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Do you manage your publication's videos through YouTube? Tired of the additional work required to get them setup on your site? Tamberra has crafted a solution that talks directly to the Youtube API and eliminates additional newsroom work of adding every video to the backend...
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PHP SOSE Example
I promised a blog post giving PHP examples of the SOSE (Saxotech Online object) in the comments section on this page a few weeks back. Here it is!
The official documentation is a little light on PHP examples for the SOSE scripting object. We...
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Intro
I've worked on many CCE implementations with complex hierarchies built into the CCE types metadata. We want to push the user to select the proper values based on the hierarchy. This is a better UX and eliminates human error which also can shorten the time...
Posted at 00:48h
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Oh, documentation: The first thing that gets cut when timelines shorten, the last things developers want to write, and the first thing we need when picking up a new project or joining a new team.
There are always extremes. The minimalist says, "The code IS the...
Posted at 00:18h
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I try to stay active in the comments sections on Saxotech's wiki. Whenever I learn something new or find something in the docs that didn't work exactly right, I post it in the comments. I appreciate when other developers in the Saxotech/Newscycle community...
Posted at 23:58h
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We created a solution a couple of years ago to give a client more control over the content exposed on the homepage. I am sharing it in this blog post in hope that it may spark creative ideas on...
Posted at 23:47h
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Many saxotech tags output a list of objects: newslist, contentlist, links, etc. The object files that create the markup for those tags have a concept of a wrapper object file and item object file. For example, the newlist tag's wrapper file is news.pbo and its...
Posted at 23:06h
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I was researching building a tag cloud for our blog on this site. I had worked with Saxotech on one many moons ago that utilized a stored procedure in the db and the custom query functionality provided via online tags. You can find a version...
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In any development team of a size greater than 1, it is best practice to document your code. At Tamberra, we have worked with many development teams on Saxotech templating, ranging in time from weeks to years. It is often times consuming to first understand...
Posted at 18:12h
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When we need to make blocks of test data fast, we use dummy text. In the past, using Lorem Ipsum was always the go-to. However, in the past few years many sites have popped up that allow you to generate a different form of Lorem...