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  • SiteEdit 2009 & JavaScript trickery

     
    Problem Recently I was preparing a demo for a prospect. Part of what I was doing involved making one of their product pages siteeditable. The page in question contained a lot of content, but the presentation...
  • SiteEdit 2009 & JavaScript trickery

     
    Problem Recently I was preparing a demo for a prospect. Part of what I was doing involved making one of their product pages siteeditable. The page in question contained a lot of content, but the presentation was simplified through the use of tabs. The...
  • XSLT templating Tcm Script Assistant

     
    I have to admit I am an XSLT junky. It seems to be useful for almost anything. From transforming Enterprise Architect models to full blown reports or simply adding sequential numbering to data dictionaries. My XSLT skills have proven to be a huge time...
  • Does the US need more SDL Tridion MVPs?

     
    I believe the USA is one of the biggest SDL Tridion markets, but they are running behind on SDL Tridion MVP nominations. Nuno has posted the details at: http://nunolinhares.blogspot.com/2010/10/mvp-nomination-stats.html I am not sure...
  • Can crowd sourcing work for SDL Tridion Community extensions?

     
    Sadly the SDL Tridion MVP retreat is over and we are on our way home after 3 great days and a surprising amount (given the great food, fine port and majestic beach) of talk about the SDL Tridion Community. Thank you SDL Tridion, and especially Nuno for...
  • Three days in Portugal: The SDL Tridion MVP Fondue Kit

     
    It has been an interesting 3 days. On Thursday the SDL Tridion MVPs for 2010 set off to a small forte just outside Lisbon in Portugal for a 3 day meeting of the minds so to speak. The general theme of the retreat has been how build a strong community...
  • SDL Tridion dynamic website performance

     
    During one of my recent Tridion consulting assignments the client asked me about the performance difference between a website using a  dynamic publishing approach vs a static approach . For he had concerns about the performance of dynamic websites. In...
  • Is Word Press a CMS?

     
    Tony Byrne at CMS Watch recently wrote a short piece on using WordPress as a CMS , which got me thinking about the my experience in the world of enterprise class CMS systems. I must admit, I have always been a bit of a snob when it comes to open source...
  • SDL Tridion MVP Awards

     
    So after writing my first blog to discuss the need for an SDL Tridion 2009 Development Environment , The SDL Web Content Management Solutions Division seem to have come up with an answer. Today they announced their ten Most Valuable Professionals in the...
  • Unique binary filenames for SDL Tridion Multimedia Components

     
    The SDL Tridion CMS uses a special kind of object called a Multimedia Component to store binary files managed by a CMS use. Typical uses for these MM Components are images, office documents, pdfs etc. In older additions of SDL Tridion, these were rendered...