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Jon Binnie, Technical Delivery Manager at Realise Digital

13+ years Development and Technical Management experience working on Web & Software Development, Certified/Accredited Ektron Developer
Since joining Realise introduced Agile & Lean development methodologies
Previous role as Development Manager at Lloyds Banking Group for 5 years delivering £1m+ Ecommerce projects for critical Online Banking Applications

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A Mobile Device Detection Widget

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The Device Detection Widget For Ektron DevelopersWhat is the Device Detection Widget?Ektron have implemented device detection, which when enabled, serves a different website template depending on the device accessing the site. The benefits are that you can serve two (or more) completely different versions of a website using the same content. New devices, models and versions come on to the market everyday which makes it difficult to keep up with. This can result in some detection issues which are difficult to investigate and resolve. A New WidgetTo help investigate any device detection

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Ektron eSync - General Best Practises

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Ektron eSync Best PracticesThe Ektron CMS has a very powerful feature called eSync. You can visit the Ektron website for further information on eSync. This tool enables the promotion of code, assets and content between your various Ektron website environments. Over the last few years, we have been implementing eSync on all our new client websites. Here are some of the best practises we'd like to share, based on our experience with Ektron eSync. Ektron Environments & Route to LiveEktron websites typically comprise if a number of different environments, each with it’s own. These environments

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Ektron 8.5 Implementation – Apex Hotels (UK)

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BackgroundIn November last year, early on in Apex Hotels redesign project, Ektron released their final release candidate of 8.5 which marks a step change in their CMS platform. Originally we had planned to develop the Apex site on Ektron 8.0.2. This presented us with a decision, whether or not to move the project to the new version in order to take advantage of the latest features.Client Benefits of moving to Ektron 8.5We reviewed the business/technical benefits and the potential risks with the client and they agreed to move to this latest release. The key benefits, specific to Apex

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