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
Category: Front-end
Front-end Development: the fun stuff that happens in the browser with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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
Changing Media Manager Video Sizes with Tridion: a Fullscreen problem
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt my Media Manager presentation at Tridion Developer Summit a few weeks ago, I showed a trick for resizing your Media Manager videos outside of Media Manager’s outlets. This morning, I learned that there was a bug with the approach, … Continue reading
CMS-Friendly jQuery Widgets
Reading Time: 4 minutesjQuery isn’t going anywhere. It’s the most widely used JavaScript-library, it has a huge community, and offers a plethora of plugins. With its wide-spread acceptance, it’s not surprising when CMS developers (Tridionauts and the like) get prototypes using different jQuery … Continue reading
Finding Prime Numbers with JavaScript
Reading Time: 3 minutesFeeling nerdier than usual last night, I was asking myself, and a math teacher (that’s Mrs. Jaye, to you), all sorts of questions about numbers, including prime numbers. Later on, I got to thinking: how would I determine what the … Continue reading
Page Visibility and Speech Synthesis: How to make web pages sound needy
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been frustrated with a lot of different things this week, so I decided to take my mind off of things for a few minutes and play with something new today. In doing so, I may have created the most … Continue reading