With the plugin architecture in dotCMS launched with the release of the version 1.7 release candidates, several of us are getting started testing out the water. To get things started, I’ve released two plugins this week you can download and install. Nothing huge, but hopefully helpful to some folks.
XMLTool Plugin
The XMLTool plugin creates a view [...] Read Full Story
After some trouble fighting wih OpenJDK vs the Sun JDK, I’m ready to get my brain soaked with information on the upcoming plugin architecture in the 1.6.5c patch here at dotCMS Boot Camp. Note on the previous comment: don’t use Open JDK, save yourself some trouble. If you are interested in plugin development, be sure [...] Read Full Story
Guess what? It’s dotCMS conference time again. Good times. I have traveled well, and am ready to do some liveblogging. For what it’s worth, this year it’s more of a training conference, and I’ll be in the developer sessions. I’ll pass on info as it’s useful, and will follow up in the end with some [...] Read Full Story
Progressive enhancement is a technique of adding features to your web site based on the capabilities of the browser. When a browser doesn’t meet specs, it simply doesn’t get the feature. The key is to make sure your site has base functionality good enough for everyone. There are some examples of this people use frequently [...] Read Full Story
Well, really, it isn’t a conundrum. I’m just being bad, and I know it. But I need some kind of guidance, or another sensible voice to chime in and help me along. My problem is simple: drugs. I’m not saying I’m a crack addict or anything, it’s nothing like that. It’s a very basic, simple [...] Read Full Story
After watching some friends switching to some cooler Twitter backgrounds lately, I got inspired to do similar. The results were… less than inspired, heh. But, everything is better with more TOPHAT!
Anyway, I pretty much designed it from scratch (can’t you tell?), which wasn’t a big deal, but I got to thinking to myself: “Me, wouldn’t [...] Read Full Story
It was long coming and well worth waiting for. On Halloween dotCMS released version 1.6.5, and feeling confident in the code base release, we finally tested and rolled out the upgrade on our production servers (I try not to jump on updates right away, just in case there are any surprise bugs that need to [...] Read Full Story
Some friends and I have been working on starting up an Earthdawn again. In the process of this, I’ve been revisiting some old resources that I used to use, one being the Earthdawn Character Generator originally released at the Lost Papers web site. The current version is 1.3e, and was released back in 2004, so [...] Read Full Story
Just so everyone knows, I am no longer liveblogging tech conferences from here. Instead, that’s all going down at .eduGuru. You can keep up with things from there. So far you can read Day 1 and Day 2.
And since you might have missed it, enjoy Kyle and my’s battle of the Guitar Heroes: Read Full Story
Okay, I caught word today that Idol winner David Cook’s first single is hitting the air. While not generally an Idol fan, I am a big Cook fan. More to the point, I am a big Axium fan, from back in the day before Cook went off on his own and ultimately decided to show [...] Read Full Story
