80,000 Feet and Climbing

As a followup on my previous post:
The response from CollectionLength is a string value, and this will cause problems when you need to perform calculations with the number.
The solution to this problem is JScript. What not many people know is that the expression between @@<code>@@ or ${<code>} is evaluated as JScript, and this will allow you to use methods like parseInt:...

Many times in your Dreamweaver Template you want to count the number of field values of a multivalued field, or the number of Components in an array.
There is a way to count a collection in the Package, but the documentation regarding the built-in functions available within Dreamweaver templates is not very extensive....

I wanted to share with you the issues that I encountered while installing and configuring SDL Tridion UGC. They seem to occur often, and I hope this speeds up the process when you encounter them as well.
Setting up the Content Delivery Web services
One Content Delivery Web service is setup for the content manager, and one for the websites visitors, and both have a storage configuration setup solely for the UGC database:...

After a long time of silence I will start blogging about the different extension points of the SDL Tridion Content Manager.
Some of them are well documented, others are not, but with all of them there are best practices and issues to solve.
With this series I hope to share my knowledge with you, and help you get started. When you have questions, don't hesitate to ask for help, but please ask them on StackOverflow! Then your question, and its resolution immediately helps the entire community...