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Awards ·

BizStream Recognized as One of West Michigan’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For

BizStream is recognized as one of West Michigan’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for the sixth year in a row!

By Michelle Lentz//

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Advice ·

Want New Members? Make Sure Your Website Does This.

Associations depend on new membership recruitment. But attracting this audience isn’t easy. Discover four tactics to help draw in prospects.

By Drew Veach//

Advice ·

The Mental Health Day: You Owe It to Yourself

Everyone needs a mental health day sometimes, learn more about mental health days in this blog post.

By Josh Rubino//

Kentico ·

Kentico Xperience Page Builder: Complex Sections & Widgets

Page Builder by Kentico Xperience is a very powerful tool for developers and content administrators. Giving this much power to content admins can be a…

By Ian TeGrootenhuis//

Development ·

Learning Cypress Automation With Cypress Studio

At BizStream, Cypress Studio has significantly improved the efficiency of QA testing by automating repetitive tasks and simplifying script generation; for more details, keep reading.

By Josh Trench//

Advice ·

4 Ways to Take Control of Your Metadata and Increase Your Social Media Presence

It’s important to make sure your brand looks good when people are posting on social media, otherwise you could be missing out on free advertising!

By Dave Valko//

Advice ·

Design Like a Developer

Design and development should work together, both are important when building a website.

By Shelby Tieche//

Advice ·

8 Tips for Maintaining Sanity During Difficult Times

It’s hard to believe that it has been almost a year since we first felt the initial impact of Covid. And what a year it was!

By Amanda Hodges//

Tutorials ·

Personalizing Content Via Personas in Kentico Xperience

Learn how to personalize content in Kentico Xperience with personas.

By Caleb Compston//

Advice ·

What it Means to Care as a Developer and Why You Should Want to

One of our core values is “care.” This blog post is about how Cory interprets “care” as a developer.

By Cory Vandenbout//

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Tutorials ·

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Placing Trades on Forex.com via Python

Learn everything you need to start placing trades in the market.

By Ben Buurstra//

Advice ·

10 Reasons You Should be Using Kentico Xperience 13 as Your DXP

Kentico recently launched Kentico Xperience 13, making its platorm even better for marketers and developers.

By Michelle Lentz//

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Awards ·

Brian McKeiver Chosen as 2021 Kontent.ai MVP

Brian McKeiver is named Kontent.ai MVP for the second year in a row!

By Michelle Lentz//

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Kentico ·

Brian McKeiver Announced as a 2021 Kentico MVP

BizStream is proud to announce that our Co-Owner and Solution Architect, Brian McKeiver, has been named a Kentico MVP for 2021.

By Michelle Lentz//

Kentico ·

We’re a Kentico Managed Cloud Hosting Partner!

We are now a Kentico Managed Cloud Hosting Partner! Learn more about what that means.

By Michelle Lentz//

Awards ·

BizStream Named National Best and Brightest in Wellness by the National Association for Business Resources

BizStream is named Best and Brightest in Wellness!

By Michelle Lentz//

Awards ·

Brian McKeiver Earns Kentico Xperience 12 Developer Certification

We are excited to announce that our co-owner and solution architect, Brian McKeiver, has earned his Kentico Xperience 12 Developer Certification!

By Michelle Lentz//

Awards ·

BizStream Founder Earns Kentico Xperience 12 Developer Certification

We are excited to announce that our founder, Mark Schmidt, has earned the Kentico Xperience 12 Certification!

By Michelle Lentz//

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Kontent.ai ·

Brian McKeiver Announced as a Kontent.ai MVP

McKeiver is one of seven 2020 Kentico Kontent MVPs worldwide and the only MVP in the nation.

By Michelle Lentz//

Tutorials ·

Defining Personas to Enhance Your Kentico Xperience Site

Learn how to enhance your site on Kentico Xperience by using personas, which is a helpful tool available.

By Caleb Compston//

Awards ·

Brian McKeiver Re-Certified as Kontent.ai Developer

Brian McKeiver has renewed his Kontent.ai Certified Developer certification!

By Michelle Lentz//

Tutorials ·

IIS Performance Tips and Scripts

In this article, I’ll give a few tips on how I was able to reduce the server’s memory footprint by 50% and improve the responsiveness of our sites.

By Nate Graham//

Tutorials ·

How to Set up a Raspberry Pi VI: Set up Release Pipeline to Raspberry Pi

Learn how to set up a release pipeline to Raspberry Pi in this tutorial.

By Albert Hovingh//

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Tutorials ·

How to Set up a Raspberry Pi IV: Creating a .NET Core Website on Your Pi

Keep reading to find out how to set up your very own website on a Raspberry Pi.

By Albert Hovingh//

Tutorials ·

How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi V: Set Up Build to Raspberry Pi Using Azure DevOps

If you want to run a website from your Raspberry Pi, there is good news for you, it can be done and I'll show you how!

By Albert Hovingh//

Tutorials ·

How to Set up a Raspberry Pi III: Troubleshooting Issues

Learn how to troubleshoot common issues with Raspberry Pi

By Albert Hovingh//

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Tutorials ·

How to Set up a Raspberry Pi II: Enabling SSH on Raspberry Pi

Be sure to check out the first blog post in this series, How to Set up a Raspberry Pi: Getting Started, before diving into this post.…

By Albert Hovingh//

Tutorials ·

How to Set up a Raspberry Pi I: Getting Started

In the world of the Internet of things (IoT), the most versatile thing is a full-blown computer. Most people (including myself) are too cheap for…

By Albert Hovingh//

Tutorials ·

.NET Core 3.1 with Kontent.ai – Part 1: Clean Architecture Design

This series will focus on giving you the tools you need to create awesome products with .NET Core and Kontent.ai.

By Joel Burke//

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Tutorials ·

.NET Core 3.1 with Kontent.ai – Part 2: Clean Architecture Implementation

In Part 2, we’ll look at the code associated with this architecture and trace a request from a controller down into the repository layer and back up to the UI.

By Joel Burke//