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dotCMS 1.9 Upgrade Preview

Michael Fienen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:00:41 +0000

The upcoming dotCMS 1.9 update is still at least about a couple months away from release (give or take), but the current SVN trunk code is already starting to shape up with a lot of the upcoming enhancements. After testing out some of the new code, I thought it’d be worthwhile to share some screenshots [...]

dotCMS Cheat Sheet Released

Michael Fienen — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:12:57 +0000

Hey everyone. Just a quick hello to let you know that I’ve put some work into releasing a dotCMS Cheat Sheet for everyone to print off and use as a quick reference for a lot of basic tasks and variables. This is up to date with the latest 1.7a open source release. I hope to [...]

Help me find a telescope

Michael Fienen — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:42:08 +0000

As a kid, I was an astronomy nut. I wanted to be an astronomer, and was learning all things space. As I grew, I got out of that phase, though I still retained my interest. About six or seven years ago I managed to lay my hands on a serviceable 8″ Meade Newtonian reflecting telescope [...]

Running Multiple Blogs in dotCMS

Michael Fienen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:26:26 +0000

Earlier today, a question was raised on Twitter about how one handles multiple blogs using dotCMS. Out of the box, dotCMS comes with a rather decent blogging system. And with some tweaking, that decent system can pretty much kick the ass of anything Wordpress driven any day of the week. That’s so long as you’re [...]

Two dotCMS Plugins Released

Michael Fienen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:32:18 +0000

With the plugin architecture in dotCMS launched with the release of the version 1.7 release candidates, several of us are getting started testing out the water. To get things started, I’ve released two plugins this week you can download and install. Nothing huge, but hopefully helpful to some folks. XMLTool Plugin The XMLTool plugin creates a view [...]

dotCMS Plugin Joyfulness

Michael Fienen — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:25 +0000

After some trouble fighting wih OpenJDK vs the Sun JDK, I’m ready to get my brain soaked with information on the upcoming plugin architecture in the 1.6.5c patch here at dotCMS Boot Camp. Note on the previous comment: don’t use Open JDK, save yourself some trouble. If you are interested in plugin development, be sure [...]

Oh hai gaiz, Im in Myamee!

Michael Fienen — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:50:07 +0000

Guess what? It’s dotCMS conference time again. Good times. I have traveled well, and am ready to do some liveblogging. For what it’s worth, this year it’s more of a training conference, and I’ll be in the developer sessions. I’ll pass on info as it’s useful, and will follow up in the end with some [...]

Smart Progressive Enhancement with dotCMS

Michael Fienen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:00:43 +0000

Progressive enhancement is a technique of adding features to your web site based on the capabilities of the browser. When a browser doesn’t meet specs, it simply doesn’t get the feature. The key is to make sure your site has base functionality good enough for everyone. There are some examples of this people use frequently [...]

Philosophical Conundrum

Michael Fienen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:31:48 +0000

Well, really, it isn’t a conundrum. I’m just being bad, and I know it. But I need some kind of guidance, or another sensible voice to chime in and help me along. My problem is simple: drugs. I’m not saying I’m a crack addict or anything, it’s nothing like that. It’s a very basic, simple [...]

Twitter Background Templates

Michael Fienen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:20:11 +0000

After watching some friends switching to some cooler Twitter backgrounds lately, I got inspired to do similar. The results were… less than inspired, heh. But, everything is better with more TOPHAT! Anyway, I pretty much designed it from scratch (can’t you tell?), which wasn’t a big deal, but I got to thinking to myself: “Me, wouldn’t [...]