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
Category: Tridion
SDL Tridion 2014 MVP, and really cool badges
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, it’s a tad overdue, but I’d like to briefly mention something that happened about a month ago. I got this super neat email from Nuno Linhares, who works at SDL.
SDL’s Media Manager Outlets: An Introduction
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the last few months, I’ve been doing a substantial amount of front-end work on SDL’s Media Manager tool. While you can find a pretty decent amount of information on Tridion via blogs and stack exchange, you won’t find much … Continue reading
Content Injection, and Angular.js
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, not too long ago I had the opportunity to sit down with Miguel Miguelez and Nuno Linhares, both from SDL. Over the course of one or several beers, we discussed the Frenchness of the French, super awesome tattoo ideas, … Continue reading
Nine Tips for Uploading in SDL Media Manager
Reading Time: 5 minutesMedia Manager is by far one of the cooler products that SDL could offer. It appeals to my inner geek. It offers rich asset management over a content distribution network and it does codec conversion. It’s an HTML5 developer’s dream. … Continue reading
Default Schemas for Tridion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been working on a new Tridion implementation for a client, and for the last few days all I’ve been doing is making schemas. No, not content schemas. Embeddable schemas. Metadata schemas. Schemas that aren’t even necessarily specific to the … Continue reading
Fighting a Lift and Shift Project with Tridion as Your Weapon
Reading Time: 7 minutesRecently I was given a web project— but not just any type of web project. The kind we hate most. The one that’s best-labeled a “future awful idea”. The one developers will try to kill —with fire. The kind of project … Continue reading
Tridion Pro Tip: Add a Multimedia Type for CSS Preprocessor extensions
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, you’re hooked on the idea of using a CSS preprocessor, and you’re thinking of even managing your files in Tridion. Not a bad idea, right? But uploading those binaries into a multimedia schema isn’t as easy as it looks. … Continue reading
Architecting the CSS in a Tridion Implementation (How to keep the hippies from winning)
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a previous post that I wrote, I talked about living the web developer’s fantasy of being told, “be as cutting edge as you want”, and how Joe Shirley (a fellow Tahzooligan) and I decided to use all the nice … Continue reading
Using BEM to take Tridion implementations from good to great
Reading Time: 6 minutesNot too long ago, I was put on a new project at Tahzoo and I got to hear what many developers in the community (and even at Tahzoo) can only fantasize about: “Be as cutting edge as you want.”. A … Continue reading