Maurits van Rees: Summary of Plone conference 2014 Bristol
During the Plone Conference, as usual, I made summaries. You can see them all by checking the ploneconf2014 tag. I do this for you, with pleasure, but also for myself. Now I can read my own notes and...
View ArticleManuel Reinhardt: Reversion Control
Assuming you’re using git for version control, let’s say you’ve merged a feature branch into the master branch of some repository. Then you decide that the feature is not quite ready yet after all, and...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Morepath 0.7: new inter-app linking
I've just released Morepath 0.7!What is Morepath? Morepath is a Python web framework. It tries to be especially good at implementing modern, RESTful backends. It is very good at creating hyperlinks. It...
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Espen Moe-Nilssen: Linking to a catalog index
BackgroundMy customer, a school, uses its own system to generate their timetables.The timetables change all the time (they are made one week at a time, usually)The program is from last centery, uses...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: Diazo Syntax
This post is a recap of the video training embedded above and located at: http://youtu.be/3ETufV1OfpMIn this training we are going to learn about the Diazo SyntaxA Sample Rule<replace...
View ArticleDavid Glick: Simplify your TAL with these 2 weird tricks
I wanted to call attention to something Eric mentioned in his Plone Conference 2014 keynote.If you're using the Chameleon template engine, you can interpolate variables like...
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RedTurtle: Bristol Plone Conference 2014: RedTurtle was there for you
Every year the Plone conference is an amazing experience. We have been there to tell you what's going on.Training (27-28 October)On the first two days we attended the mockup training. Mockup is a...
View ArticleeGenix: eGenix ThreadLock Distribution 2.13.0.1 GA
IntroductionSeveral people have approached us about a problem they are facing with installing our mxODBC database adapter for Plone and Zope. The adapter product has dependencies...
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Six Feet Up: Hands on with Multisite Management using Lineage (PloneConf14...
Hands on with Multisite Management using LineageThis post is a summary of my presentation at Plone Conf 2014. The video and slides embedded above are also available at:SpeakerdeckVimeoWhat is...
View ArticlePlone.org: Special Edition Newsletter: Plone Conference Bristol
Plone Bristol 2014 was a smashing success and in just a few minutes, you'll see why. In short, there is so much good stuff it warrants a newsletter all its own. Included in this special edition...
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Starzel.de: Plone Conference 2014: The Highlights
Plone 5The main thing is Plone 5. It look great, is a huge step forward in terms of user experience and brings tons of important improvements. The keynote of Plone's release manager Eric Steele...
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Davide Moro: Pyramid starter seed template powered by Yeoman (part 1)
Book of the month I'm reading this summer: Pylons/Pyramid (http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest).Pyramid (http://www.pylonsproject.org) is a minimal Python-based web development framework that let...
View ArticleManuel Reinhardt: Reversion Control
Assuming you're using git for version control, let's say you've merged a feature branch into the master branch of some repository. Then you decide that the feature is not quite ready yet after all, and...
View ArticleWichert Akkerman: Lingua 3.6: improved template handling and a new extraction...
Lingua is a Python package that helps you find translatable texts in your code, and generate POT-file for them. Think of it as xgettext on steroids for Python.Since the last time I wrote about Lingua a...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Python desktop application development - Therry van Neerven
(Summary of a talk at a python meeting in Eindhoven, NL. I also gave a presentation (just the slides)).He's the author of the "sendcloud client", a desktop app of the company he works for. It steers a...
View ArticleRedTurtle: Scraping cheap airline tickets
Because the term low-cost airline is difficult to define we have agreed that we should bet on something easy to check - like the ticket price per kilometer. After some rough checks the bet was on:...
View ArticleKees Hink: Removing a Dexterity behavior in Generic Setup isn't possible
Just so no one else wastes time with this: In the version of Generic Setup currently used in Plone 4.3.3 (1.7.4) it's not possible to remove a single behavior. I tried setting the attribute...
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Six Feet Up: How to use Variables in Diazo
Variables can be used in your Diazo rules.xml from TAL expressions set in your theme. These variables are defined in your theme's manifest.cfg like so:[theme:parameters] portal_url =...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Better REST with Morepath 0.8
Today I released Morepath 0.8 (CHANGES). In this release Morepath has become faster, simpler and more powerful at the same time. I like it when I can do all three in a release!I'll get faster and...
View ArticlePlone.org: Welcome 2014-15 Plone Foundation Board Members
Two new and five returning members were confirmed during the Plone Bristol conference last month.
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