Reading Time: 4 minutesSo, it’s a few days after Christmas. I had some money to spare. Every year or two I have a fun side project. In previous years it’s been guitars, amps or traditional archery. This year it’s been upgrading my AK-74. … 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.
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
Responsive Design is Not the (complete) Answer
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the last year or so, “Responsive Design” has become quite the buzzword. It’s not just industry jargon or a little article on A List Apart anymore. Project managers, business analysts, salesmen and marketing executives are tossing around the term … 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
Exploring the CSSOM: Making a CSS Object Analyzer
Reading Time: 4 minutesA while back I wrote about an amazing discovery I’d made in which I learned that stylesheets are part of the DOM. I mentioned some properties to play with for fun and profit, and then heartily went on my way. … Continue reading
True story: The Android Web Browser is the Honey Badger of Flexbox
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been working for the last month or two on some super cool mobile templates for a client. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, we’ve pulled out all of the awesome for this. If Tridion were a person, it would … 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