The SDL Tridion PowerTools are now to receive a long overdue update and rebuild. The PowerTools are there to help with those little or essential tasks in SDL Tridion. You can see more on the Google Code site.
White and Fluffy makes a Cloud…
Sadly, “The Cloud” is a term much abused these days; much like the word “Hoover” which apparently, in the UK at least, applies to any vacuum cleaner whether or not it is actually a Hoover. Everyone and anyone seems to label their service with the term Cloud so long as it appears like it might…
Measuring SDL Tridion Usage with SQL
If you can’t manage what you can’t measure, then it makes sense to start measuring any SDL Tridion environment so that you better understand what you are doing with your environment and help predict the future. I’ll get onto measuring what you publish and how often at a later date but I recently looked at…
Fall in Love with SDL Tridion Publishing – Part Two
A while back I wrote about how to fall in love with publishing in SDL Tridion. It’s true; you will fall in love with it when it is working well. In the article I describe the more end user aspect of publishing but typically there are allot of aspect to publishing that the end user…
Announcing the Tridion Practice project
Dominic Cronin has release the Tridion Practice Project which is a is a community collaboration cookbook
Community Builder Award 2011
From SDL, I got a Community Builder Award for 2011. Like an MVP but for employees I am proud to get this, I hope I can continue the work I have done and then some more…
Event Systems in SDL Tridion 2011
As I mentioned in one of my previous post the event system has been revised to me more modular and, probably more importantly, to be native .NET. An event, an action from a user, triggers the event system which is one or more .NET classes which will act upon this event in some way. In…
Five things you must know about SDL Tridion 2011
It has been released and I decided to list out five things that I think are very important to the release of 2011. Mostly talk has been about the new Content Manager Explorer (and it’s cross browser functionality) but this is just the surface. Underneath there are many changes of which just five is a…
I love SDL Tridion
Now it will not come as a surprise to many of you that I work for SDL WCMS (as a Technical Account Manager) and I have been working here for almost 8 years. In that time I have seen 11 versions of the SDL Tridion Content Manager platform of which the new 2011 version is…
Not Just Another Tridion GUI Extension
Not Just Another Tridion GUI Extension… you’re not joking at all!