I’ve been recently playing with Splunk and I wanted to share the experience I am having so that you too can play with this cool tool. What is Splunk? I think the chaps from Splunk explain that the best… Splunk is the engine for machine data. Use Splunk to collect, index and harness the fast [...]
At the recent MVP meeting in Lisbon, where a collection of 11 community members get together to talk about components and schemas from dawn till dusk, I volunteered to run a series of online community webinars. So in November we’ll see the first of these sessions which we hope to repeat over the course of [...]
Code, surfing and why you shouldn’t fly with TAP! On Thursday the 2011 MVP weekend started with 11 of the 15 MVPs, or Most Valued Professionals, flying in from across the globe to hotel by the sea near Lisbon (technically, some of the 11 are community builders which are a sort of MVP for SDL [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dominic Cronin has release the Tridion Practice Project which is a is a community collaboration cookbook
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…
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 [...]