Recently, SDL released the Tridion Reference Implementation, or TRI, to the community. The first edition of the TRI is based on .NET and aims to provide a reference for customers and partners on a preferred approach to an implementation. Traditionally, Tridion has had an open architecture where a delivery implementation (e.g. an MVC framework) was […]
Five years of MVP events
Since the SDL Tridion MVP program started five years ago, there are five people who have managed to be an MVP each year. I count myself in the lucky few who have managed, sometimes narrowly, to still be privileged to be able to attend the events. Each of the five events have been held in […]
Provisioning Tridion in the cloud
It’s been a little over a year since we started the “Tridion in the Cloud” project at SDL. Traditionally, SDL’s flagship content management system, Tridion, was is an on-premise solution. Customers either installed the product on their own hardware or private cloud or with an SDL partner. However, Tridion was the only SDL product was […]
October 4, 2014
The SDL Tridion Reference Implementation
October 3, 2014
Five years of MVP events
Provisioning Tridion in the cloud
SDL Tridion in the Cloud – Tridion Developer Summit 2014
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Earlier this year I presented as lightning presentation at the Tridion Developer Summit in Amsterdam. The even was awesome and really well attended. Here are the slides that I used:
SDL Tridion in the Cloud – Tridion Developer Summit 2014 from Julian Wraith
SDL CXC and Tridion
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Today I posted some slides to slideshare on SDL CXC and Tridion. Just a simple overview of what we have done for Tridion on SDL’s CXC platform.
SDL CXC and Tridion from Julian Wraith
Updated awards
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Finally got around to updating the awards on the site.
SDL Tridion Translation Manager
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The last video of 2013 and I am now starting to really enjoy making them. If only I had more time. So, this one is about Tridion Translation Manager (TTM) the plugin that enables sending content to and from translation with SDL TMS or World Server.
In this edition, I look at the basic architecture of Experience Manager and how it interacts with Content Manager.
MVP weekend 2013
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I *think* I have recovered, although I am really not sure.
So what happened? Well, I would say a lot of fun and games at the latest edition of the MVP meet up. It started late for me after I arrived late on Thursday, driven up to the castle at night was awesome but the final walk was a killer (and also twice the distance it should have been). After an evening of fun, Friday was a day of work and catch up for me. The project I fitted into was the Tridion Context Engine Wrapper (a punchy title, right?). The Wrapper – lets leave it at that, shall we – wraps the new 2013 SP1 context engine with a set of libraries in .NET (following with Java and TCDL) that can be implemented with SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 and the SDL Tridion Content Engine on a delivery website.
Oh so what does that mean?
Well you can do things like this:
<context:Family Names=”smartphone,tablet” runat=”server”> <div>this content will only display on smartphone or tablets</div> </context>
Which is really good because you conditionally act server side for different types of devices; definitions which you create. Awesome huh?
After Friday building documentation we venture out on Saturday to do lots and lots and lots of things. Way too much to really describe but in short it was: Sour Cherry Schnaps tasting, off roading, visiting a lagoon, a guided tour of the city where we stayed (Obidos) and did I forget anything? Not sure… it was just awesome.
In the next of my video series I am going to cover the basic publishing flow from Content Management to Content Delivery. Last time we looked at connecting the server types and this time we are diving into what flows within.
Enjoy!
SDL Tridion Whiteboarding: Connecting Server Types
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Last time I covered SDL Tridion Server Types and this time I have linked them together to make one Content Management and Content Delivery chain. I will expand on this further in the next video where I’ll look at the publishing chain in more detail.
Since April I’ve been meaning to get around to this. Over the years I’ve written a lot of blogs and posts on SDL Tridion, but never really explained the infrastructure of SDL Tridion in allot of detail. Normally I do this via a whiteboard at a customer, but perhaps it transfers to video.
Let me know what you think of my first ever real YouTube video. I tried to get this right about 100 times, even though it is just a few minutes long.
Enjoy!
Thanks for the warning…
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The first email of the day that I opened contained this:
“WOAH! Thanks for the warning!! Is that one of the subjects? Or are you doing 45 mins on that one?”
Written by my colleague Ian (@IanTruscott) in reply to a discussion on what our Innovate session was on, I was slightly offended at first. Not least because he seemed to question that anyone could talk for 45 minutes on that topic alone… Stepping back from his laptop at the pure geekiness that he saw in our slides, no doubt Ian spilt his coffee and stepped on the cat (if he had one, which I think he does not. He looks more like the dog type).
But, in a moment of defiance (yes, I am talking it up to make myself feel better), I am proud to be a Tridion geek and one that will present on Friday, together with my colleague Nuno Linhares (@nunolinhares). Forming the final presentation of the the day, the session that separates once willing participants from the bar/plane/hotel bed/dinner, we’ll talk about SDL Tridion, Amazon and Mongo DB all in one 45 minute action pack roller coaster of a presentation. You must see this, even if it is just to see our demonstration fail terribly – I must remember to pray to the demo gods on Friday morning!