Blue Dynamics: Plone, Semantics and Python, IKS FISE at Plone Conference 2010
First of all I was really amazed to see my talk titled "Plone is so semantic, isn't it?" accepted for Plone Conference 2010. I always thought Plone and Semantics is not a topic popular at the...
View ArticleShuttle Thread: Diazo / XDV sprint report
Ken Wasetis, Kees Hink and Peter Uittenbroek worked on building example themes with Diazo. These currently live in the collective.examples.diazo package, but we're now discussing how best to present...
View ArticleSuresh V: Removing a file from nginx cache
$ cd <cache-dir>$ rm -f `grep -rl '^KEY: [^/]*<full-path>$' .`
View ArticleDaniel Greenfeld: A request for new common distutils/pypi classifiers
This request is to help enhance Django Packages, PyPM Index, and other projects. This would also help the Python community at large.Would it be possible that a standard be established for listing in...
View ArticleDaniel Greenfeld: A request for new pypi classifiers
This request is to help enhance Django Packages, PyPM Index, and other projects. This would also help the Python community at large.Would it be possible that a standard be established for listing in...
View ArticleDaniel Greenfeld: Release classifiers in distutils/pypi
Thanks to Doug Napoleone I'm now aware there is already a convention followed for the python and framework versions, but it appears that not enough people are aware of it. This post is pretty much a...
View ArticleTarek Ziade: Distutils 2 alpha 4 – work in progress
Time flies, and we did not hit the first beta of Distutils2 yet. It’s quite clear now that we won’t make it for Python 3.2. But that’s not a big issue because people will be able to install Distutils2...
View ArticleJazkarta Blog: Scalable Plone hosting with Amazon EC2
At the recent Plone Conference in Bristol, UK, I had the privilege of giving a talk about Scalable Plone hosting with Amazon EC2. In particular, the talk centered around a project that we did recently...
View ArticleJazkarta Blog: Easily launch Plone sites on Amazon EC2 with mr.awsome
While we’ve been promoting our Plone 3 and Plone 4 AMIs which are really great to evaluate Plone on Amazon EC2 quickly, I want to tell you about another way you can get started with Amazon EC2 that...
View ArticleChris McDonough: repoze.bfg is now Pyramid
The web framework previously known as repoze.bfg is now named Pyramid, managed as part of the Pylons Project.
View ArticleIzak Burger: Why I hate MySQL
Certain things in MySQL really really gets to me... MySQL has a weird non-standard way of quoting literals For example, if you named a table "order", you need to quote it because order is also a...
View ArticleMock It!: Translation and Punctuation
The Plone CMS includes gettext translations for a great many languages. For some reason, most translations differ in its punctuation in comparison to the original text - typically the translation is...
View ArticlePaul Everitt: Pylons and BFG, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g
First, repoze.bfg had its long-awaited 1.3 release last week. For fans of the lightweight framework, this release was a nice wrapping-up point. i18n/l10n and lots of little tweaks to scratch itches...
View ArticlePaul Everitt: I like jQuery UI
Over the last year I’ve done more work with jQuery and specifically, widget frameworks atop it. I’ve spent most of my time with jQuery UI and jQuery Tools. I like them both, but I wound up settling...
View ArticleNetsight Developers: Plone Conference 2010 Redux
KJE5CS39P9YF Well.... after a chance to finally catch some sleep and collect my thoughts, I thought I'd write a post about the Plone Conference we just held here in Bristol. WOW! The whole event went...
View ArticlePhilipp von Weitershausen: Status report for October
It’s been over a month since my last mega-update, so here’s an update of what I’ve been up to since then: Shipped: Firefox Sync 1.5 We shipped Firefox Sync 1.5 which is also part of Firefox 4.0b7 and...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: Tips for Writing a Solid Plone Theme
There are a lot of different pieces that need to be edited to put together a full Plone theme, and it can be difficult to know the best way to do everything. Here I have put together a few of the best...
View ArticlePhilipp von Weitershausen: Firefox 4.0 beta 7 updates for BarTab and Vertical...
Covert BarTab-like feature in Firefox 4.0 beta 7 A few weeks ago Paul O’Shannessy implemented cascading session restore. By doing that he took a big item off my to-do list for BarTab and made add-ons...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: SOAP is officially dead, long live REST
When someone mentions "web services", most of the people in my environment still automatically think SOAP instead of REST. Their perception, if they even know REST at all, is that REST is something...
View ArticleWebLion: WebLion Staff Works With Other Plone Developers On K-12 Buildout
WebLion staff is working with other Plone developers on a project to assist K-12 educators and other educational institutions with adopting Plone as their web content management system. "The K-12...
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