Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m very sad to announce that January 14th will be my last full work-day with EXLRT. On January 17th, I’ll be joining Red Hat as a Senior Drupal Developer. So I’m not just leaving my company, I’m leaving a little … Continue reading
Tag: Tridion
Headless doesn’t mean Clueless when it comes to your CMS
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Headless CMS” is all the rage these days, and for good reason: It’s easier to build the UI the way you want. Your front-end team doesn’t need to know anything about the CMS now, right? Wrong. Headless doesn’t mean clueless.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven … Continue reading
The 2010’s. A near decade in review
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor the past few years I’ve been writing these, “year in review” things to summarize my full year. This time around, I’m going to review an entire friggin’ decade. Why? Because a lot has happened in a near decade. 2010 … Continue reading
Should I use a JavaScript framework with a Tridion implementation?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a growing trend of ditching traditional “back-end” frameworks for dynamically rendering pages. As the interest in client-side frameworks grows, so does confusion about which one to use. There’s React! But then there’s Angular…and have you heard about Vue? What … Continue reading
TSONp: Tridion, Surfers, Ourém, NPM, pork
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt came to my shock and surprise to learn in January that I’d been awarded a fourth SDL Tridion Web Tridion MVP award. In the previous year, I hadn’t felt as if my contributions were that great —but contribution is … Continue reading
Quick Tips for CSS (that scales) for a CMS
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s not that hard to write CSS. The basics of how the language works can be learned in 15 minutes. Most of the major properties and techniques for using them can be learned in a few days. You can learn … Continue reading
Front-end for the back-end: CSS Variables for content-managed styles
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the things that front-end and back-end developers alike loathe is the dreaded scenario where a content author wants to be able to add their own styles to content. No, not set a skin or theme to the content. … Continue reading
Front-end for the back-end: Tips for debugging CSS
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo you’re a back-end developer. You write .net or Java all day. You create Schemas and Templates in Tridion. It’s Friday. The front-end developers have signed off early and you just got a high priority bug. And it’s in the … 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