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  • DS4T++: Now including forms

     
    The 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...
  • SmartTarget tags: from template to page

     
    I recently shared some SmartTarget Gists which show step by step how a SmartTarget region grows from a simple region tag in a Dreamweaver template layout TBB to the fully expanded SmartTarget controls or tags on an aspx or jsp page. What follows is a...
  • Introducing DD4T version 2.0 for Java

     
    Over the past months a number of people have been working hard to beef up the current implementation of DD4T for Java, as was announced during the SDL Tridion User Group Benelux Meeting at Trivident last October. As the work is now in its finishing stage...
  • Random Weather: an sample ADF cartridge

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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...