TeamSite Tuesday

I’ve extended the TeamSite Toolbar so that individual modules on the page can be edited from the front-end.

This is now in production being used by editors, for the 4Beauty site now, and shortly for 4Food and 4Homes.

This was achieved by exposing the module IDs into ID attributes in the HTML mark-up.  The toolbar reads these [...]

I have prepared the TeamSite toolbar described in my earlier post for download and use by others.   Instructions may be found below.

Note: use at your own risk with no warranty or support.  However I am happy to take questions or comments if you have any.  It works nicely on a Linux installation of TeamSite, version [...]

One of the most frequently heard complaints about TeamSite is how difficult it is to navigate.  If an editor knows what page they want to edit, they can sometimes find it time consuming to locate the page within TeamSite’s branch and folder structure.  This is particularly true if the external URL bears little resemblance to [...]

I’ve written an adapter for OpenDeploy, which allows secure deployment over SSH.  An OpenDeploy receiver is not required on the target host – the only requirement is an SSH shell, supporting scp, unzip and rm.

It’s pretty fast.  It works by zipping the files up on the source, deploying the zip, and unpacking it on the [...]

Since I started at Channel 4 a year ago, I’ve had a pet project to solve some of the headaches inherent in TeamSite development.  Here I’d like to share the ideas behind what I’ve done so far, using the Big Brother 2009 project as an example.

This article covers how we’ve got TeamSite project code to [...]