Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, this week I finally decided to do a deep dive into Alchemy for Tridion, which is the latest hipster technology to have been created for Tridion. If you’re unfamiliar with Alchemy for Tridion, I had a little bit to … Continue reading
Category: Web
I’m a web developer and a consultant. Almost everything here is web related. Maybe I’m talking about a CMS, CSS, or UX or UI. Or maybe it’s about web browsers and HTML5.
TAPS at the SDL Web MVP Retreat (Tridion, Alchemy, Performance, Seafood)
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn January of this year, I learned that for the second time I had been honored with an award by SDL. In 2014, I’d been given the SDL Tridion MVP award. This year, I earned the SDL Web MVP award. … 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
SDL Media Manager is Now Responsive
Reading Time: 2 minutesSDL has this spiffy little product called Media Manager. Media Manager is a tool for uploading and managing multimedia assets, and it does a really good job at working with video, in particular. With videos, you could upload a video … Continue reading
Lessons from Carpentry in Web Development
Reading Time: 7 minutesI come from a family of builders. My father’s father was a master carpenter. And though my father was a business man by career, he was an excellent carpenter by trade. My grandfather built a dresser for my father that … Continue reading
Copy and Paste Components Across Publications in Tridion
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, there’s a thing in Tridion that you can’t do: Copy and Paste components across publications. And it’s kind of annoying. Especially if, say, you accidentally created 50 components in the wrong publication. Now what do you do? Well, what … Continue reading
Someone Called Me about Comcast’s Service
Reading Time: 5 minutesSometimes, you might have Comcast internet. And sometimes the service speeds are less than stellar. And sometimes, you might get annoyed, and tweet about it. And sometimes… just sometimes, someone might call call you.
Some Guiding Principles For Front-End Development
Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve recently had a bout of philosophy that I can’t quite shake. I like philosophy a lot, and I think we’re all philosophers. I think I picked up that idea in my Ayn Rand phase, where she said, As a … Continue reading
Front-end Best Practices for Tridion’s Experience Manager
Reading Time: 2 minutesTridion’s Experience Manager (XPM) has been a hot topic at Tahzoo recently. Piti Itharat, Shawn Webber, and I have all been talking about some of the “gotchas” we’ve experienced in the front-end of XPM implementations. Especially after a few front-end … Continue reading
Creating a CSS or JS Razor Component Template for multimedia components in Tridion
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday was a rough day. I’ve got a new Tridion implementation that I’m working with, and I was feeling a little defeated by DD4T. It’s no beef on the framework, it’s just a lot to wrap my head around. So … Continue reading