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...
Spam emails from a form on a website can be so annoying and are a pretty common occurrence for clients using NewsCycle Digital. The reason being, that there really isn't a straightforward easy way to add Google's CAPTCHA to a form. NewsCycle Digital has a...
Recently I had a challenge: display YouTube videos, images and links in the info box of a Google Map marker. Previously this wouldn't have been a big deal, but due to changes Google Maps has made, it isn't as simple as it seems. As of...
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...
I am excited to share that StAlbertGazette.com, a site I have been working on for the past year, has won three awards from the Local Media Association. I was part of a team of three people who worked very hard to accomplish the site look...
Set up in the EI The first thing to do is to set up a self-serve section under Taxonomy (Admin -> Taxonomy). You can list all of the different pages here, each page needs its own unique taxonomy ID. In this example, I created a root...
Saxotech contains many different ways to format text output in an object file. What does this mean exactly? Well, for example, the other day I noticed a page layout was broken on a client's newslist page. The editor had added an iframe tag that was...
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...
SERVER SIDE I attended the Saxotech Conference in 2012 and went to a workshop called Effective Template Design. My goal for attending this conference was to find a way to speed up my client's sites. Their code had been written by another developer and my goal...
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...