My Musings

My recent blog posts, webinars and whitepapers. Mostly about technology and digital marketing.

Demystifying Oak Search Part 2: Traversal

Demystifying Oak Search Part 2: Traversal

Traversal is the bane of query performance in Apache Jackrabbit Oak, learn what traversal means and how to avoid it.

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Using Bnd + Maven to Make Wrapping Complex Bundles Less Painful

Using Bnd + Maven to Make Wrapping Complex Bundles Less Painful

How to use the Maven dependency plugin and bnd to dump all of the packages used by the dependencies of a Maven project to make it easier to wrap a library as an OSGi bundle

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5 Maven Plugins to Turbocharge Your AEM Development

5 Maven Plugins to Turbocharge Your AEM Development

There are numerous plugins for Maven which make it easier to work with AEM from the command line, however the documentation for the plugins is sprinkled across a number of plugin sites. Mastering these Maven commands makes it easier and quicker for you to develop code.

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Demystifying Oak Search Part 1: Exploring Indexes with Luke

Demystifying Oak Search Part 1: Exploring Indexes with Luke

Exploring Apache Jackrabbit Oak indexes with Luke

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8 Tenets for Cloud-Scale Logging in AEM

8 Tenets for Cloud-Scale Logging in AEM

The how and the why of logging in AEM to support cloud scale observability

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Understand Leverage for a Successful Career in Consulting

Understand Leverage for a Successful Career in Consulting

Understand leverage and how it applies to your career growth to create an easy to understand path to grow your career in consulting by aligning your personal growth with the goals of your employer

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Unicode Fun with Apache Jackrabbit / Sling

Unicode Fun with Apache Jackrabbit / Sling

Experimenting with using Unicode characters in the JCR

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New Sling CMS Release: Improved Thumbnail Support & Bug Fixes

New Sling CMS Release: Improved Thumbnail Support & Bug Fixes

A new version of Sling CMS, version 1.1.0 was just released. Highlights include improved thumbnail support as well as resolved bugs.

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5 Tips for Getting the Best Consulting Project Assignments

5 Tips for Getting the Best Consulting Project Assignments

There's a paradox in your career as a consultant: which project assignments you get are one of the most important things to drive your career, yet you have little control over what projects you are assigned to. So how do you make sure to get the creme de la creme of assignments?

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Thoughts on REST APIs: Open API v. Hypermedia

Thoughts on REST APIs: Open API v. Hypermedia

Building a great API is much more than picking the right tech, the quality of an API is driven by the quality of the documentation, upgrade path, libraries and the consistency and execution of the API. However, bu chosing the most applicable format you can get a great start and best position your API for the consumers needs.

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Bringing AEM Back to Life with JConsole

Bringing AEM Back to Life with JConsole

How to use JConsole do diagnose a "bricked" AEM instance

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Webinars Galore! Meet me at AdaptTo and Adobe Developers Live

Webinars Galore! Meet me at AdaptTo and Adobe Developers Live

It's going to be a busy autumn! I'm excited to present at two back-to-back conferences this fall: AdaptTo (Sept 27-29th) and Adobe Developers Live (Oct 4-5th)!

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