Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter I announced that McSandy was in beta mode, I created a Reddit post for McSandy, and asked for feedback. What I noticed is that a lot of folks don’t really get why I made McSandy — because there’s tons of other … Continue reading
Author: paceaux
Introducing McSandy: An Offline Code Editor
Reading Time: 3 minutesAbout two and a half years ago, I lived in Colorado, and had to fly out to Columbus Ohio pretty regularly. On one such flight, I wanted to test out some CSS and HTML. But I didn’t have any Wifi … Continue reading
TRI and Catch: A new way to do Tridion Implementations
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous post, I mentioned the SDL Tridion MVP retreat, and that front-end is going to become a really big deal in the world of Tridion. Today, I would like to briefly discuss what I meant by that. (Briefly means “under … Continue reading
What I learned at the SDL Tridion MVP retreat: Sharing is Caring
Reading Time: 6 minutes All the way back in Febuary Ferbruary Febfruary the second month of this year, I wrote about how I’d been nominated for this really cool award, the SDL Tridion Most Valued Professional award. Also known as the Tridion MVP … Continue reading
Grunt.js: Minify, rename, and put it in another folder
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you know Grunt.js, this post is for you. Grunt is a super awesome node.js-based task runner. It makes development easier, your productivity faster, and your attractiveness… attractiver. I don’t want to go through all 3,000+ reasons that Grunt is fantastic, … Continue reading
Front-end Architecture Options in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had a discussion recently about whether to put CSS into Tridion as multimedia components or code components, and it triggered a really fun discussion. We talked about all of our different strategies and use-cases for managing the CSS in … Continue reading
Two Front-end Tidbits for Tridion Guys
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I’ve mentioned previously, I recently left Tahzoo and started working at a new company called Content Bloom. Last week was Content Bloom’s global training summit, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (if that’s a real place). Everyone at the … Continue reading
Stylus and BEM: A quick mixin
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, my good buddy Wes has fallen in love with BEM, that glorious HTML/CSS methodology that adds reinforced steel to your front-end framework. And he discovered the other day that someone has written a SASS mixin for writing BEM. But…but…I’m … Continue reading
The Case for Re-Architecting Your CSS (with a CSS Preprocessor)
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the last few months I’ve become a pretty big fan of a particular CSS preprocessor called Stylus. Stylus is a node.js-powered preprocessor that I’ve used with some clients. Stylus has offered a huge boost in both my productivity and … Continue reading
The End of !important: Using Specificity Tricks to Trump Styles
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I was hit with a small challenge of fixing a snippet of code that fixed a problem with a third party application called Media Manager. It does some pretty nifty things with videos — but it also injects a <style> … Continue reading