DevNet Author Profile

Kentico 10 Is Here

Karol Jarkovsky — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:00:00 GMT

The end of year 2016 marks the next chapter in Kentico’s history. Just a couple of weeks ago at our annual Kentico 404 conference, we announced our brand new Kentico Cloud offering—a cloud-first headless CMS and customer engagement platform. We are very proud and excited about what is ahead for Kentico and the new Kentico Cloud. But, there is another important product release scheduled for this month—Kentico 10 is out! An expansion of MVC and Continuous Integration represents just the tip of the iceberg. Let me tell you what it’s all about.

Announcing Kentico 9

Karol Jarkovsky — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:00:00 GMT

Today, I’m happy to introduce a completely new version of Kentico. This major Kentico release is designed to help marketers and developers deploy their changes quickly and reliably, provide tools to personalize content for unique customer experiences, test new approaches quickly, and provide the insights that businesses need to make the necessary adjustments to their digital marketing strategies. Say hello to Kentico 9!

Kentico 9 Webinar Series – Bringing You Closer to Your Customers

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:10:46 GMT

The latest version of the all-in-one Kentico platform lands on November 24th. Join the Kentico 9 webinar series to get an inside look at the brand new features, all designed to make your digital marketing even more successful. Accelerate customer loyalty through new technologies with Kentico 9.

Web Farm 2.0: Enhanced Auto Scaling Support

Karol Jarkovsky — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:00:00 GMT

With Kentico 9, we bring you new Web Farm and Auto Scaling support built from the ground up. Cloud is slowly taking over as the preferred hosting environment, and cloud providers are enabling access to auto scaling technology for all subscribers. We, therefore, decided to rebuild our Web Farm support to accommodate better the needs of users for easy automatic setup and health tracking capabilities.

Kentico Receives Significant Microsoft Award

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:19:23 GMT

“Microsoft Award 2015 – CEO’s Award for Cloud Solutions with an International Reach”
On 9th April, at the 17th Microsoft Awards, Kentico proudly received a very special award from the CEO of Microsoft in the Czech Republic. In this contest for companies that develop solutions and applications on the Microsoft platform, Kentico has been recognized as one of the most active partners in the region.

Kentico+ managed platform is retiring

Karol Jarkovsky — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:00:00 GMT

Kentico’s journey to cloud started over 4 years ago when we became the first certified CMS vendor for Microsoft Azure cloud, as well as one of the first CMS vendors supporting other major cloud providers.

Deep Dive – Web Analytics

Karol Jarkovsky — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:26:02 GMT

In this webinar, Karol will take you behind the scenes of the analytics module, covering analytics API, the inner workings, and customization scenarios to make sure you know it all.

Updated Kentico Deliver Now! Methodology Available

Karol Jarkovsky — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:12:35 GMT

We are happy to announce the publishing of the updated Kentico Deliver Now! methodology.

Migrating Website To Cloud

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:55:58 GMT

With all the buzz around cloud computing these days, it is no surprise that more and more clients consider cloud as a replacement for their current infrastructure.

You are looking towards sky, but do you really know what it takes to migrate existing Kentico website to the cloud? Join Karol, our Consulting Services Manager, in this session full of best practices and recommendations for migration to the Windows Azure platform.

Kentico & Auto-Scale

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:23:14 GMT

We all know cloud is great, and Kentico agrees. We are trying hard to make our system easy-to-adapt to various cloud scenarios to improve scalability and stability of your solution. I was working on several cloud deployments recently, and wanted to throw some basic concepts for auto-scaling configuration at you.

Upgrading Kentico

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:23:13 GMT

With every release of Kentico, we bring you a ton of new functionality and improvements. That is why, sooner or later, most of you decide to upgrade your Kentico installation. Whether upgrading because of a specific feature that is only available in new version or because you just want to stay up to date with the latest technology, the upgrade process requires know-how and a certain level of expertise. In this webinar, we would like to share our recommendations, best practices and tips & tricks with you for achieving a fast, painless, and successful upgrade.

E-commerce Scenarios with Kentico 7

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:36:38 GMT

In this webinar, you will learn more about real world e-commerce scenarios and how to achieve flexible shipping for products, multiple pricing levels per product, discount/promotion customizations and much more.

K# and Macro Engine Test UI

Karol Jarkovsky — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:39:24 GMT

Recent months have been extremely busy for us in the Kentico Consulting Group. One of our client’s recent implementation heavily leveraged macro expressions and I realized that learning, testing and debugging macro expressions may not be the most fun or the easiest job if you do not have the right tools. To make the client’s life easier, I put together a simple UI serving such a purpose pretty well and I wanted to share it with you.

Transformations Revealed

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:30:11 GMT

This webinar is focused on transformations. With new transformation types, advanced hierarchical transformations and the new macro engine (and K# language), you can achieve more with less coding than ever before. See what is available in version 6.0 and what improvements are planned for transformations for coming versions.

