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Audition: A Web CMS for Bands

May 01, 2006
concrete5 was not my first CMS.
http://andrewembler.com/projects/audition-a-web-cms-for-bands

Screencast: How to build a concrete5 Theme

October 28, 2008
The first concrete5 theme developer screencast.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/screencast-how-to-build-a-concrete5-theme

Improving the Performance of Zend Cache

March 04, 2010
Here's a simple option you can enable to improve the performance of Zend Cache. I'm including code for usage with concrete5, but this option is available to any application using Zend Cache.
http://andrewembler.com/web/improving-the-performance-of-zend-cache

Political Bubbles

October 26, 2007
Build chat bubbles for the American Presidential Candidates of 2008.
http://andrewembler.com/projects/political-bubbles

Creating a Simple concrete5 Wrapper Custom Block Template (Without Duplicating Code)

January 20, 2010
concrete5's custom block templates are powerful - but what if you want the entire functionality of the original block's view template, just wrapped in something else? I'll show you how to make that happen.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/creating-a-simple-concrete5-wrapper-custom-block-template

Build a Single-Page Powered Editing Interface for concrete5 Pages

May 05, 2010
Learn how to build a simple FAQ system from scratch, including a single page interface for listing and sorting entries, a single page interface for editing entries, a page list template for displaying them.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/build-a-single-page-powered-editing-interface-for-concrete5

Optimizing your concrete5 Website for the iPhone

January 16, 2010
Download an iPhone-optimized concrete5 theme, and learn how to automatically display it to mobile Safari on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/optimizing-your-concrete5-website-for-the-iphone

SEO Tip: Force concrete5 Pages to Display at One URL

April 20, 2010
Keep users from landing on concrete5's index.php?cID=xxx pages with a handy, simple snippet of code.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/seo-tip-force-concrete5-pages-to-display-at-one-url

5 Easy Ways to Speed Up a concrete5 Site

January 12, 2010
Eek out some more performance out of your site, without pulling your hair out.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-a-concrete5-site

concrete5 Add-On Developers: Create Your Own concrete5 Demo

May 27, 2010
This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/add-on-developers-create-your-own-concrete5-demo

JavaScript, jQuery and concrete5

May 20, 2010
An introduction to integrating a wide variety of rich JavaScript functionality into the front-end of your concrete5 applications and blocks.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/javascript-jquery-and-concrete5

A First Look at OpenSocial

January 01, 2008
How does it work, what can it do, and what can it not?
http://andrewembler.com/web/a-first-look-at-opensocial

Apple iPad, Private APIs, and a Tempest in a Teapot

April 13, 2010
Programmers lambast Apple for using private APIs in its own software – but where do you think public APIs come from?
http://andrewembler.com/apple/apple-ipad-private-apis-and-a-tempest

concrete5 and the Zend Framework

June 23, 2010
Learn how concrete5 makes use of the Zend Framework, and why.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/concrete5-and-the-zend-framework