Code review is an unsung hero of software development. It helps to overcome one of the many myopic tendencies we get stuck in with any kind of project, but especially in development: tunnel-vision. Additionally, with a system as vast as Adobe Experience Manager we can forget about some of the more basic things or even …
With the release of Adobe Experience Manager 6.3, you now have access to AEM’s Core Components. This is an open source project of production ready code for some of the common components that come OOTB with AEM. And because it is delivered over Github, it means the developer community is welcome to contribute their own …
It is sometimes useful to know the history behind something. Ankur Ahlawat, of the AEM CQ5 Tutorials blog, put together a simple list of the product history of Adobe Experience Manager (formerly CQ and Adobe CQ). In his list, he outlines when and where it started and some of the major feature points of each …
Did you realize that Maven, OSGi, and Jackrabbit’s FileVault all parse version strings differently? If you’re doing a lot of work with things like Maven releases and OSGi qualifiers, these differences in version number can really bite you, causing problems all the way from building and packaging, through JCR installation and service resolution in the …
Upgrading one version of Adobe Experience Manager (or CQ) to another version can be just as challenging as starting from scratch. Potentially even harder, depending on whether or not you have switched from Classic UI to Touch UI. There is no ‘one right way’ to approach things, as it will depend on what you have …