Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a growing trend of ditching traditional “back-end” frameworks for dynamically rendering pages. As the interest in client-side frameworks grows, so does confusion about which one to use. There’s React! But then there’s Angular…and have you heard about Vue? What … Continue reading
Category: Tridion
Structuring link HTML for a Tridion Schema
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the most part, good front-end code isn’t affected by the application that serves it. And, for the most part, good front-end code doesn’t need to be written specifically for that application. But there are some exceptions —like structuring the … Continue reading
Going to a Real Web Page from Tridion with a Bookmarklet
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
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
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
Front-end for the back-end: CSS Variables for content-managed styles
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the things that front-end and back-end developers alike loathe is the dreaded scenario where a content author wants to be able to add their own styles to content. No, not set a skin or theme to the content. … Continue reading