2015

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Reading Time: 5 minutes This 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 directing a front-end developer’s focus away from design, and on to content. And we’ve also

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Reading Time: 5 minutes This is a continuation of a previous post that I wrote, entitled Front-end for the Middle: Focus and Design. Previously, we established that it’s better for a front-end developer to be focused on content, rather than design. In this post, we’re going to move into a discussion on how HTML semantics can influence what happens

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A few months back I had the opportunity to present at the Tridion Developer Summit in Amsterdam. Gino Toro, (former) product manager for Media Manager was going to be speaking on Media Manager, so I decided to try a different topic. After debating on a few different topics, I settled on “CSS3 and HTML5 for

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Ever looked at a component in Tridion and wondered, “what schema does that use?” I have. All the time. Opening up the component to find out what schema it uses is just too many clicks. Ain’t nobody got time for that! I want to select an item, right-click on it, click on something in the

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Reading Time: 2 minutes So, 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 say about it when I summarized the SDL Web MVP retreat. Alchemy is the way

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Reading Time: 2 minutes This 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 for Media Manager, so I figured this was a good excuse to start experimenting with

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Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s been a very, very long time since i just sat down with a guitar and jammed for an evening. Last night I started with a mandolin, then switched to banjo, and then ended up on a guitar. I decided to change the tuning to C G D G B E, and use a capo

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Reading Time: 2 minutes SDL 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 in just about any format imaginable, and Media Manager would do some magic behind the

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Reading Time: 7 minutes I 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 I still use today. I have boxes that my father built, a pump organ that