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Reading Time: 2 minutesSDL has this spiffy little product called Media Manager. Media Manager is a tool for uploading and managing multimedia assets, and it does a really good job at working with video, in particular. With videos, you could upload a video in just about any format imaginable, and Media Manager would do some magic behind the

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, there’s a thing in Tridion that you can’t do: Copy and Paste components across publications. And it’s kind of annoying. Especially if, say, you accidentally created 50 components in the wrong publication. Now what do you do? Well, what I do is come up with a bookmarklet, to make it like it never happened.

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Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve recently had a bout of philosophy that I can’t quite shake. I like philosophy a lot, and I think we’re all philosophers. I think I picked up that idea in my Ayn Rand phase, where she said, As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTridion’s Experience Manager (XPM) has been a hot topic at Tahzoo recently. Piti Itharat, Shawn Webber, and I have all been talking about some of the “gotchas” we’ve experienced in the front-end of XPM implementations. Especially after a few front-end folks started asking for tips on how to be XPM-minded when writing HTML and CSS,

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re trying to make the DS4T project better. In order to make it better, we need to ask some questions. And what better way to do that than to create a survey for you. Please, take five minutes of your time, and answer this short survey.

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWell, it’s been about 350 days since the last time I reflected on a year. A lot of stuff happened since the Polar Vortex from Hell visited the midwest. Let’s discuss.

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Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago, Dominic Cronin got this wild idea to have a bookmarklet competition with Tridion. The rules were very simple: Make a bookmarklet that does something with the GUI in Tridion. Share it. Well, I’m a fan of JavaScript. And challenges. So I whipped up Pub Up!

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Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Default Schemas 4 Tridion project is my favorite pet Tridion project. And like my other pets, I hope other people like it as much as I do… and they forgive it for shedding so much. A good while back, I was tasked with setting up all the schemas for Tridion, without so much as

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAlmost a year ago, I sent out a quick post that I’d created a Default Schemas for Tridion project on Github.  Because I wrote that post on a Friday afternoon, I didn’t offer many details. But today’s Monday…