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Allan Thraen

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Co-founder & CTO umage-ai, founder of Code:Art, Agentic Development specialist, Optimizely Expert and OMVP.

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Joined February 2009
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A signed copy of Alan Cooper's The Inmates Are Running the Asylum arrived with a handwritten note: good UX is a power struggle, not a design problem. AI can help with all three stages of building software — most people only ever ask it for one. umage.ai/insights/inmates-st…
Twenty-Six Years Later, the Inmates Still Run the Asylum — They Just Got Better at Hiding It —...

Twenty-Six Years Later, the Inmates Still Run the Asylum — They Just Got Better at Hiding It —...

A signed copy of Alan Cooper's 1999 book arrived with a handwritten note calling good user experience a power struggle. After a career spent fighting that struggle, I wanted to know whether generat...

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Once you start running Claude Code/Codex/Gemini simultaneously across multiple projects, terminal management becomes weirdly painful. I got tired of rebuilding my AI shell workspace every morning, so I built this. Open source: github.com/umage-ai/CodeShel…
GitHub - umage-ai/CodeShellManager: Workspace manager for AI coding shells and agents.

GitHub - umage-ai/CodeShellManager: Workspace manager for AI coding shells and agents.

Workspace manager for AI coding shells and agents. - umage-ai/CodeShellManager

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After years inside Optimizely installations, I noticed I kept rebuilding the same handful of tools on every project. A couple of weeks ago I open-sourced the lot. Editor Power Tools — free, MIT-licensed Optimizely add-on. 🧵
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Built largely with AI agents over about two weeks. 162 unit tests. Eleven language localisations. One NuGet package supporting both Optimizely CMS 12 (.NET 8) and CMS 13 (.NET 10).
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Full write-up: umage.ai/insights/editor-pow… GitHub: github.com/umage-ai/Umage.Op… If you've lived inside a long-running Optimizely site, I'd love to hear which of these you'd reach for first.
Editor Power Tools — Open-Sourcing the Optimizely Toolkit I Kept Rebuilding — umage.ai

Editor Power Tools — Open-Sourcing the Optimizely Toolkit I Kept Rebuilding — umage.ai

Great web experiences come from great content, and great content needs the right tools. Editor Power Tools is a free, open-source Optimizely CMS 12 and 13 add-on with nearly twenty audits, bulk-edit...

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[Series: Headless Site on Optimizely Graph] Exploring interesting ways we can query the content codeart.dk/blog/2024/8/serie…
[Series: Headless Site on Optimizely Graph] Exploring interesting ways we can query the content

[Series: Headless Site on Optimizely Graph] Exploring interesting ways we can query the content

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! No, wait - it's Optimizely Graph! This is part 2 in the blog post series where we explore how a fully functioning headless site can be build in .NET core using...

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New Series: Building a .NET Core headless site on Optimizely Graph and SaaS CMS codeart.dk/blog/2024/6/new-s…
New Series: Building a .NET Core headless site on Optimizely Graph and SaaS CMS

New Series: Building a .NET Core headless site on Optimizely Graph and SaaS CMS

Welcome to this new multi-post series where you can follow along as I indulge in yet another crazy experiment: Can we make our beloved Alloy site run as a headless site on top of Optimizely Graph...

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Blogged: Upgrade To Optimizely CMS 12 Issue: List item fields have become Required codeart.dk/blog/2024/6/upgra…
Upgrade To Optimizely CMS 12 Issue: List item fields have become Required

Upgrade To Optimizely CMS 12 Issue: List item fields have become Required

There are many funny details to be aware of when upgrading from Episerver CMS 11 to Optimizely CMS 12. One of them that might feel a bit confusing is when your list items start to have all required...

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Wow! pure artwork.
Michal Strehovský (@MStrehovsky) profile pictureMichal Strehovský@MStrehovsky2 Jan 2024
For my next trick I'm going to build a 64 MB self-contained game in C# and then shrink it to 1936 bytes in 10 steps. Read all about it in my latest article: migeel.sk/blog/2024/01/02/bu…
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Christmas Countdown: #9 What? ViewModels? Nah, we don't need those codeart.dk/blog/2023/12/chri…
Christmas Countdown: #9 What? ViewModels? Nah, we don't need those

Christmas Countdown: #9 What? ViewModels? Nah, we don't need those

This is another classic - with a big impact! Since recycling is great, why don't we just reuse the content model as a view model? We can just enrich it in the controller, right?

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Christmas Countdown: #10 If it's out there, Google will eventually find it codeart.dk/blog/2023/12/chri…
Christmas Countdown: #10 If it's out there, Google will eventually find it

Christmas Countdown: #10 If it's out there, Google will eventually find it

Have you ever forgotten to protect stuff that wasn't meant to be public? If no, then you are probably a better person than me and most others - both developers and editors alike.

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Christmas Countdown: #11 Dependency Injection is not as easy as it seems codeart.dk/blog/2023/12/chri…
Christmas Countdown: #11 Dependency Injection is not as easy as it seems

Christmas Countdown: #11 Dependency Injection is not as easy as it seems

Dependency Injection is an extremely useful pattern. It has been used with EPiServer CMS for years - and with .NET Core it has truly become the go-to method of coupling your business logic together....

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Christmas Countdown: common Optimizely CMS Pitfalls - #12 Picking the right add-ons codeart.dk/blog/2023/12/chri…
Christmas Countdown: common Optimizely CMS Pitfalls - #12 Picking the right add-ons

Christmas Countdown: common Optimizely CMS Pitfalls - #12 Picking the right add-ons

12 days to Christmas and here is my countdown list of the top 12 common pitfalls I see in Optimizely CMS implementations - along with some tips on how to avoid them. Today we'll take a look at #12 on...

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Blogged: Live on Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8 codeart.dk/blog/2023/12/live…
Live on Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8

Live on Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8

"Better late than never" is a fitting saying here. We've finally gotten around to updating the CodeArt.dk website to Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8!

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Blogged: Optimizely Search & Navigation - Get autocomplete suggestions in right language codeart.dk/blog/2023/6/optim…
Optimizely Search & Navigation - Get autocomplete suggestions in right language

Optimizely Search & Navigation - Get autocomplete suggestions in right language

When you are using Optimizely Search & Navigation (Find) to help you generate autocomplete suggestions server side in a multi-language scenario it can be tricky (and poorly documented) to figure out...

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Blogged and shared: Easy property inheritance in Optimizely CMS codeart.dk/blog/2023/6/prope…
Easy property inheritance in Optimizely CMS

Easy property inheritance in Optimizely CMS

Ever needed a way to inherit property values down through the page hierarchy in Optimizely CMS 12? Now there is an easy way to enable that.

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New blog post on #Optimizely (#Episerver) World: New ways to add content from within TinyMCE in Optimizely CMS 12 gulla.net/en/blog/new-ways-t…

New ways to add content from within TinyMCE in Optimizely CMS 12

Todays update makes it easier to add content directly from TinyMCE!

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New #Optimizely (#Episerver) Release: Optimizely - update 450 /releases/optimizely---update-450/
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New blog post on #Optimizely (#Episerver) World: New Features in DXP Cloud Services world.episerver.com/blogs/el…
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