Reading Time: 3 minutes There’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 about Handlebars? But let’s back up a second. Should you even use one at all?
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the most part, good front-end code isn’t affected by the application that serves it. And, for the most part, good front-end code doesn’t need to be written specifically for that application. But there are some exceptions —like structuring the HTML for a title and a link when the link is optional. That’s a case
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve been working in a particular Tridion implementation for quite some time now. It doesn’t have Site EditExperience Manager set up. So when I find a page, I have to sort out in my own brain what the actual url is. And then I have to type it into a browser and actually go there.
Reading Time: 2 minutes This 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 link. They were ready to start down the path of, “let’s find it in the
Reading Time: 6 minutes One of the really fun projects that we worked on over the 2017 SDL MVP retreat was one that involved one of my favorite things: JavaScript. In particular, using JavaScript with SDL’s DXA framework. In two short days at the SDL MVP retreat, Bart Koopman, Raimond Kempees, Niclas Cedermalm, Saurabh Gangwar, and I, managed to
Reading Time: 9 minutes One 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 most experience, it’s the language I like the most. It’s quirky and weird at times,
Reading Time: 3 minutes I recently had a question come up of how one could do A/B Testing in Tridion. There are some old Tridion plugins out there, and it would certainly be possible to develop an Alchemy extension for one today. But there is an easy way that you could optionally show/hide components, that could be implemented in
Reading Time: 7 minutes It 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 not in the eye of the beholder. One of the perks of winning an MVP
Reading Time: < 1 minute If 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 of Promises. Well, after a little more fiddling with it, I’ve got a version 2.0
Reading Time: 5 minutes One 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. They insist that an <h1> be any of 16+ million colors. The <img> should have