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For those of you that attended dotCMS Boot Camp this year, you may have caught my presentation Creatively Common, looking at how to build your own light weight version of Flickr in dotCMS (or any kind of asset repository, really). As promised, I wanted to release that code to everyone for your own use or [...]
Continue →We’re migrating to GitHub!
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The public release beta of dotCMS 2.0 has been out since March. Prior to that, the current stable version, 1.9.5, was released. This month, they also made the long anticipated move away from traditional SVN over to Github. Needless to say, 2012 has been busy, and the 2.0 release has been a long time coming. [...]
Continue →Phone Number Formatting Macro
If you’ve ever had multiple people entering phone numbers into a field, you’ve no doubt discovered the varied formats they can provide. Perhaps you’re already enforcing field validation on it, which is a pretty good solution for the most part. But also, maybe you need to reformat that number for a page or get old [...]
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