Reading Time: 4 minutes This has been the craziest year since I’ve begun blogging. Which is why I hardly blogged. Let’s start at the beginning: January For the sixth year in a row, I was awarded SDL MVP. I was surprised. It’s wild to think that I’ve won that award six times on just the merits of running my

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ever 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 to layer something to z-index: 9999 if z-index: 10 will suffice… but how do you

Reading Time: 5 minutes We often spend forever learning the parts of a language, and the application, but we never read enough about how to solve problems when things go wrong. I’d like to spend some time avoiding cool new tricks and fancy features, and instead present a basic process anyone at almost any skill level could follow for

Reading Time: 2 minutes A good long time ago I was on a project where things had gotten off to a rocky start. We’d ended up with a fairly massive stylesheet that, amongst other problems, never set base styles on the “typographical” elements like <h1> or <blockquote>. So my task was to add baseline typographical styles. A subtask of

Reading Time: 4 minutes Oh man, 2018 has been a wild ride. With less than an hour left on the clock, I’m going to do my best to sum up a year worth of professional and personal experiences.

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is another in a series that’s based off of my presentation at the Tridion Developer Summer this year on Tridion and Node.js. My two previous posts covered why Node.js mattered with Tridion, and how Node would work as a content API. What I want to talk about, briefly today, is what you can do

Reading Time: < 1 minute This issue came up recently with a client: “This text has loads of inline styles. I didn’t think the RTF field would allow inline-styles.  How’d that happen, Frank ‽” “Well, it’s copy-pasta; someone copied some text from somewhere and didn’t strip out the styling” “Can we prevent that?”Well, if you’re comfy with adding some XSLT

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is inline with a small series of posts I want to write as a follow-up to my presentation at the Tridion Developer Summit this year on Tridion and JavaScript. In this article I want to discuss some specifics of using Tridion and Node together, where Node is used to provide a Rest API. We’ll

Reading Time: 4 minutes A few months back I had the opportunity to speak at the Tridion Developer Summit. You can go through my slides, or watch my presentation first, if you’d like. What I want to do is expand on many of the different points that I made during my presentation. It’s hard to cover all of my thoughts in

Reading Time: 2 minutes So, this is a quick one: A content author can’t see a schema Their group is scoped to a publication where the schema is located The publication doesn’t exclude the author or the author’s group You cut & paste the schema to another folder, and suddenly the content author can see it