K# and Kentico EMS – Real-World Example

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:05:17 GMT

This webinar session is focused on the new macro engine and K#. In the second part you will see how to use K# in a real world example for on-line marketing campaign, activities and scoring.

The REST Testing Interface Module

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:09:55 GMT

One of my favorite Kentico 6.0 features is built-in REST service that allows you to read, create, update and delete any object and document within the system by requesting simple and intuitive URLs. However, development and troubleshooting without proper testing tool can be, let's say, challenging. I have therefore decided to create a simple module that can be imported into existing Kentico instance and used to test your custom REST queries. Check-out this post for more details.

K# and Kentico EMS - Part 1

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:23:14 GMT

In this session, we are taking a more in depth look at how you would use K# in a real world example of an on-line marketing campaign, segmentation and scoring. It includes a demo on how K# can help you get the most out of the Kentico EMS On-line marketing platform from start to finish.

Optimizing Page Load Time

Karol Jarkovsky — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:43:33 GMT

In this blog post we are going to look at several best practices and recommendations that will help you achieve faster page load, take off some load from your website and ultimately give your website more room for breathing.

Building Highly Scalable Website

Karol Jarkovsky — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:29:24 GMT

Karol shows the features of Kentico CMS 6 that will help you build highly performing and scalable websites easier and faster. He focuses on best practices and recommendations to achieve faster page load, take off load from your website so it gets more room for breathing.

RWE: Sample Code Review

Karol Jarkovsky — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:47:45 GMT

I have got a chance to do code review for one of our client's recently and I thought I would share results with you. You should learn a bit more about our API and how it influences overall website performance. I would also like to use this sample code review to demonstrate what we can do as part of Kentico Professional Services.

Focus Group: Kentico Deliver Now! Methodology

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:05:05 GMT

It has been almost a year since we have released our very first methodology - Kentico Deliver Now! With the upcoming major release of Kentico CMS 6.0 it is time to revise the current methodology and update it with additional enterprise related topics and include more real world scenarios best practices. We need YOU to help us determine what areas should be improved to make it even more useful and valuable for you and all Kentico users.

Full Client Cache in Kentico CMS

Karol Jarkovsky — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:18:28 GMT

If you develop a highly scalable website where performance plays a significant role you most probably want to use a client side caching possibilities. Even though Kentico CMS supports client caching in certain scenarios an expiration mechanism in place can be improved to make user experience even better. In this webinar we are going to share an idea on how to extend current validation mechanism.

Handling Security Threats in Kentico CMS

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:46:31 GMT

No matter whether you develop websites from scratch or using a CMS system you always need to be concerned about security aspects of the project. In this webinar you get information about common security threats (SQL injection, XSS, XSRF, etc.) and how you can handle those in Kentico CMS project, using Kentico API.

Custom filter development with Kentico CMS

Karol Jarkovsky — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:15:23 GMT

As I couldn’t find any example on how to develop a custom filter in Kentico CMS, I decided to create one for you.

Kentico Deliver Now! Methodology Released

Karol Jarkovsky — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:33:31 GMT

We are happy to announce that our very first methodology was published today. The methodology was prepared in-house using our technical resources to collect all the information you should know to ensure the delivery of a successful Kentico CMS website.

Kentico CMS UI Controls – Part II - UniSelector

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:45:01 GMT

In this webinar you will learn how to effectively use the built-in UniSelector control used to make a selection from a list of objects using several different selection modes. This control can be found in many places within the user interface of Kentico CMS and can be used in your custom UI as well.

Kentico CMS UI Controls – Part I - UniGrid

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:39:56 GMT

The webinar covers out-of-box controls that Kentico UI consists of. Once you get familiar with these, you may use them either on your custom administration pages or even on a live site. The controls include UniGrid, UniSelector, UniPager, UniTree, UniMenu, etc.

Project managment and development with Kentico Deliver Now!

Karol Jarkovsky — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:37:47 GMT

The goal of this post is to provide you with insights into why we decided to design and create our own Kentico CMS methodology, what the key areas the methodology focuses on are and what kind of valuable information and assistance you can expect from the methodology.

Effective Gathering of Requirements for Kentico CMS

Karol Jarkovsky — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:36:29 GMT

Getting all the necessary information on project requirements forms a solid base for a successful project. The input data gained at this stage tends to be used during the phases following the development flow. You should be really thorough during the requirements gathering phase. That's why we would like to present you some useful hints you can take advantage of in your discussion with customer.

Getting Started Consulting Package launched!

Karol Jarkovsky — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:57:50 GMT

Are you just about to start a new project with Kentico CMS and not quite sure where to start digging for information? Is your head spinning around from all those requirements that need to fit somewhere and it seems even more difficult to design it the right way? Are you facing your first Kentico CMS project and need help to get onto the right track? Please read more about the recently launched Getting Started Consulting Package to find out how we could be of help to you.

Development and Production Environment Setup with Kentico CMS

Karol Jarkovsky — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:32:15 GMT

The webinar covers best practices on how to setup the team development environment for Kentico CMS, how to push changes done in development to QA in the most efficient manner. Karol also mentions various scenarios on the development environment setup. Moreover, the webinar covers different options on how the production environment may be configured to support high-traffic websites needs.

