Archive for September, 2008

Unofficial Reddot CMS blog

I’ve been working with Frederic Hemberger and Markus Giesen recently on putting together a combined blog with Reddot hints and tips. It made more sense to have one larger blog instead of three separate ones.
So.. Go and bookmark http://www.reddotcmsblog.com while I go back to trying to figure out an irritating platformy bit in The [...]

To kill a publication

Thanks to being dragged out of bed at some stupid time on Friday to fix a publishing problem, I was reminded of our wonderous wiki post about killing publishes. I thought it might be a good idea to write a post with all the different ways we know of saving yourself and your server.

See what getting sidetracked does?!

Thanks to those side track posts, Adrian has beaten me to writing some of the articles on my list, plus a few additional ones. Now I need to think of some new ones.
You all know about the “in smartEdit” and “Not in smartEdit” options you have. Adrian explains what to do when you don’t want [...]

Genius seems to work (mostly)

Much as I seemed doubtful in my last post about the new itunes feature, Genius, I have to say I’m actually kind of impressed with its suggestions so far. I’ve run a few tests and it’s returned a nice selection of playlists. The usual suspects are in there, but occasionally it throws in an unexpected [...]

Is itunes 8 going to be a genius, or a dunce?

This evening has seen the installation of iTunes 8 after today’s Apple presentation. The only real reason to upgrade is to play with the new Genius functionality. For those that haven’t seen the speech yet, Genius is supposed to make suggestions of other artists or songs in your library that go with a song of your choice. It also offers [...]

We’ve been Chrome’d

I’ve spent this morning having a little play with Google’s new browser, Chrome. It has some nice ideas in there, but currently the implementation seems less than ideal as almost every site I’ve visited with it has errors or style issues.
I can’t, however, track down whether some of these issues are due to our network [...]

Displaying flash inside SmartEdit

When it comes to successfully implimenting complex Flash (1) inside a Reddot project you’ve two approaches. Either you carefully explain to the client that you may not get to see it working inside smartEdit, or you get the Flash developer to make sure that they develop it in a manner that’s going to work for [...]