Posts Tagged with "Best Practices"

The advantages and strategy for creating flexible Adobe CQ5 Page Templates

Improve the TextImage component by making it cleaner and more consistent

Figuring out what is the current authoring mode in components in Adobe CQ can sometimes be a tricky prospect.

See how easy it is to change the design path on a CQ Component

My summary of three best practices many CQ projects miss

Illustrates why you need to be careful with the Export-Package instruction and in general when setting up a project.

Introduces the new Resource Access tags in the Sling JSP Taglib

Learn about the most concepts most developers have problems understanding when starting to develop on the AEM platform

Learn about how to execute automated integration tests in the Adobe CQ platform

Learn about Six Dimensions' recent contribution to the Sling API of a new hasChildren method

Demonstrates a simple technique for creating HTML templates for Apache Felix WebConsole screens

Promoting the cq:EditConfig an configuration node which allows developers to customize the authoring experience for a component

Talks about levering Tags and Expression Language to improve your CQ Development techniques

Learn how a better way of generating HTML than generating HTML in Java classes.

Compare and contrast Sightly and Handlebars, the new scripting languages available in AEM6.

Improvements and recommendations from my previous post about Integration Testing in Adobe CQ.

Use Eclipse's LogViewer to follow updates in AEM log files right from the IDE.

Learn how Sling Models can make AEM development easier and more fun by replacing spaghetti and boilerplate code with dynamic models.

Learn about how the combination of Six Dimensions and Storycode presents awesome opportunities in the combination of AEM and DPS.

AEM 6 ships with a new repository, CRX3 which is based on Apache Oak, a subproject of the Apache Jackrabbit project. This repository promises significant performance increases over CRX2, however it does require a bit more work to setup. Unlike CRX2, CRX3 requires you to explicitly declare which fields will be indexed.

Three helpful tips on integrating Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

How I manage multiple AEM instances on my development computer.

Discussing the structure and recipe for the ideal Digital Marketing Project.

Excellent design can augment modern digital marketing platforms, here are five tips on how to maximize the effectiveness of your design

A healthy tension is required to maintain balance between the teams in a digital marketing solution, attend my meetup on September 26th, to understand how this fits into the Complete AEM Content Lifecycle

In this post, we'll discuss how to set up configuration values in the AEM Dispatcher to promote clarity and make it easy to compare and sync configuration files across environments.

Using Apache Server Side Includes (SSI) allows you to share content between AEM and non-AEM websites such as header and footers.

Concurrency issues are challenging to identify, but knowing these 2 common AEM concurrency issues gives you a starting place to look to make sure your code is not affected by concurrency bugs.

Introducting the Redirect Map Manager a new tool in the ACS AEM Commons contibuted by Dan Klco of PERFICIENT/digital to help AEM user manage redirects in AEM

A good Product Owner is the linchpin of a successful product delivery. But how do you know what makes a good Product Owner? To be a good Product Owner the individual must be authoritative, protective and knowledgeable.

In HTL many developers create overly complex Sling Model driven components for simple content lists. Instead, using child-component includes you can create complex content-driven components without a line of Java code.

The dark corners of the internet and many an extranet are filled with enterprise applications collecting dust. These applications were once viewed as a potential solution to all of the businesses problems, but they have withered on the vine and are now an impediment to doing business every day.

In many applications, although the application itself has an MVC structure, the application is built as a monolith. Services, libraries, and the application code are all intermingled, making the process of extending or creating a similar application far more difficult than should be required.

As Digital Marketers we are bloated with options for tools and processes and have bloated backsides from sitting at desks all day long. Over the past 3 years I have lost and kept off 80 lbs and have led multiple end-to-end digital marketing transformations.

Relaunching or migrating a website is an intensive process and it's very easy for small issues to slip through the cracks. Here are some things to watch out for I've seen observing and being involved in several dozen migrations over the course of my career

Learn how to configure your AEM repository with code via Apache Sling RepoInit

As developers, we're looking to make APIs that other developers love, but before such a lofty goal, how about making APIs other developers don't hate.

Iterating the AEM repository gets a bad rap. Here's some tips to iterate safely.