Shannon Sumner – Senior Technical Consultant

About eight years ago, I was introduced to Docker during a meetup at a restaurant with a coworker. He was so engrossed in discussing the Docker engine and containers that he barely touched the hors d’oeuvres. I was skeptical.  I was familiar with Virtual Machines (VMs) and appreciated the convenience of setting up application servers […]

The official Adobe tutorial for setting up a local AEM development environment requests the reader to install Java JDK 11 for AEM 6.5 and above.  It does not provide a download link for the Java JDK 11.  If you were to do a quick Google search for “JDK 11 download,” you would be presented with […]

Webpack is an amazing bundler for JavaScript and, with the correct loader, it can also transform CSS, HTML, and other assets.  When a new AEM project is created via the AEM Project Archetype and the front-end module is set to general, Adobe provides a Webpack configuration to generate the project’s client libraries. Introducing Vite Vite […]

I enjoy building websites using the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) content management system. I also enjoy using JavaScript frameworks like Vue, React, and Angular to create rich web applications. Occasionally I get to do both. AEM provides a SPA Editor to facilitate building components for single-page applications. The SPA Editor enables front-end developers to produce […]

Content Management Systems and Templating In the past, I have worked with various Content Management Systems, including Drupal, which utilized the Twig templating engine to generate the HTML for web pages. Twig shares many features with HTL, the templating language used in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). While working with Twig templates in conjunction with the […]

“As Maine goes, so goes the nation” is a phrase that at one time was in wide currency in United States politics. The phrase described Maine’s reputation as a bellwether state for presidential elections.  As an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) developer, it is not what proceeds from the Pine Tree State that concerns me, it is […]

In this article, I am going to show you how to use Grunt and Grunt plugins to compile Sass into CSS, minify CSS, add CSS source maps, merge JavaScript files, minify the JS, and add JavaScript source maps. We will be using Bower to add vendor JavaScript libraries to our project.  Before I show you […]

Chad Johnson’s recent observations on Google’s Cloud Vision API led us to start thinking of ways the image recognition software could be utilized within Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).  Automatic asset tagging immediately sprang to mind.  This solution reduces the burden on the end user in manually identifying and tagging the assets with relevant metadata.  Google’s […]