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 CQ5 – OpenCalais Integration

14th Aug 2012 Mateusz Kula

In the massive amount of information available on the Internet it is getting more and more difficult to find relevant and valuable content and categorize it in one way or another. No doubt tagging this overwhelming amount of data is becoming more and more crucial from the SEO and digital marketing point of view as [...]

Managing the CQ5 Cloud

15th May 2012 Przemyslaw Pakulski

The Adobe CQ Cloud Manager allows you to manage the complete Adobe Web Experience Management (WEM) platform in the cloud and offers the advantages, a SaaS model has to offer over on-premise hosting including low entry costs, rapid deployment, easy cetralised access, automatic upgrades and scalability. I’ve recently had a play with the beta version [...]

Adobe CQ 5.5 – new Client Context

20th Apr 2012 Jakub Małecki

Adobe CQ5 gives you some interesting and powerful mechanisms for analysing traffic on your websites and gaining key insights on how it is being used by visitors. Gathering knowledge about your customers is crucial for successful marketing campaigns and serving accurately targeted content. To perform such tasks, Adobe since CQ version 5.3 has in place [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]