RWE II: Examples on how to effectively use Kentico CMS potential

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:07:49 GMT

Let's take a look on more real world examples in this post. This time aimed on the content management and CSS related topics.

Helpful CSS classes rendered for the BODY element

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:34:52 GMT

If you're struggling to make your web site look good for all the different browsers or just want to apply unique styles for different cultures, you might take advantage of the BODY classes rendered for you by Kentico CMS output engine.

Styling the page based on a specific information

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:51:31 GMT

You can assign different styles to your page based on the specific information on the currently displayed document. This article describes how to do that on global level from within the master page code.

Localization of radio buttons' text values

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:54:49 GMT

If you want to localize radio buttons' text values you can use the localization macro expressions to do the trick for you.

The Real World Examples (RWE) rolling to your screen

Karol Jarkovsky — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:51:41 GMT

I must confess- I haven't contributed to my blog for quite a time now. I was just too busy these days; however, I decided it's time to bring you something valuable again. Thus, I'd like to introduce a new kind of series of Knowledge Base (KB) articles and posts that would discuss topics I came across while working on various projects with our customers. Read about first 5 topics in here!

Using alternative forms based on user-specific information

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:57:45 GMT

You want to use the User contributions (Wiki) module of Kentico CMS to allow the users contribute to your web site. On top of that, based on the role current user belongs to; you want to control how detailed editing form is displayed. This KB article demonstrates how to achieve this in Kentico CMS.

How to include custom data in the HEAD element of a page

Karol Jarkovsky — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:56:28 GMT

It is not so rare that you need to include your custom HTML code (metadata, ref to CSS file, etc.) in the HEAD element of the page rendered by Kentico CMS. In this article you're going to see how you can do so using out-of-box functionality of Kentico CMS.

Allow end users create page and define its metadata easily

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:00:31 GMT

In this article you find out how to give your end (live site) users possibility to not only create content on your Kentico CMS based web site, but on top of that enrich functionality by allowing them to specify a metadata information related to the page being created.

How the 'Automatic resize' comes handy

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:44:56 GMT

You have might come across the situation when there is some kind of limitation related to the amount of space available for your site. It doesn't really matter if we'd talk about the file system or the data base. Either way, it simply requires you to get a chance to control the size of the files uploaded to the system by the CMS users. To handle such situation effectively, you can use built-in support for automatic image resizing, that can eventually save you quite a bunch of bytes of your memory.

Displaying only particular tabs in selection dialogs for the HTML area fields

Karol Jarkovsky — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:52:55 GMT

With an introduction of a new selection dialogs (Insert link, Insert image or media) you've got an option to decide what type of items the user will be displayed with, whenever the content is entered int the HTML area field. The simple guide on how to display only specific areas to the CMS users through the selection dialogs is outlined in this KB article.

Kentico CMS Deliver Now! Methodology Introduction

Karol Jarkovsky — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:04:27 GMT

Let’s talk about the new Kentico CMS Deliver Now! Methodology we work on. As you all know, we greatly appreciate the feedback we get from you- our customers. So, please share your opinion on our initial draft of the new methodology.

Kentico CMS persona for Firefox

Karol Jarkovsky — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:25:05 GMT

Firefox Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that change the look of your Firefox web browser. There are thousands of Personas to choose from including theme inspired by new Kentico CMS design.

Windows Live Writer integration

Karol Jarkovsky — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:18:25 GMT

UPDATE: This article only applies to Kentico v5 and v6. In Kentico v7 and above the MetaWeblog API is integrated as part of the solution, and can be enabled via system settings. Please refer to - https://docs.kentico.com/x/qYJDAg for more information on the configuration.

When your passion is in spreading word over the internet, you probably find a great potential in contributing to various blogging sites like Blogger.com or Thoughts.com. Working on your post using browser-based blog interface, you may sooner or later face an unpleasant situation when something goes wrong down the road. If you lose connection while a post is being published or your browser crashes accidently, hundreds of lines of your thoughts disappear and you cannot get them back. That is where the desktop blog-publishing tool comes in handy. One of my favorites is Windows Live Writer (http://download.live.com/writer). It is completely free. I’d like to show you what you can do with WLW integrated with Kentico CMS. First part is more about a user experience; however, I’ll cover all integration details later as well.

Hunting for the integration challenge

Karol Jarkovsky — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:47:37 GMT

Have you ever come across an interesting implementation concerning Kentico CMS? For the next couple of days I’m looking for a 3rd party component to demonstrate how to include it within Kentico CMS.

Introducing consulting blog

Karol Jarkovsky — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:51:41 GMT

Welcome to the consulting blog where useful hints on how to achieve various tasks with the Kentico CMS will be presented. Most importantly, I will try to provide information on goals and issues that real projects involve. Hopefully together we will form a solid base of inspiration for your project and evoke even greater interest in Kentico.