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Keeping MODX Relevant—Part Three

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Sun, 5 Jul 2015 15:36:00 +0000

A discussion covering the question of persistence in the next releases of MODX and current progress on relevant initiatives.

Keeping MODX Relevant—Part Two

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:32:17 +0000

What success MODX has achieved over the past ten years is, in my opinion, entirely due to two core tenets that the community has always stood behind. Those ideals are modularity and extensibility.

Keeping MODX Relevant—Part One

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:01:31 +0000

It’s been over 10 years since Ryan, Raymond, and myself founded the MODX CMS project and a lot has changed in the world of both content management and web development in that time.

PhpStorm

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:22:00 +0000

JetBrains—the makers of IntelliJ IDEA—have unsurprisingly created the only PHP development environment worth paying for a license of.

Teleport

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:24:00 +0000

Developed from the technology behind MODX Cloud's snapshot features, Teleport is an extensible scripting toolkit that features some very powerful packaging tools for creating distributions of all or part of a MODX site.

MODX Revolution

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:24:00 +0000

Winner of 2013 People's Choice and 2012 Critic’s Choice for Best Open Source CMS, MODX is a powerful and flexible content management system that molds itself to your design. MODX is creative freedom. Find out why CMS Critic and countless others around the world choose MODX.

xPDO

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:24:00 +0000

xPDO is a light-weight ORB (object-relational bridge) library that works on PHP 5, and takes advantage of the newly adopted standard for database persistence in PHP 5.1+, PDO.

Finding Your Way without Wayfinder

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:50:00 +0000

I knew there had to be a simple, efficient, and effective way to build nested menus using getResources instead of Wayfinder, and I finally figured out a way. With this discovery, I'll likely never use Wayfinder again.

The Benefits of Using xPDO over SQL

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:21:00 +0000

There are a number of benefits to using xPDO instead of writing SQL directly against the database.

Property Pre-Processing in MODX Revo 2.2

jason.coward@gmail.com (Jason Coward) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:02:00 +0000

A new feature in MODX 2.2 allows Elements to define if tags in default property and property set values are pre-processed. This allows values provided to Elements in this way to use tags in values that are processed before being used by the Element, the same way it would be if the tags appeared directly in the Element tag string.