Reading Time: 7 minutes In January of this year, I learned that for the second time I had been honored with an award by SDL. In 2014, I’d been given the SDL Tridion MVP award. This year, I earned the SDL Web MVP award. And it was pretty rad. If you’re unfamiliar with the SDL Web MVP awards, then
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
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
Reading Time: 2 minutes So, there’s a thing in Tridion that you can’t do: Copy and Paste components across publications. And it’s kind of annoying. Especially if, say, you accidentally created 50 components in the wrong publication. Now what do you do? Well, what I do is come up with a bookmarklet, to make it like it never happened.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tridion’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 folks started asking for tips on how to be XPM-minded when writing HTML and CSS,
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today was a rough day. I’ve got a new Tridion implementation that I’m working with, and I was feeling a little defeated by DD4T. It’s no beef on the framework, it’s just a lot to wrap my head around. So I decided to do something that I thought should be an easy win: Create a
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re trying to make the DS4T project better. In order to make it better, we need to ask some questions. And what better way to do that than to create a survey for you. Please, take five minutes of your time, and answer this short survey.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well, it’s been about 350 days since the last time I reflected on a year. A lot of stuff happened since the Polar Vortex from Hell visited the midwest. Let’s discuss.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just 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 I announced this to the SDL Tridion MVP chat room, Nuno (AKA The King of
Reading Time: 2 minutes A few months ago, Dominic Cronin got this wild idea to have a bookmarklet competition with Tridion. The rules were very simple: Make a bookmarklet that does something with the GUI in Tridion. Share it. Well, I’m a fan of JavaScript. And challenges. So I whipped up Pub Up!