I am a visual learner so whenever I have a new technology that I want to get up to speed on I usually turn to YouTube. YouTube is not only the best place on the web to find off the wall videos of folks blowing things up in their backyards, it’s also a great resource […]
MODx Content Management System
My partner Greg Smart and I have been evaluating the MODx CMS on a couple of our clients websites. So far we have really liked the framework. Greg has spent a considerable amount of time working with it, a lot more than I have but I plan on getting into it a little more this […]
MODx | EventCalendar
While browsing through the MODx Repository for Snippets of Code that were contributed by other developers out there I ran across an app that I am sure we will use down the road on a client project, it’s the EventCalendar. This integrates an Event Calendar to a MODx project by just adding a little bit […]
MODx Repository
I stumbled across this section of the MODx support website this evening and spent a little bit of time looking at what all is out there in terms of plugins. There are three plugins that are highlighted and probably 3 of the most commonly used snippets or plugins. This repository is constantly being updated as […]
MODx Chunks & Snippets…
There are two terms that keep coming up as I research out MODx, they are Chunks and Snippets. Below I am going to do my best to describe what the function of both is inside the MODx environment for the sake of journaling my learning as I go along, MODx Chunks These are pieces of […]
MODx | Anti-Spam Email Plugin
If you have ever had your email address published on a website you know first hand how annoying the spambots can be. These spambots cruise the web looking for email addresses that can be harvested and added to spam databases. There are several tactics that a web developer can take to try to curb or […]