Tridion developer articles and tutorials

  • SDL Web 8: Under-the-Hood Changes (Content Interaction Services & Libraries…

     

    The second part of our blog post series already mentioned how SDL Web 8 provides a new Content Delivery deployment model with self-running and self-contained REST-based Content Interaction Services that fully decouple the Web Application from the SDL Web delivery stack.

     

    This decoupling was driven from…

  • DXA past and future, where shall we go next?

     

     We have come quite a long way since the first release in September 2014, I've changed from being a developer, to a technical product owner and now a product manager. The product is maturing with a dedicated team working on it daily, and a wonderful community that does their job in collaborating. Looking…

  • SDL Web E-Commerce Framework

     

    Yesterday the SDL Web E-Commerce Framework was released to Github: https://github.com/sdl/ecommerce-framework. It is a result of various integrations and proof-of-concepts projects I've done in the past, which is now combined into one homogenous framework. 

    So basically is it a framework to enable…

  • Naming Topology Types and Site Types

     

    SDL Web 8 introduces a feature called Topology Manager, which connects Content Management (CM) and Content Delivery (CD) by:

    • Removing CD details from CM (i.e. Publication Targets)
    • Removing CM details from CD (i.e. the deployer configuration seen in one of Nuno's post)
    • Storing these former relationships…
  • Prototypes and Instances

     

    I've explored how you might name elements in Topology Manager. Let's revisit the other "types" in the CMS.

    When you use a Word or PowerPoint "template" it's often not actual Office template (.dotx) but a prototype which has a theme or layout similar to the CMS concept of "template…

  • Work with Razor Mediator in Visual Studio. SDL Tridion Visual Studio Razor…

     

     

    SDL Tridion Visual Studio Razor Extension is a VSIX extension for Microsoft Visual Studio that makes possible to work with Razor Mediator code.

    Main functionality
    • Edit razor code for Razor Mediator TBBs
    • Synchronize *.cshtml files with Tridion TBBs
    • Debug *.cshtml files
    • Create Tridion Component Temp…
  • DXA.Java Kickstart Environment

     

    I have just released my kickstart environment for DXA.Java, which I’ve used in a number of partner workshops and customer demos. This is a all-in-one environment including deployer service, OData preview web service, Tomcat and a ready configured DXA web application. This blog post will describe…

  • DXA HTML design decisions

     

    You all know that DXA comes with a white label HTML design based on Twitter Bootstrap, which you can style according to our own wishes and then publish these changes via the CMS. In this article I will discuss the reasoning behind all of this, and also the different options you have in case you want…

  • DXA 1.2 and SDL Web 8

     

    With the release of SDL Web 8, now everybody of course wants to give it a try, and what would be a better opportunity than to use DXA for that right? Unfortunately when you look in the release notes of DXA version 1.2 (the current and latest release at the time of writing this article) you notice it…