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Reinout van Rees: Django under the hood: python templating - Armin Ronacher
(One of the summaries of a talk at the 2014 django under the hood conference).Armin Ronacher is the maker of many non-Django things such as Flask and Jinja2.His initial thought was "why are we even...
View ArticleContentGardening.com: How to upgrade an old Plone site
I have migrated several sites from Plone 4.1 to Plone 4.3.3 this week. I am in the fortunate position where I help maintain many Plone sites, most of them being more than 6 years old. Fortunate because...
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 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,...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Eric Bréhault: Running a Plone product on Substance D
Why should you want to create or run a Plone product on Substance D? Because it is fun. It might be a good experience for the future of Plone.Substance D has all the good things from Pyramid. Plus...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Érico Andrei: The case for Plone Distributions
In some cases there are many sites that are almost the same, for example universities using Plone EDU. Different look and feel, different content, same base.At Simples Consultoria we have been...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Franco Pellegrini and Johannes Raggam: Ready, set... Mockup!
This is about Plone's new front-end library. Mockup is a framework for adding Javascript functionality from other libraries to Plone. Will be part of Plone 5.For example the 'moment' pattern:<span...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Calvin Hendryx-Parker: Hands on with Multisite Management...
I am CTO at Six Feet Up. Doing Plone since 2003. Lineage was one of my first contributions.Lineage is an add-on for Plone. Enabled by the pieces that are built into Plone, like INavigationRoot,...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Keynote Michael Johnson: Kickstarting the Personal Space Age
I am the founder of http://pocketspacecraft.comI am a physicist. Working in meteorology and ocean ventilation models and tools. Voyager and ROSAT analysis. Att Imperial College. Software developer,...
View ArticleeGenix: eGenix mxODBC Connect 2.1.1 GA
IntroductionThe mxODBC Connect™ Database Interface for Python allows users to easily connect Python applications to all major databases on the market today in a highly portable, convenient and secure...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Transmogrifier, the Python migration pipeline, also for Python 3
TL;DR; I forked collective.transmogrifier into just transmogrifier(not released yet) to make its core usable without Plone dependencies, using Chameleon for TAL-expressions, installable with just pip...
View ArticleUW Oshkosh How-To's: Using email address autocomplete to set a name field,...
Caveat: this information is specific to UW Oshkosh's email address autocompletion mechanism!This is an extension to the how-to entitled Email address autocompletion in which we explained how we set up...
View ArticleUW Oshkosh How-To's: Email address autocompletion
In our specific use case, we needed to have the standard 'replyto' field in a PloneFormGen form autocomplete based on the last name of a person being...
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Six Feet Up: Handling PloneFormGen Submissions : The Email Adapter
PloneFormGen is a Plone add-on that makes it fast and easy to create forms on your website. With just a few clicks, you can quickly create contact forms, order forms, surveys or any other form for...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Summary of my "developer laptop automation" talk
Last week I gave a talk at a python meetup in Eindhoven (NL). I summarize Therry van Neerven's python desktop application development talk, but I didn't write one for my own "developer laptop...
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Six Feet Up: Doing code releases with ZFS
Plone backups can be painfulHave you ever wanted to release a new version of your site while maintaining a way to quickly roll back if something goes wrong? ZODB sizes are always growing, so how do you...
View ArticleUW Oshkosh How-To's: How to prevent PloneFormGen form submit unless two email...
You may have a PloneFormGen form that asks TWICE for an email address, if it's important that the address be entered correctly. You do not want the form to be submittable unless both email addresses...
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