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Confessions of a Failed Technical Communicator: #techcomm #XML #DITA #contentstrategy

Really, Father, my only sins are beer, donuts, beer, donuts, not knowing DITA, beer, donuts…

“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned! I am a failure in technical communications.”

OK, perhaps in many eyes, I haven’t been a failure in technical communications. It will be five years this spring since I graduated with my Masters degree in Professional and Technical Communication from NJIT. In many ways,…

TechCommGeekMom reviews 2014 - So, how was it? #techcomm #elearning #mlearning

This was part of the Chiluly exhibit that was at the Botanical Gardens while I was at the STC Summit in Phoenix, AZ. It was cool!

As the year 2014 winds down, many have summarized the past year, as a reflection of all that has transpired.  When I started to think about the past year, I wasn’t sure that it was all that great of a year at first, but the more I thought about it, I realized that…

It's a good thing. (Career-wise, that is...) See what I'm talking about here: #techcomm

See, even Martha Stewart needs to take time on her social media accounts.

I know I haven’t been on my blog all that much. What can I say? Life gets in the way. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve had a busy summer, and it is shaping up to be an even busier autumn.

“Why would that be, TechCommGeekMom?” you may be asking. I’m glad you asked.

Work has picked up quite a bit, in a good way. I’ve spent a large…

If you happen to use timewarp on a page that has never been published before (i.e. a page with no version history, yet) you can run into an interesting problem - no Sidekick!  Suddenly, your Author instance looks a lot like a Publish instance.  Only, you are sort of stuck...

I recently switched from CQ 5.6 to 5.6.1. Next thing I know, my java code won't compile.  I get some really long stack trace that seems to have nothing to do with anything... Well, after a bit of searching around, I came across the following:

http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__o0nw-i_created_anosgibu.html

and, for further information on the specific Java issue at hand, came across this:

https://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2012/05/07/understanding-subtle-new-behaviours-jdk-7

Adding: "-XX:-UseSplitVerifier" to the CQ start script resolved the issue.

If you need to write a servlet in CQ5, say to handle form submission or something, you will undoubtedly have turned to your CQ5 Advanced Training guide (right?) or used your favorite search engine to find how-to help on the interweb... You may have noticed that almost every tutorial has an example servlet path that looks like one of the following:

<form action="/services/mycompany/ShippingDetailsServlet" method="post"> or

<form action="/bin/some/example" method="post">

Then, when you try to create one yourself, you use something like:

<form action="/mycompany/myservlet/" method="post">

(i.e. something other than 'bin' or 'service') only to get a 404 resource not found error...  Here's how you add custom servlet paths in CQ:

Go to the Felix Console Config UI: http://<your-instance>:<port>/system/console/configMgr

Find the "Apache Sling Servlet Resolver" bundle (I use search)

Click on it

Under "Execution Paths" add a new entry

Add your custom servlet path

(from a presentation I gave at adaptTo() 2012)

An often overlooked aspect of many CQ projects is configuring the side-kick prior to go-live with the components that were meant to show up on the given pages/template types. This workshop will look at several ways to control this at the code level as well as how to configure default component properties.