Reading Time: 4 minutesEver been the new person on an old project where you were trying to not make things substantially worse? Maybe you need to position an element, but you don’t know what z-index value is safe to use. You don’t want … Continue reading
Tag: JavaScript
Introducing Isidore
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnyone who knows me knows that I have a bit of a thing for languages. I like studying them and I like speaking them. But I also like learning how they…work. A few years ago I read a book called, The … Continue reading
Hacking Media Manager with the Canvas API
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn July of 2015 I had the opportunity to participate in the first ever SDL Hackathon. The rules were relatively simple: Pick an SDL product, do something cool with it. In recent months I’ve been learning quite a bit about … 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
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
CSSOM revisited: Modifying styles with JavaScript a more sane way
Reading Time: 3 minutesWait, what’s the CSSOM? Well, I’ve talked about it in the past; it’s the object model for your styles. I even wrote about how to make a CSSOM analyzer. What I didn’t know then, that I know now, is that … Continue reading
Four things Tridion guys should know about Front-end in 2016
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe world of front-end development is changing at a lightning fast pace. It’s hard enough for a front-end developer to keep up. So, how should a Tridion architect or general back-end developer stay “in the know” about the world of … Continue reading
A Neat Tridion Trick With the Pub Up Bookmarklet
Reading Time: 3 minutesJust a short while ago, I announced a tiny lil’ Tridion bookmarklet called Pub Up!™. It was a very simple bookmarklet that left you in your current location in your folders, and just took you one publication higher. Well, when … 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
Exploring the DOM: Your stylesheets are objects (document.styleSheets)
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo, I was helping out a fellow coworker with a JavaScript issue where we were trying to figure out if there was a property somewhere that could tell us what the referring window was. While he was using ‘the googles’, … Continue reading