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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
In this Article I would like to share what I think is a workable and efficient Application Life Cycle Management for SDL Tridion Projects. We need to consider the different project stages and SDL Tridion dependencies before we define the Strategy to maximize...
There are plenty of scripting options as well as coding styles involved in a Web Application development. SDL Tridion supports several scripting options that can be configured at 3 different levels, Component Template, Publication Target and Deployer...
A 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...