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  • 2013 SP1 HR1 - What's in it for us

     
    Hop and skip Thanksgiving, run a left over at Christmas right into the New Year, and wow, where did the time go? Seems like yesterday SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 was just released peaking everyone's curiosity over the new interface, features and improvements...
  • Reflecting on 2014

     
    Well, 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. How did I do, digitally speaking How much did I write? I wrote 35 blog posts this year...
  • The year in numbers

     
    365 days 43 Gist snippets 11 blog posts 18 Tridion.Stackexchange questions 29 Tridion.Stackexchange answers and numerous comments 1 talk at the Tridion Developer Summit Read the full text.
  • Creating custom footprints

     
    After toying with SmartTarget and Fredhopper for a few weeks, I can tell you from personal experience that it’s bloody complicated. Technically, it’s all nice enough, but there are so many (sub)systems involved and documentation and config files are all...
  • A peek into the Broker database with the Content Delivery Web Service

     
    The Content Delivery (CD) web service, aka OData service, can be used to inspect component presentations or other entities in the Content Delivery broker. I sometimes see Tridion developers looking into the MS SQL or Oracle database if they want to check...
  • Tridion & MVC, but not as we know it!

     
    On a recent project, I was asked to undertake a different approach to implementing a website in SDL Tridion using MVC. The application approach is similar to CWA, popular before the arrival of DD4T . Read the full text.
  • A Neat Tridion Trick With the Pub Up Bookmarklet

     
    Just a short while ago, I announced a tiny lil’ Tridion bookmarklet called Pub Up!™. It was a very simple bookmarklet that left you in your current location in your folders, and just took you one publication higher. Well, when I announced this to the...
  • Application Life Cycle Management for SDL Tridion Projects using .NET Tec…

     
    In a Previous Post I covered in a Technology Agnostic way a set of considerations for Application Life Cycle Management for SDL Tridion Projects. In this post I will be using the same terms but using .NET Technologies. In this blog post I’ve selected...
  • SDL Tridion integration with Portal Servers

     
    One very common use case during enterprise implementations is integrating SDL Tridion with Portal servers. There are several approaches out there, this article will show 2 options that can be use perform such integration. Integrating with Portal servers...
  • How to create SDL Tridion Contextual Expressions

     
    Contextual Expressions are intended to be created from external systems like CMA. In this blog post I am showing a basic method to create Contextual Expressions (Expressions Target Groups) without the need of CMA. Expressions Target Groups should must...