Davide Moro: Sqlite array type and Python SQLAlchemy
I need to write up things just for remembering how I solved a particular issue if occurs in the future.Sqlite (with http://sqlitebrowser.org) is great for rapid prototypes development but it lacks some...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Too many ways to do async tasks with Plone
Triggering asynchronous tasks from Plone is hard, we hear. And that's actually quite surprising, given that, from its very beginning, Plone has been running on top of the first asynchronous web server...
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Connexions Developers Blog: How We Build the OpenStax College Books
In case you are not familiar with OpenStax College (OSC), it is a part of our OpenStax family that publishes free, open, peer-reviewed, commercial quality textbooks. The initial goal is to create...
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Six Feet Up: How to use Diazo for Plone Theming
This post is a summary of the video training embedded above and at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68mEBx6G7osWhat is DiazoDiazo is a theming approach for various content management systems. It allows...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Safe evaluation of math expressions in pure Python
This blog post discusses how to evaluate user inputted math expressions safely in Python without using any third party libraries.E.g. the user can writea + max(3, b) / c… and then you run this on the...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Eric Steele: The state of Plone 5
What is happening with Plone 5? This year there have been a lot of sprints this year, sometimes even with thirty or forty people at the same time.What is Plone doing to make my life easier?Currently,...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Daniel Jowett: Journeys with Transmogrifier & friends
I have been doing software since 1997. Background in C, Jave, SQL, etc. Using Plone since 2008. Cam to Plone conference in Bristol in 2010 and everyone seemed to be cleverer than me. Four years later,...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Víctor Fernández de Alba and Albert Casado: Plone 5 theming...
Plone 5 has a toolbar. On the left by default, but you can move it to the top if you want.New markup, so less Diazo. Updated html of header, navigation, portlets, etcetera.Remember that when styling...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Ramon Navarro Bosch and Rob Gietema: Resource Registries
Current statejs registry, css registry, tools. Register your files in cssregistry.xml and jsregistry.xml. There are limitations. We are missing out:js and css have evolved. No one wanted to touch...
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Six Feet Up: Lineage 2.0 for multisite is Plone 5 & Dexterity compatible
We've seen a lot of activity around Lineage this year and wanted to make sure that before PloneConf we had a fresh new version of Lineage for Plone 4.x and Plone 5. You can now seamlessly migrate...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Matt Russell: Optimising local role security
This talk is about experimental security indexing.What is the problem we are trying to solve? Performing operations on the sharing tab can take very long, for large sites. There are complex hierarchies...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Timo Stollenwerk: The Beauty and the Beast. Modern...
What is the current state of javascript in Plone, version 4.3?Javascript was always a needed skill for Plone developers. Progressive enhancement: the site works okay without Javascript and works nicer...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Nejc Zupan: Turbo-boost your Python development with these...
Development time is a very limited resource. I think that time should be dedicated to coding, and not do things that can be outsourced.Why should you listen to me? I like to be on the water, surfing,...
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Paul Everitt: Faster relevance ranking didn’t make it into PostgreSQL 9.4
Alas, the one big feature we really needed, the patch apparently got rejected.PostgreSQL has a nice little full-text search story, especially when you combine it with other parts of our story...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Paul Roeland and Sven Strack: Cultural Learnings of...
If you still think documentation is about "how stuff works", you are doing it wrong. There is a lot of software around, people have lots of choices, people being future clients, developers, users,...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Plone Lightning talks Wednesday
Steve McMahon: Plone installation, the futureWhat is the Installer team doing for Plone 5. You can still use your custom buildout, no problem, so your future may still vary.Unified Installer will still...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Jens W. Klein: Big Fat Fast Plone - Scale Up, Speed Up.
I am owner of Klein & Partner, member of Blue Alliance, Austria. Doing Plone since version 1.0.Default Plone is not so fast. Scales great horizontally (so adding machines), but there are still...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Ubuntu PPA madness
I'm going flipping insane. In ye olde days, when I was programming with the python CMS Plone, my dependencies were limited to python and PIL. Perhaps lxml. LXML was a pain to install sometimes, but...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Guido Stevens: The Plone Intranet Consortium
This is a big picture presentation. But don't worry, there will be a demo at the end.United we stand, divided we fall. Plone is in a rough spot. Let's design and build some solutions. Yes, Wordpress is...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Laurence Rowe: Layering web applications on web services...
This talk is about the ENCODE portal, an encyclopedia of DNA elements.I want to talk here about a pattern, not really about the specific technologies involved.I work at the data coordination center,...
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