2018

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Anyone who knows me knows that I have a bit of a thing for languages. I like studying them and I like speaking them. But I also like learning how they…work. A few years ago I read a book called, The Secret Life of Pronouns which got me interested in sentiment analysis. The central thesis of

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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

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The other day I had a fun conversation with a friend and one-time co-worker, Wes Ruvalcaba. We were talking about CSS Grid and the fr unit and how it didn’t quite behave the way (I) expected. Wes and I got to chatting a bit more about our wants and complaints about CSS, and this lead

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Reading Time: 9 minutes In July of 2015 I had the opportunity to participate in the first ever SDL Hackathon. The rules were relatively simple: Pick an SDL product, do something cool with it. In recent months I’ve been learning quite a bit about the Canvas API, an interface that’s part of the new HTML5 specifications. So, I decided

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Recently we’ve been working with DXA 1.6 and Audience Manager in a Web 8.5 implementation. We’ve had trouble getting our contacts to save. Now we know why it wasn’t working.