Make your CQ life easier with Slice

01st Nov 2012 Maciej Majchrzak

Are you happy with your Sling/CQ development? If yes, you’re a lucky guy – you’ve just saved a couple of minutes because there’s no need for you to read this post. You’re still reading this, which means that you want to do your job better, write your CQ applications faster, produce better quality code; or [...]

Adobe Summit 2012 – Salt Lake City report

10th May 2012 Stuart Dean

Back in March, Miro, Ray and I flew out to Utah to attend the “Adobe Summit 2012”. This was the first time that I had been to a CQ event since the “Day Customer Summit” in Basel, way back in 2007 well before Adobe acquired Day so I was quite excited to see how things [...]

Adobe CQ 5.5 – Mobile Improvements

22nd Mar 2012 Jan Kuźniak

I remember that gleam in the marketer’s eyes when Investec demoed the first CQ5 mobile microsite at the Day Ignite 2010 Conference in Berlin. Everyone’s minds were spinning somewhere along the lines of “I’ll flip a switch and get a mobile site! Me wants!”. The appetite and expectations were huge. But on the other side [...]

Mobile in 2012 – Ignore at your own risk!

13th Mar 2012 Jabir Salam

If there is one thing the board always wants to know from their CMO after the CEO heard Mary Meeker (KPCB) talk about Top Mobile Internet Trends at the Google Think Mobile event, early last year, is generally how the group’s mobile marketing strategy is measuring up and whether you’ve cracked the SoLoMo challenge yet. Now, [...]

Integrating Adobe CQ with SiteCatalyst

10th Jan 2012 Jabir Salam

It’s old news that with the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform(ADEP) CQ 5.4, you can easily connect from CQ to Adobe SiteCatalyst report suites by simply entering your SiteCatalyst login credentials and all your basic reports would be available in a jiffy. Plus, you could edit additional parameters using the Page Data tab, map parameters of interest using [...]

Adobe CQ 5.5 – Platform Architecture Refurbish

29th Dec 2011 Jan Kuźniak

This year I got an early Christmas gift: a beta version of the upcoming Day CQ 5.5 – the newest incarnation of the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform. The previous version was released soon after Adobe acquired the product and had but subtle touches made to it. This one seems more like the first stage in [...]

Shared plugin configuration for RTE in components

14th Oct 2011 Łukasz Mądrzak-Wecke

The rich text editor (RTE) is one of the most flexible out-of-the-box component widgets Adobe WEM/CQ delivers. It’s powerful, customisable, looks good and is easy to use. One issue CQ developers might have with it is its configuration. The amount of options available makes it rather complex. Although the widget is quite easy to integrate, [...]

Did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola or more ZMOT insights?

05th Sep 2011 Jabir Salam

   Even though news broke out two weeks ago, the press is still hot about Google’s biggest acquisition till date, i.e. Motorola Mobility. Speculation is rife that the search giant isn’t about to pay $12.5 billion for just the MMI patent vault but stands to benefit from considerable tax savings that will turn a “good [...]

Maven: CRX Plugin automating deployments of CRX/CQ based applications

23rd Aug 2011 Jakub Przybytek

For a couple of years now, here in Cognifide, we have been successfully using CQ5 from Adobe (formerly from Day Software) in most of our projects. We’ve benefited from its rich functionality, stability and general market oriented approach. During those years, we have also developed our own frameworks, practices and production cycles that suit us [...]