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  • Random Weather: an sample ADF cartridge

    noreply@blogger.com (Jan H)
     
    What better way is there to explain ADF than by an easy to read example: the random Weather Cartridge . The SDL Tridion Ambient Data Framework (ADF) is used for SmartTarget, Experience Manager, and the context engine. Especially for SmartTarget it is...

  • OrmLite SQL Server Example

    Robert Curlette
     
    ORMLite is a great example of a framework that does one thing and does it well. If we’re looking for a efficient and solid way to get and put data in a DB within .Net (or Mono) then the ServiceStack ORMLite micro-orm is a great choice. It was created...

  • SDL Tridion Bookmarklet Challenge Entry - Rename Tridion Item

    r.leggett@building-blocks.com (Rob Stevenson-Leggett)
     
    Way back in August, one of the SDL Tridion MVPs - Dominic Cronin , proposed a challenge to the SDL Tridion community . The challenge was to create a bookmarklet to perform something useful in the SDL Tridion GUI. Read the full text.

  • Vim Windows weirdnesses

    Dominic Cronin
     
    This is just a quick note-to-self to remind me of the stuff I always forget when installing plugins and the like for Vim on a Windows machine. So of course this means gVim. The confusing thing is always that the documentation for everything refers to...

  • Using footprints to preview a personalized site

    Quirijn Slings
     
    Ever since the acquisition of the ecommerce search and recommendation engine Fredhopper by SDL in 2010, the market has eagerly anticipated what the result of this merger would mean for them. The combination of Tridion and Fredhopper was released in 2011...

  • Bookmarklet: Get Schema ID and Title

    Robert Curlette
     
    After my first entry to the Tridion Bookmarklet Challenge , to count items in the Dashboard , here is my second entry: View the Schema ID and Title for a selected Component. Drag the below box to your Bookmarks toolbar. Warning: The first time you use...

  • A handy documentation bookmarklet

    noreply@blogger.com (Jan H)
     
    The bookmarklet challenge on Tridion Stackexchange inspired me to try my JavaScript skills and write my first bookmarklet. This bookmarklet is very Tridion related, although not really enhancing the Tridion GUI Is shared the compact bookmarklet on gist...

  • Bookmarklet: Tridion Count Items in View

    Robert Curlette
     
    Have you ever wondered how many items are in this folder or Structure Group and wanted an easy way to count them? In the good bad old days of IE6 and Tridion 5.x we could see the amount of items selected in the status bar at the bottom of our browser...

  • An alternative to preview in DD4T

    Thijs Borst
     
    Quirijn Slings wrote a post about previewing pages using DD4T and a Configuration file. There is an alternative for configuring previews. In the preview TBB there is a hidden feature (nobody blogged...

  • An alternative to preview in DD4T

    Thijs Borst
     
    Quirijn Slings wrote a post about previewing pages using DD4T and a Configuration file. There is an alternative for configuring previews. In the preview TBB there is a hidden feature (nobody blogged about it I think) that is looking for a metadata...