Brad McDavid
Product ManagerAs WSOL’s Product Manager, Brad works to keep WSOL’s team up to date with the ever-changing technology landscape and define the standards to which we develop and build websites. In addition to developing simple and extensible code libraries which help our team members build great websites using various CMS platforms, he works to create software packages such as WSOL’s HubSpot-EPiServer Connector that are available even to customers who don’t utilize WSOL’s website design and development services.
Outside of work, Brad is a home theater hobbyist who enjoys tinkering with the latest gadgets and software. He also dabbles in brewing his own beer and enjoys keeping up with his favorite TV shows, which include The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Supernatural.
Recent Articles
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4/6/2018
Creating Episerver NuGet Packages
Episerver has a great developer community with excellent, helpful folks. Many of these wonderful people also author community NuGet packages for Episerver which provide multiple functionalities. In this post, we're going to discuss some components of how to make a NuGet package. -
We explore some of the upcoming Vulcan changes that integrate more seamlessly with Episerver 11.
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10/24/2017
Apache's Lucene Search At A Glance
Search is a critical component of a website that can go beyond a simple search box with results. Today, we look at Apache's free and open sourced Lucene search. -
With a Migrations/Configuration.cs file in place, the package manager console command add-migration can be used to update changes to the user model in Episerver
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Episerver community provide developers with great starter sites on GitHub or the Episerver CMS Visual Studio Extension, but for flexible Razor layouts,
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We offer detailed instructions for how to set up Vulcan search in Episerver, which will index Episerver CMS content to Elasticsearch.
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We take a look at the search features that the Vulcan 2.0 provides for Episerver developers.
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We look at the benefits of validation in Episerver and how developers can use it to save themselves and content editors a lot of headaches.
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We look at how Episerver allows developers to customize the editing interface and streamline the process of content creation.
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We offer a guide for developers who want to implement the Episerver Forms add-on, which provides a great deal of flexibility and customization for site owners.
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We offer a step by step description of how to set up projects in Visual Studio Online for teams using continuous deployments of code.
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We look at how WSOL handles version control and deployment when working on a website design and development project.
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Learn about the features that the HubSpot-EPiServer Connector provides to integrate your MAP and CMS and create personalized content.
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EPiServer's scheduled jobs provide website owners and developers with robust, customizable functionality to complete automated tasks.
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In the final installment of our blog series on content rendering, we discuss some additional features of WSOL's Content Maker code: menus, language glossaries, and global and folder settings.