Reading Time: 2 minutes I’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 tiny sector of an industry that I’ve been active in for 11 years.
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.
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: 7 minutes It’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 how to build static websites within a few weeks —and there’s scores of books and blogs
Reading Time: 5 minutes You’re a front-end developer. You’re writing for a component template. You hand off HTML for a back-end developer to write a view. The back-end developer looks at it, goes cross-eyed and starts muttering to himself. You explain it. He says, “yeah, Tridion can’t do that.” You read my last post; you’d know that there’s a
Reading Time: 8 minutes So, you’re a front-end developer, eh? And you’ve been told that you’ll be writing code, and that it’ll be moved into a Content Management System. Called Tridion. And you can’t find out where to download it because there’s not a version on Github. There’s some random blogs out there, a Stack Exchange, but it all
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a previous post, I talked about some general better practices for writing jQuery plugins that will play nicely in content management systems. Today, I’d like to introduce one such plugin: flexModal.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Not too long ago, I worked with Alex Klock on creating a Tridion GUI extension for a client. The GUI extension was for a document embedding service provided by Crocodoc1. Once I finished, I had to provide a training document for it. Soon after, the client wanted documentation on some other things. And then more
Reading Time: 7 minutes In a current project, we have a website that’s in both French and English which we’re transferring into Tridion 2011, using Razor Mediator. This is not my first bilingual website, and it definitely isn’t my first Razor project, either. However, it’s the first time I’ve had both at the same time. So what I’d like
Reading Time: 10 minutes Every CMS implementation is different, but you can generally categorize them into two major groups, regardless of the details: New site or Lift ‘n Shift. If you’re unfamiliar with the phrase “Lift and Shift”, it’s where we take an existing website, in its entirety, and move it into a CMS without modifying any front-end code.