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Reusing content with Hippo CMS

It may sound very simple, but it's something we have to keep telling: in Hippo CMS you're managing content, not webpages. Even for a simple site as mine, a document can appear in multiple forms. There's the detail page of a blog post which you may see now. You may have seen the title, date, introduction and tags in the overview or the faceted navigation. It's also very well possible that you read this blog post in Google Reader and you have never seen my website at. Now that's already 3 different ways of showing content of the same document.

Tags: technology, hippo, HST

Show Tweets with HST and Twitter4J

As you may have noticed, my five latest Tweets show up on my site. In this blog I'll explain how you can easily add such a block to your HST site.

Tags: hippo, HST, technology, Twitter, socialmedia

Web development tools I use at Hippo

Earlier this week a customer with its own development department asked us which tools we use for measuring quality and performance of websites. In this blogpost I'll describe some of the tools I use to check the HTML and CSS. I know there are more tools available and it's not a complete list of the tools I use, but I'll cover my most frequently used.

Tags: technology, hippo, development, tools

Components in my blog: Properties component

This blogpost is about the Hippo Forge Properties component. This component allows you to manage labels for your website instead of hardcoding them into the JSP.

Tags: hippo, technology, HST, hippoforge, plugins, cms7

First blogpost in Hippo

This is my first blogpost written in Hippo CMS

Tags: hippo, technology, HST

Generate RSS in JSP? Set the locale!

The RSS pubDate fields contain dates in a format that may be human readable, but not very handy in a programmer's point of view. According to the RSS specification the date must conform to the RFC822 specification. A typical RSS snippet looks like:

Tags: technology, hippo

Generate the robots.txt from Hippo CMS

The robots.txt is a response from your website that is unimportant for your human visitors but very important for search engine crawlers. That's why we created a Hippo CMS / Hippo Site Toolkit (HST) plugin to manage the robots.txt in the CMS and return the proper output.

Tags: technology, hippo, HST, hippoforge, plugins, cms7

Hippo Site Toolkit Query interface and pagination

Today an interesting question came from a developer of one of our implementation partners. He wanted to list items from our JCR repository and use pagination. In this post I tried to make a summary out of the conversation.

Tags: technology, hippo, HST, cms7

I don't want to register before downloading

Okay I just wanted to try the "community edition" of some software. So I clicked on the big download button and then... I had to login. Because I don't have an account yet I had to register first. So I filled in all required field like my email address and a free to choose password without any help message about it's strength and then I got this error message:

Tags: technology, hippo

Hippo developer training

Hippo let me follow the three day developer training for CMS 7 and Hippo Site Toolkit 2 (HST2) by Jeroen Reijn. I don't live inside a cocoon so I knew already which new products had been developed. Until now I hadn't done any implementation yet with Hippo CMS 7 and the HST2 because I was too occupied with Hippo CMS 6 projects. Since I'm also a Hippo trainer it was a good chance to get to know our new training programmes.

Tags: technology, hippo, HST, cms7, development

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