Niteoweb: Testing memoized methods
For a recent Plone project we needed to write unit tests for methods that were using plone.memoize for caching return values. With a standard Plone's PloneTestCase I got the following error: Error in...
View ArticleSteve McMahon: Plone and jQuery Tools
The two most obvious cosmetic changes to Plone 4 are its clean and modern theme, Sunburst, and the addition of popup forms for AJAX modal dialog functions like login, contact form, user addition and...
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Josh Johnson: Altering the Relative Column Widths in Plone 4
The new default ‘Sunburst’ theme in Plone 4 uses the Deco grid layout system. Generally speaking, I like it. One part that got to be a hindrance for me recently was the column widths. I just added a...
View ArticleChris McDonough: Pyramid's Optimizations
Another turgid and self-serving entry about the Pyramid web framework; this time about design and implementation decisions related to optimization.
View ArticleNiteoweb: Deploying Cyn.in 3.1.3 on CentOS 5.4
Last week we were upgrading Cyn.in to the latest version. After a few days of testing on a local server it was time to deploy it to the server. Since Cyn.in needs quite some RAM to operate normally, we...
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Tarek Ziade: Distutils2 sprint !
Thanks to Logilab, our host for this, we will have a Distutils2 sprint in Paris from the 27th to the 30st January. I won’t be sprinting the 27th but I will be, starting the 28th until the end. The...
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Tarek Ziade: Mozilla Services – Weeks 01-02
What’s this ? read this post I did not post a weekly update last week because things slowed down during vacations. I’ve also decided: to change the title to a less geeky one, that is easy to understand...
View ArticleChris McDonough: Pyramid "Auth" API Design Postmortem
A postmortem of a set of poor API design choices in Pyramid.
View ArticleWebLion: Submit your talk and training proposals for Plone Symposium East 2011
Plone Symposium East 2011 takes place May 18 - 19 this year. As in previous years, symposium presenters earn a $75 registration discount. Coupled with the early-bird discount, this amounts to $150...
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Connexions Developers Blog: Introducing J. Cameron Cooper
“I am pleased to introduce Consortium technology committee member, Cameron Cooper, independent consultant and Plone expert. Cameron knows Connexions software extremely well. He was Connexions System...
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Connexions Developers Blog: Connexions/Rhaptos Sprint Topics at Plone...
Connexions plans to organize a sprint on Connexions and Rhaptos development at the Eighth Annual Plone Conference in Bristol, UK (October 25th - 31st). We would like to hear your ideas for topics to...
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Tarek Ziade: The UI of my dreams : Firefox / Terminal / Thunderbird unified
I work in three environments the whole day: Firefox (now mostly Minefield) Linux terminals Thunderbird Yeah you can tell I am not good at screenshots I switch from one screen to the other using...
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Paul Everitt: Wonderful blog post on Pyramid development
I’ve wanted for a while to write an introductory piece on Pyramid. That is, how to use Pyramid to do a style of development that I find very simple and intuitive: traversal and ZODB. Alex Marandon...
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Paul Everitt: Chris McDonough on pluggable apps
We’re from the world of Zope and Plone, so we have a long history on the topic of frameworks and pluggability. We’ve helped foist the good, the bad, and the ugly on large populations of developers...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone Symposium East 2011 Announces Dates and Calls for Talks and...
The WebLion team is organizing the annual Plone Symposium East 2011 at Penn State in State College, PA (USA) and has announced the following dates for the symposium as well as training and sprints the...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Passwords: how to tackle that?
I'm doing a lot of web development. By nature, I also have a metric ton of username/password logins on different websites. I have to admit that I'm using the same password in a lot of places. Well,...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: New mac, new passwords
Two weeks I go I wondered about passwords: how to tackle that?. Doing web development, I have tons of logins and I used to have one password for most of the sites I log in to. Not terribly safe. My...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Plone vs. Drupal – Welcome to Legoland
This is the most insightful IRC comment for a while and pretty much summarizes it all. <lloydpearsoniv> i just appreciate the help. Plone is by the far the most sophisticated CMS i have ever...
View ArticleValentine Web Systems: Plone 4 theming with Diazo is simple
Diazo theming is fast We recently started an upgrade to Plone 4 of our website. After few days everything was done except the theme. To avoid delays and get our website up and running as fast as...
View ArticleKees Hink: Why is my Data.fs so big?
If your Data.fs is still big after packing, here are some tricks you might try to find out why it is big.1. Write a custom script (example see below) that does a catalog query and returns each brain's...
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