Greg’s ramblings

Growing and shrinking

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Two exciting things happening at once !

One, we’re finally getting rid of a bunch of old “stuff” in Magnolia’s main codebase. A very welcome diet, as some of that code has been lying around unused or deprecated for two years or more. It’s also a relief to see that this will incidentally increase our code coverage and/or help making some classes a little more testable. There’s still a long way to go in that area though !

Second, we’re moving a bunch of modules, which have been nurtured internally, to the community space. Watch out for

• In place templating – yes! You’ll be able to edit (Freemarker) templates directly from inside Magnolia ! Support for JSP isn’t impossible, but involved some much hassle (JSPs have to be on the file system) that we decided to leave that as an exercise for the reader. I’m pretty convinced everyone will love the Freemarker support we’ve introduced though. It takes a bit getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, it’s so much cleaner than JSP… <insert bad-taste pun about never coming back>.
• Resources – a simple module that allows one to handle web resources in a separate workspace and within Magnolia. CSS is currently supported, we’re hoping to add support for Javascript and images soonish, making this a one-stop shop for all your layout/design resources.
• Form – build simple forms within Magnolia, and process them. Elegant css-based layout for your forms, a simple API for processing the results.
• Webdav support – still experimental, but we’re hoping to get this to work for DMS, templates, and so on.

Tags: code, modules, templating

Codepress for Magnolia ?

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 12 Comments

I was looking for a simple way to get line numbers in html textareas – amongst other things to edit css, javascript and templates from within Magnolia, making my whole layout activatable/versionable ! – and I just stumbled upon Codepress ! Man, that thing is sweet ! (if you use Firefox, that is)

Unfortunately, their main site (codepress.org) seems down at the moment, and the Google-cached changelog page seems to tell me there’s been no release since a year. Does anybody what the real status is and/or is there’s any alternative ?

Quick update – this is available since Magnolia 4.2, thanks to Federico ! See http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/reference/dialogs/controls.html#CodeEditorControl for details.

Tags: templating