Target and AEM: Personalization that Behaves. AEM CQ from a practitioner’s perspective with timeless lessons. Real talk on Adobe Target with AEM, what works, what bites, and how to keep your pages calm while they adapt to each visitor. Dialogue: the marketer, the developer, and the page that keeps flickering…
Year: 2015
Privacy, Consent, and First-Party Data with Unomi
What does privacy look like when your site wants to remember people but your visitors just saw Apple talk about content blockers at WWDC and every EU site flashes a consent banner the second you land on it. Is there a way to keep personalization alive without sneaking around behind…
Integrating Unomi with a CMS
Two coffees in, our homepage still looked the same to everyone. The brief was simple. Show a different hero to returning visitors who checked pricing last time. Our CMS could do the usual tricks and a couple of plugins promised magic, but none of that felt like a steady way…
Optional in Practice: Null-Safety without Drama
Why are we still tripping on null? Null pointer is still the top crash in production logs. We have better servers, fancier build tools, and yet a tiny ghost sneaks in and flips the table. Java 8 gave us Optional. Not as a silver bullet. As a seatbelt. The point…
Flaky Tests: Diagnosing and Fixing
Flaky tests have a way of showing up right when coffee runs out. Picture this. It is late, the pull request is merged, Jenkins goes green, and the team chat posts the celebratory emoji. Ten minutes later the same build turns red on a re run with no code change….
Interoperability on the JVM: Practical Pitfalls
“Interoperability is where bright ideas meet old decisions.” Working on the JVM feels like living in a crowded apartment with great roommates who forget to wash the dishes. You get Java 8 lambdas, a bit of Scala sugar, some Groovy tests, maybe a Clojure script to poke a service. Everything…
Bundles, Lifecycles, and Services with Felix
Bundles, lifecycles, and the very practical side of Felix What problem does Apache Felix actually solve? If everyone is talking about containers and tiny services, where does OSGi sit? What is a bundle, how does the bundle lifecycle behave, and why should you care about the service registry? If you…
Should you run a dedicated mobile site the aem view
Your traffic is already mostly on phones. The surprise is not mobile itself but how quickly it is changing what we ship. So do you spin up a dedicated mobile site or go one site for every screen. Here is the AEM view from the trenches. Google just rolled out…
Modeling Content Types for JCR
What makes a good content type in JCR? Not the fanciest diagram. Not the biggest list of fields. The best models start with the questions your authors and apps need to answer. If you are on Apache Jackrabbit or AEM or Magnolia or Hippo CMS, the gear is ready. The…
Stubs, Fakes, and Mocks in Java
Stubs, fakes, and mocks are the unsung helpers behind green bars in JUnit. They keep tests fast, focused, and fearless. If your tests feel slow or fragile, odds are your doubles are doing the wrong job. Java 8 is rolling across teams, JUnit 4 is still the default, and Mockito…