Reading Time: 14 minutesI am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn’t about you personally. It’s about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. … Continue reading
Tag: Front-end
Tridion and Node: Why Node is a big deal
Reading Time: 4 minutesA few months back I had the opportunity to speak at the Tridion Developer Summit. You can go through my slides, or watch my presentation first, if you’d like. What I want to do is expand on many of the different points … 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
How does a front-end developer get started in Tridion?
Reading Time: 2 minutesFront-end developers have enough on their plates. Between the latest CSS modules, the “HTML5” APIs, JavaScript updates, and new frameworks (Angular 2, React), it’s hard enough to keep up. And if that isn’t enough, then there’s the content management systems: … Continue reading
Two more things a front-end developer should know about schemas in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, you’re a front-end developer. You’re trying to learn about Tridion and how it affects your life. Maybe you’ve met some Tridion architects you want to impress. Maybe you’ve aggravated them, but you’ve run out of whisky. Even after my … Continue reading
Four Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Schemas in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou’re a front-end developer. You’re writing for a component template. You hand off HTML for a back-end developer to write a view. The back-end developer looks at it, goes cross-eyed and starts muttering to himself. You explain it. He says, … Continue reading
7 Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Tridion
Reading Time: 8 minutesSo, you’re a front-end developer, eh? And you’ve been told that you’ll be writing code, and that it’ll be moved into a Content Management System. Called Tridion. And you can’t find out where to download it because there’s not a … Continue reading
Front-end for the Middle: Coding and CMSing for Relationships
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is part three of a series called “Front-end for the Middle”. Honestly, I didn’t mean to write three posts. But when one post is over 2,000 words without being finished, it’s time to get slicing. Previously, we’ve talked about … 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
TRI and Catch: A new way to do Tridion Implementations
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous post, I mentioned the SDL Tridion MVP retreat, and that front-end is going to become a really big deal in the world of Tridion. Today, I would like to briefly discuss what I meant by that. (Briefly means “under … Continue reading