Almost 830 days ago I started working for Hippo. And today is the last day of my work. I’d like to thank all my colleagues for helping me when I was going through difficult times, teaching me some cool stuff and generally bearing with me and tolerating me for the entire period. I think I [...] Read more – ‘Good Bye! Hippo!’.
Categorizing and presenting large volumes of documents is a big challenge. Content can be organized into 3 different models - Using Hierarchies (organized into folders), Using Categories (attaching taxonomy category to a document) or by Using Tags. These three organization models in turn can serve as navigational models as well. When the content size grows larger these models hinder the accessibility of the content. This also affects the discoverability of the content, of course searching is an option but search itself cannot be considered as navigation since the users needs to be aware of what properties the content has and how to specify the criteria. Faceted Navigation solves this problem by providing a way to access the in series of refining queries. The users can drill down and access the content the way they want. Hippo CMS, along with HST provides excellent support for creating a faceted navigation of your content. In this article I'll try to explain how you can build your own faceted navigation in your website using Hippo CMS and HST. Read more – ‘Faceted Navigation with Hippo CMS and HST2’.
When you are using Hippo CMS, the content and presentation logic are clearly separated. This cleaner approach to content management allows the developers to publish the content to various channels without much effort. In this post I'll try to explain how you can publish the same content from CMS and serve it using HST2 to different channels - Web Sites, Mobile (iPhone), iCal format and Layar (Augmented Reality Browser). Read more – ‘Multi Channel Publishing with Hippo CMS and HST’.
The current status is that the WebDAV addon has default support for the Hippo assets folder. This was actually quite easy to develop. This can also be used to copy all assets from a CMS 6 instance directly into a running CMS 7 instance. All other folders are not WebDAV enabled yet, but I have [...] Read more – ‘→ Hippo CMS 7 WebDAV Support’.
The next tag/version of Hippo CMS will have an updated image browser. The images can now be displayed both as List or a Thumbnail Grid, see the screenshots below. The Grid View is implemented using simple css and ul tags. Here’s an example of the HTML/CSS that is used to convert a ul with images [...] Read more – ‘Hippo CMS Image Browser Update’.
A quick update on Easy Forms plugin for Hippo CMS – it is now updated and compatible with latest Hippo CMS Release 7.3. The 2.0 version artifacts are now available in the forge maven repository. I’ll provide the details on how to configure and create the Easy Forms in a following post, though it is [...] Read more – ‘Update: Easy Forms 2.0 for CMS 7.3’.
The Related Documents plugin for Hippo CMS allows the editors of the documents to select “related” documents of the current document. The plugin provides automatic suggestions using Similarity Search and Referring documents. Also, the document editors/authors can hand-pick the related documents. The plugin is now updated for CMS 7.3(released last week). You can get the [...] Read more – ‘Updated: Related Documents Plugin for Hippo CMS 7.3’.
Finally I got sometime to move the Smart Console project out of sandbox. The project is now hosted at Hippo Forge. There are two things that are aimed with this project . One – to provide a simple, user friendly JCR Explorer and Console for any repository. Obviously, I’ll add Hippo Repository specific features to [...] Read more – ‘Smart Console now on Hippo Forge’.
Yesterday I joined the hippo professional services team for a fun filled team event with go karting evening and the first ever Golden Hippo Award event. The evening started with go karting fun, we were competing with each other. This was the first time I ever did this, I failed miserably in the qualifiers. Clearly I’m [...] Read more – ‘The First Golden Hippo’.
