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
Category: Projects and apps
Projects that I’ve worked on in github, NPM, or elsewhere
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
Hacking Media Manager at an SDL Hackathon
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, SDL decided to host a hackathon that launched at SDL Innovate. And I, having a full time job, school, and a side project, needed something to keep me busy. So I decided to participate. I had some ideas … Continue reading
DS4T++: Now including forms
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Default Schemas 4 Tridion project is my favorite pet Tridion project. And like my other pets, I hope other people like it as much as I do… and they forgive it for shedding so much. A good while back, … Continue reading
Four Features of McSandy you might appreciate
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
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
flexModal: a jQuery Plugin that a CMS will love
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous post, I talked about some general better practices for writing jQuery plugins that will play nicely in content management systems. Today, I’d like to introduce one such plugin: flexModal.
SDL Media Manager – a Necessary jQuery Plugin
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve been working with Media Manager pretty heavily these last few months. One thing that I’ve noticed is that there’s no real jQuery plugins out there to assist with embedding Media Manager videos. Well, … Continue reading
The Contenteditable jQuery Plugin Gets an Update
Reading Time: 2 minutesA good long while ago, I discovered that contenteditable was a pretty nifty attribute to play with, especially when you get CSS involved. Then I stumbled upon the scoped attribute which you can apply to a <style>block, which isolates styles … Continue reading