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: 4 minutes In July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software” Settling on the topic was easy enough, but then we
Reading Time: 6 minutes For the past few years I’ve been writing these, “year in review” things to summarize my full year. This time around, I’m going to review an entire friggin’ decade. Why? Because a lot has happened in a near decade. 2010 In July of 2010 I left a company called Mannatech after working there for five
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: 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: 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 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
Reading Time: 5 minutes So you’re a back-end developer. You write .net or Java all day. You create Schemas and Templates in Tridion. It’s Friday. The front-end developers have signed off early and you just got a high priority bug. And it’s in the CSS. You hate CSS. What do you do?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Front-end developers have enough on their plates. Between the latest CSS modules, the “HTML5” APIs, JavaScript updates, and new frameworks (Angular 2, React), it’s hard enough to keep up. And if that isn’t enough, then there’s the content management systems: Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Sitecore, Adobe, Teamsite, and Tridion. As I’ve mentioned before, Tridion isn’t open-source.