Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve been working in a particular Tridion implementation for quite some time now. It doesn’t have Site EditExperience Manager set up. So when I find a page, I have to sort out in my own brain what the actual url … Continue reading
Author: paceaux
Tridion Tip: When Links aren’t Front-end Problems
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis came up today. A few guys on the front-end team were trying to figure out why a link wasn’t working. I came in on the tail-end of the problem, when one of them shared the source code for a … Continue reading
Introducing DXAJS
Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of the really fun projects that we worked on over the 2017 SDL MVP retreat was one that involved one of my favorite things: JavaScript. In particular, using JavaScript with SDL’s DXA framework. In two short days at the … Continue reading
Lessons from a Tridion Retreat: JavaScript for Java guys
Reading Time: 9 minutesOne of the really cool things to come out of this year’s retreat was a lot of discussion around JavaScript. About 90% of the programming I do is in JavaScript. Not only is it the language where I have the … Continue reading
Cheap, Affordable A/B Testing for Campaigns in Tridion
Reading Time: 3 minutesI recently had a question come up of how one could do A/B Testing in Tridion. There are some old Tridion plugins out there, and it would certainly be possible to develop an Alchemy extension for one today. But there … Continue reading
TSONp: Tridion, Surfers, Ourém, NPM, pork
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt came to my shock and surprise to learn in January that I’d been awarded a fourth SDL Tridion Web Tridion MVP award. In the previous year, I hadn’t felt as if my contributions were that great —but contribution is … Continue reading
CSS Fonts Level 4 is exciting! (really)
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe W3C recently tweeted the first working draft of the new CSS Fonts module. And I read it. And I’m excited, and I think you should be, too. There’s a lot of cool things that are going to help us … Continue reading
Quick Tips for CSS (that scales) for a CMS
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s not that hard to write CSS. The basics of how the language works can be learned in 15 minutes. Most of the major properties and techniques for using them can be learned in a few days. You can learn … Continue reading
Advanced Screenshots with Headless Chrome
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you haven’t heard, headless Chrome is now A Thing™. A few days ago I wrote a post on how to use Headless Chrome to grab some screenshots from the command line, using a dab o’node and a healthy dose … Continue reading
Seeing Screenshots with a Headless Chrome
Reading Time: 4 minutesVersion 59 of Chrome introduced something really cool for Mac developers: a Headless Chrome. It means that now we can run Chrome without using Chrome. How cool is that? In the past we’ve relied on phantom.js or Selenium Webdriver for … Continue reading