New New Tridion Best Practices

With the release of SDL Tridion 2013, I'll be managing CreateAndBreak with my test 2013 VM.

Just a few content types at-a-time!

Device Preview renders the site nicely as well. 

SDL Tridion 2013 introduces Bundles, which are virtual folders that allow authors the ability to manually group and add items to an organizational item (rather than by search).

Combine this with the Core Service's role as the API behind-the-scenes for the Content Manger Explorer editor and we can create three new best practices:

• Core Services Instead of Templating (One API for everything!)
• The Single-Folder Setup (It's All Bundles)
• Return of the All-in-One-Component (Beyond Content Forward or Page Backwards)

SDL Tridion Lisp Mediator

Long used by Computer Science students and AI researchers, Lisp is one awesome language.

Inspired by Paul Graham's story about Lisp's role Viaweb, an early online store platform, and having recnetly seen Lambda Meme's post on dynamic websites I wanted to wire-up an SDL Tridion Lisp mediator.

I have the basic get-packageitem() and set-stringitem() methods, but haven't implemented Template Building Block (TBB) parameters just yet.

Here's the basic flavor of the parenthetical-and-recursive-syntax that everyone loves from computer science:

(html 
 (head 
   (title (page-title)))
     (body (h1 component-title)
       (div get-componentpresentation(componentpresentation component-id template-id)))))