Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve complained in the past about how I don’t like application architectures being led by the front-end team. Rather than complain some more, I want to talk about how front-end developers could meaningfully participate in the architecture of a project — particularly the CMS part. I want to talk about how front-end developers can be

Reading Time: 3 minutesYou’re doing your thing: Writing some markup for some Drupal template. Turns out a lil’ part of your template uses something coming out of a Drupal module. Like maybe Fences is just trying way too hard and you need to… not do that. At all. So. How would you override this one little template for

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m very sad to announce that January 14th will be my last full work-day with EXLRT. On January 17th, I’ll be joining Red Hat as a Senior Drupal Developer. So I’m not just leaving my company, I’m leaving a little tiny sector of an industry that I’ve been active in for 11 years.

Reading Time: 5 minutes“Headless CMS” is all the rage these days, and for good reason: It’s easier to build the UI the way you want. Your front-end team doesn’t need to know anything about the CMS now, right? Wrong. Headless doesn’t mean clueless.

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software” Settling on the topic was easy enough, but then we

Reading Time: 4 minutesOh man, 2018 has been a wild ride. With less than an hour left on the clock, I’m going to do my best to sum up a year worth of professional and personal experiences.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is another in a series that’s based off of my presentation at the Tridion Developer Summer this year on Tridion and Node.js. My two previous posts covered why Node.js mattered with Tridion, and how Node would work as a content API. What I want to talk about, briefly today, is what you can do

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis issue came up recently with a client: “This text has loads of inline styles. I didn’t think the RTF field would allow inline-styles.  How’d that happen, Frank ‽” “Well, it’s copy-pasta; someone copied some text from somewhere and didn’t strip out the styling” “Can we prevent that?”Well, if you’re comfy with adding some XSLT

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is inline with a small series of posts I want to write as a follow-up to my presentation at the Tridion Developer Summit this year on Tridion and JavaScript. In this article I want to discuss some specifics of using Tridion and Node together, where Node is used to provide a Rest API. We’ll

Reading Time: 4 minutesA few months back I had the opportunity to speak at the Tridion Developer Summit. You can go through my slides, or watch my presentation first, if you’d like. What I want to do is expand on many of the different points that I made during my presentation. It’s hard to cover all of my thoughts in