About John Winter

Over the last 15 years, John has lead over 50 SDL Tridion implementations for major clients including, Alliance Data, Viking Cruises, Lexus, Dunlop, Dexia Bank, Toyota and SKF. John manages the USA side of Content Bloom, undertaking a variety of tasks including consultancy, development, architecture and trainer.

2018 Tridion Developer Summit

tds-logo-1The Tridion Developer Summit (TDS) is an annual developer conference for all things related to the SDL Tridion Content Management System.   It’s a two day event full of workshops and presentations from the best in the SDL community so it’s an absolutely must attend conference if you’re working and developing with Tridion… there’s a lot of drinking involved too!

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Mass publish content as individual publishing jobs

publish_wordWhen mass publishing content from Tridion, the publish job is handled as a single transaction.  Using the Alchemy Page Publisher plugin it’s possible to perform this task but create single items for publishing.

After the jump I’ve created a short video to demonstrate this functionality.

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Dynamically Generate SDL Tridion Documentation

Document CreatorWe’ve been quietly releasing some new plugins over at the Alchemy Webstore.  As part of those releases I’ve made some quick demonstration videos as it’s far nicer to watch a video showing how to use a plugin than reading the description :)

To crack things off, after the jump we have the first in the series dedicated to generating Tridion documentation automatically.

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Finding duplicate binaries in your SDL Tridion Publication

duplicate filesThere’s been quite a lot written about Duplicate Binary Issues in SDL Tridion.  A couple of years ago I released a PowerTool to solve this issue.    Knowing it can still be troublesome for some SDL Tridion users, I decided to give it a little rewrite and release it as an alchemy plugin.

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Updating list: Anguilla Code Snippets

anquillaI’ve been keeping a little notepad file on my machine for a while some of common code snippets that help when building SDL Tridion Gui / Alchemy extensions.  I thought it would be great to share them with the community in the hope that they can help someone, and others can contribute.

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