Shuttle Thread: Meet Shuttle Thread
So we (Laurence Rowe and Jamie Lentin) have just started Shuttle Thread. We've been friends since high school and have kept in touch over the years and exchanged thoughts on the technology we'd been...
View ArticleTaka Designs: Replacing attributes from Plone in your XDV theme
A few months ago at the Plone West Coast Sprint we started to work on a few new themes for Plone using XDV and came upon a road block: How do you replace attributes within elements in XDV? We wanted...
View ArticleAffinitic: Zope – how long does it take to serve a request?
For the moment only a reverse proxy (apache, ngnix) or a browser can show you how long a request took to be processed. For monitoring or debugging purpose you might want to know what zope instance is...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Bitten by .rstrip()
I got bitten by an .rstrip() gotcha that I knew about (but that I also had apparently forgotten). What I wanted to do was to quickly strip the extension from a certain set of files that were named...
View ArticleRick Hurst: Plone Conference 2010 Day 1
Just back home after day one of Plone Conference 2010, with my mind buzzing so thought it would be a good time to write up some of my thoughts and notes. It was really difficult to choose between the...
View ArticlePlumi: Plumi 3.1.1 Released to Final
EngageMedia and Unweb have released Plumi 3.1.1, the latest version of the video sharing platform that is built on the Plone open source content management system. In this bug fix & stability...
View ArticleFour Digits: Plone Conference 2010 Day 1 : A summary
The Plone Conference this year is being held in Bristol, UK. A short summary of the talks of the first day I've went to.We arrived on Tuesday evening at hotel "The Grand", which is also the location...
View ArticleKarl Horak: For the Gang in Bristol
As the World Plone 2010 Conference moves into its final day (exclusive of the weekend sprints), I thought I'd type while the Plonistas in Bristol sleep. OK, it's only midnight over there, so probably...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone Foundation Board Election Results
On Friday, October 29, a new board of directors for the Plone Foundation was elected by the membership. The Plone Foundation board for 2010-2011 will include: Geir BækholtSteve McMahonMatt HamiltonJon...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Wednesday 3 November: Dutch python meeting coming up
Hey all you Dutch folks out there: on Wednesday there's a Dutch python meeting again. It is dead smack next to Arnhem station, so especially for those who think Amsterdam is too far away: this could...
View ArticleRok Garbas: Finally home
Living Statues Sprint My trip started in August (25.8. 2010) when I jumped on the plane to Living Statues Sprint in Arnhem hosted by wonderfull people from Four Digits. Upon my arrival (I was half a...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone Foundation Begins Search for Plone Conference 2011 Venue
While many were still recovering from last week's successful Plone Conference 2010 in Bristol, UK, the Plone Foundation kicked off the process of picking the venue for next year's conference by putting...
View ArticleBlue Dynamics: Plone Conference 2010 - a retrospect
This years Plone conference is now over. It was held in Bristol, UK. BlueDynamics Alliance took part with four partners: Florian Friesdorf (Munich) Peter Holzer (Agitator, Zürich), Jens Klein (Klein...
View ArticlePlumi: Wrapping up the Bristol Plone Video Sprint
We had an extremely productive time at this year’s Plone video sprint. Over the 2 days we had 12 people who participated at one level or another. A number of projects were either begun or moved forward...
View ArticleMock It!: On-the-fly image scales with Archetypes
Ever (used Plone and) wanted to stop worrying about whether your site content has proper image scales generated for them? Here's a bobo traverser snippet that'll generate them on-the-fly: image.py.Drop...
View ArticleAlex Clark: A report on plonetheme.*
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/2917093994/ By now, most of us are familiar with XDV and how awesome it is for theming Plone (or any website). You should also be aware that XDV has...
View ArticleTarek Ziade: Firefox Sync : deploying Python apps on RPM-based systems
The Python Firefox Sync server is going to be deployed at Mozilla in production early next year, on RHEL-based servers. Working on packaging matters in Python, I focused a lot on the best way to deploy...
View ArticleTarek Ziade: MoPy = Mozilla + Python
Python is gaining a lot of traction in many Mozilla projects. From the SUMO and AMO websites, to Socorro and the next-gen Firefox Sync server. I can fairly say that it becomes a mainstream language for...
View ArticleConnexions Blog: Collection Composer Upgraded
We have released a new Collection Composer that makes building and modifying collections even easier. The new Collection Composer allows drag and drop movement of all elements in a collection. Add...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Python Users Netherlands meeting
Rob Gietema: Deco I will talk about Deco and some more of Plone 4. I work for Four Digits, who organized this PUN. Originally four people, now seven. Since a few years we do only Plone. I myself do...
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