. Episerver Find UnifiedSearchFor with configurable operator

   When using UnifiedSearch in Episerver Find, I prefer to use the method IClient.UnifiedSearchFor() because it takes care of necessary logic without exposing implementation details, rendering in lower risk of introducing bugs and unwanted behaviour.

   • Published on February 20, 2016
   • 2 min read.

6. Generic EditorDescriptor for custom SelectionFactories

   We are extensive users of the feature of implementing custom selection factories by using the EditorDescriptor-attribute in Episerver. The use-case is quite simple and provides the editor with the ability to single select a value within multiple alternatives using a drop down.

   • Published on December 21, 2015
   • 3 min read.

7. Make Episerver SelectionEditor support HTML-labels

   Somewhere between the releases of Episerver 7.5 and latest, a small but subtle change in how the epi-cms/contentediting/editors/SelectionEditor displays labels in associated drop downs was made.

   • Published on December 21, 2015
   • 1 min read.

8. Compile Node module binaries for AWS Lambda

   A while back I had some issues with AWS Lambda and specific npm-packages. Since I’m new to exploring the architecture, I thought I’d put some time and write the solution down for future reference.

   • Published on December 20, 2015
   • 3 min read.

9. Use Octopus variables in Powershell cmdlets

   Octopus Deploy is a powerful deploy tool, and we use it in our CI-chain alongside TeamCity and GitHub. Amongst things, Octopus enables you do run scripts before, during and after the deployment phases.

   • Published on October 7, 2015
   • 2 min read.

10. IContentMedia and Required fields is not the best idea

    Sometimes when working with MediaData or other inherited IContentMedia in EPiServer you need to add extra fields and properties. If you do – resist the temptation to make them Required.

    • Published on September 8, 2015
    • 2 min read.

11. Working with Categories in EPiServer CMS 8 – a nice 'gotcha'!

    I am currently working with the category functionality in EPiServer and ran into a small hiccup with the new CategoryRepository introduced in EPiServer CMS 8.

    • Published on June 23, 2015
    • 1 min read.

12. Using page properties as dynamic properties

    Sometimes in EPiServer you need properties that inherit values.Dynamic Properties is great for that, but as Anders Hattestad claims (and proposes a solution), it’s a bit tricky working with these in EPiServer CMS 7+ versions.

    • Published on June 23, 2014
    • 1 min read.

13. Debug local sites on multiple devices using Fiddler as proxy

    Here’s a thing I learned the other day and maybe I’m slightly behind the ball on this, but here’s a tip for all you hot shot beard grown developers out there who’s in current need of debugging and checking your local sites on other devices in your local development environment.

    • Published on February 7, 2014
    • 2 min read.

14. Using :first-child:nth-last-child() to apply styles based on number of items

    In a recent project, I stumbled across the need to count items (and determine width based on number of siblings).

    • Published on November 23, 2013
    • 3 min read.