Just a quick post to let you all know that the MODX Revolution Beginner Tutorials series has been updated to reflect the changes made in MODX Revolution 2.2. Initially these tutorials were written using Revolution 2.0.x, but MODX has since graduated to 2.2.x.
The series is now up to 11 parts and there are still more installments to come, but to keep up to date, it was important to me to ensure that those who are starting the series now are able to relate what they see on their screen with what is represented in these tutorials.
So what are the major changes that I’ve made that would affect someone who has used or is using these tutorials? [Read more →]
If you closely follow the happenings in the world of MODX you know that Bob Ray’s book MODX: The Official Guide
is now available. I was fortunate to receive a copy of the unreleased PDF a few weeks ago and have been looking through it. Now that the book is available for pre-0rder, I thought it would be a good idea to share my thoughts.
First, I want to say that the release of this book is really exciting and a great step forward for the MODX community. This is not the first MODX book to be published. The first one was written in Japanese and covered MODx Evolution. This was followed later by two books published by Packt that also covered Evolution. I have, of course, not read the Japanese book but have looked at the two Packt books, and I can comfortably say that Bob’s book far supercedes either of the Packt books and is far superior product to either of them, and I recommend it without reservations.
I thought I would take a minute today, take a little detour, and share a resource I’ve discovered recently that is an absolute MUST for anyone who wants to learn and master Drupal. NodeOne is a Scandinavian Drupal shop and they have the most amazing collection of free video and written Drupal tutorials prepared by Johan Falk. Johan is a skilled Drupal-er and an excellent teacher who explains concepts clearly and systematically, and even though I’m quite comfortable working with Drupal I still find myself learning from him. He’s also written a Drupal 7 book – Drupal 7: the Essentials.
So check out the NodeOne Drupal learning library. For the best results, filter by the version of Drupal that you’re interested in and see what pops up. The screencasts are arranged in sets by topic. Here’s a partial list:
Welcome to part 11 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series. Apologies for the delay in the series, I’ve been pretty buried in work and such. In this installment we’re going to continue exploring how to create a page that aggregates content from several different pages using the getResources snippet, such as you would find in a magazine style website, or a blog, or a news website, etc. The aspect we will look at today is how to add pagination to the pages holding our aggregated content, and for this purpose we will be using the getPage snippet. We will continue working on the resource site for learning MODx Revolution that we’ve been building through this series. We’re using the 7 in 1 Business Success Site Template from Themeforest, although you can follow along with any template that you choose. Let’s get started
Just a quick post to let you all know that the MODX Revolution Beginner Tutorials series has been updated to reflect the changes made in MODX Revolution 2.2. Initially these tutorials were written using Revolution 2.0.x, but MODX has since graduated to 2.2.x.
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