Entries for 'Daniel Mettler'

Whenever you need to evaluate something, the most important thing is determining what will define a winner. See if you agree/disagree, as this criteria will affect the choice of recommended WYSIWYG.

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There are over 100 WYSIWYG editors out in the wild. So it's important to filter them based on the critical criteria (mostly management criteria). Here's the full and short-list.

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Grunt (or Gulp) are a critical cornerstone for modern style web development - without these it's basically impossible to create anything complex. Let me show you some real life examples where we use Grunt in the development of 2sxc. 

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The move to JavaScript applications has a profound impact on the concept of Platform Market-Share. A JavaScript App could run on any kind of host from Apache to Azure - so the only question of compatibility is if the hosting platform (like DNN) has an appropriate JSON-WebAPI to answer the requests of the JS-App. Oh brave new world…

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Here's a little Christmas present from 2sic to the DNN community: we just pimped ADAM, the Automatic Digital Asset Manager.

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A common use case for an app like disqus is to include it in a list/details scenario like a blog, where you only want the discussion items to appear on the details page. Since most such setups use the same DNN page for the list and the details, we need another mechanism to sometimes include this functionality. I present to you: conditional server-views in apps.

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What I really, really love about 2sxc is they way you can leverage existing tools and integrate them into DNN in minutes. Here's what I just did with the disqus service…

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Very often you'll create a custom input-type (like a select-value-from-json-feed) and then want to provide the web-designer with additional configuration options - like specifying the web service which will deliver the json-feed. Here's how…

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The future of the internet is not on the server. The fight around php vs. asp vs. mvc-on-the-server is suddenly irrelevant, because the future for online-systems is JavaScript-Based. What really got me excited is that WordPress.com just redid their entire system to also go this way. Since we just spent around 100 days refactoring 2sxc into this architecture, I will write a bit about this, beginning with some background why and hows…

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There are loads of reasons why to create a custom input type. Maybe you want to create a color-picker or you want to create a dropdown which provides options based on a JSON-feed. No matter what you want - here's how to do it.

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