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Beware the Neglect Trap

The dark corners of the internet and many an extranet are filled with enterprise applications collecting dust. These applications were once viewed as a potential solution to all of the businesses problems, but they have withered on the vine and are now an impediment to doing business every day.

Nov 13, 2018
Architecture, Best Practices, Program Management

Lucky #11: Sling 11 and Java 11 Support

The Apache Sling project just released the latest version of the Apache Sling Starter, version 11. This artifact is an aggregator of the modules making up Apache Sling and is used by many downstream applications as a basis for the "stable" version of the Apache Sling codebase.

Oct 25, 2018
Apache Sling, Adobe Experience Manager, Java

Resource Streams in Apache Sling

This new Resource Filter API allows AEM / Sling developers to be significantly more succinct and readable and how they perform common repository traversals. It's not a pure replacement of JCR queries, but for simple content structures you can do a lot more with a lot less code.

Oct 9, 2018
Apache Sling, Java, Adobe Experience Manager

Achieving Development Tranquility with the Apache Sling Service User WebConsole

Oct 3, 2018
Adobe Experience Manager, Apache Sling, Open Source

Monitoring AEM in Adobe Managed Services with Sling Health Checks

Implementing proactive monitoring of AEM web applications using Sling Health Checks and Nagios when hosting through Adobe Managed Services.

Sep 29, 2018
Adobe Experience Manager, Apache Sling, DevOps

Adobe Insider Tour Part 1: Coming Soon

I recently had the chance to attend the Adobe Insider tour in Chicago and here's my summary of some of the new sneak peaks we saw coming to Adobe Analytics.

Sep 12, 2018
Adobe Analytics, Analysis Workspace, Adobe Insider Tour

Markdown in AEM with Flexmark

Unfortunately, AEM did not provide a mechanism to interact with Markdown content, nor were any of the Java markdown libraries compatible with OSGi. Recently, I worked with the Flexmark team to produce an OSGi bundle version of the Flexmark markdown library.

Aug 30, 2018
Adobe Experience Manager, Apache Sling, Markdown

A Retrospective on HTL: The Wrong Solution for the Problem

I have a confession to make: in my heart of hearts I know JSP is better than HTL / Sightly.

Aug 27, 2018
Adobe Experience Manager, Sightly

Anatomy of the Ideal Background Job

I've seen and written a lot of background jobs in my career and in my experience, they are most common culprits to hard-to-diagnose issues in website operations. This is why, with background jobs, it's even more important than your standard component code to ensure the job executes successfully.

Aug 14, 2018
Adobe Experience Manager, Apache Sling, OSGi

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