As Nick Roussakov explains in his excellent post, it is very easy to integrate DD4T and SmartTarget 2014 – at least, no harder than it is to implement SmartTarget on any type of system. If you are implementing the java version of DD4T things are even...
The whole idea of the reference implementation was to make your life (the life of a SDL Tridion developer) easier. But sometimes people make mistakes, and then the end result can be slightly more difficult than it was intended to be. … Continue reading...
By now I assume that everybody has had a little play with the SDL Tridion Reference Implementation, which means the questions are rising for sure. So let me start with spilling some of the guts of the HTML design and how … Continue reading → ...
Want to have a DD4T Application running within 1 hour? Not possible? Today I did that at the first Tridion DD4T training taught by Quirijn Slings and hosted at the Trivident office in Amsterdam. In this course we start at the very beginning and throughout...
In a DD4T implementation, your templates generate data (XML, JSON) instead of HTML. It’s the web application which turns this data into good-looking HTML pages (or so one would hope). One disadvantage of this approach is that it renders the built-in preview...
Have you are ever been in the situation where you need to write your own DD4T templates? I don’t mean views, mind you, but real, modular Tridion templates. I have had to write quite a few over the recent years, for example to generate sitemaps. Sometimes...
After writing my post about having fun with experience manager last year, I think it is time for a small update. This time I’ll keep it short, but we will have even more fun with XPM! I explained the usage … Continue reading → Read the...
I was presenting in a previous post " A Simple Output Cache ", in the form of a Java Servlet filter that was caching requests to DD4T pages and subsequently serve them from cache. In this post I am enhancing the output cache idea to make it more flexible...
The Concept In this post I'll explain how to integrate CAS ( Central Authentication Service ) with Tridion Content Manager. This is a back-end integration, which will allow users with a CAS login access Tridion Content Manager GUI and other back-end modules...