Ross Patterson: Does the Tool Really Deserve the Credit?
To get it out of the way, this is not about virtualenv or z3c.form. I have nothing but praise for virtualenv, I just use it very rarely. I have much to criticize about z3c.form, but that's another...
View ArticleMartin Aspeli: Tools for a successful Plone project
From the book writing procrastination dep't I've recently had to step away from a great project at Lotterywest – it was difficult to continue after having to leave the country. :-) The project goes...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Peek-a-boo – Python logo spotted in outdoor advertisement!
This caught my eye when coming home from the work. The finger points straight to the snake… Kudos to Nokia for this. Nokia’s phones are the best platform if you wish to have pleasant rapid mobile...
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Blue Dynamics: Setting up a PyPI mirror (with z3c.pypimirror)
PyPI - the official Python Package Index is sometimes on its limits and times out. This can happen and I'am sure people do best work to keep it up and running. But from a company-perspective its good...
View ArticleRepoze: BFG at German Python Conference
At the German Python and Zope conference in Dresden in September Simon Pamies will be giving a tutorial on BFG (in German) on Tuesday 14th. He will also be giving an introductory talk on BFG at the...
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Baiju M: Python training at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai
Last Friday (13th August) I conducted a Python training at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai (REC). I got the invitation few weeks back from Jayakumari, a faculty member of computer applications...
View ArticleRepoze: BFG at Froscon
Andreas Jung will be giving a talk (in German) on a highly scalable web application using BFG, MongoDB and RabbitMQ at Froscon in Sankt Augustin near Bonn in Germany on Sunday 22nd August. For more...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Version pinnings and fake eggs and allow-picked-versions
I posted this to the Plone product-developers list a few days ago, but got no reactions yet, so I thought I would give it a wider audience. Main point of this post is to say: Hey, be aware that even if...
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Tarek Ziade: Distutils 2 – Summary of the GSOC
Man this has been an amazing summer. We had 5 students working on Distutils 2 and the work done was really great. Most important, I think we managed to find new contributors for the future. Thanks to...
View ArticleSteve McMahon: Finishing Up GSOC 2010 PloneFormGen Work
In a recent post, I described some of the great work Nenad Mancevic (Manca) has been doing adding new user interface features to PloneFormGen as part of his Google Summer of Code project. GSOC 2010 is...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: Plone 4 Theming Options
The next major version of Plone is now in the Release Candidate stage and will be officially available in the coming months. I have been working with Plone 4 through the beta stages by fixing tickets...
View ArticleRepoze: Brainrepublic on BFG
From the new-deployments-department: Brainrepublic is a newly launched website based on repoze.bfg and MongoDB. Congratulations to Andreas Jung.
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Patrick Gerken: Don't catch import errors, use pkg_resources
After debugging a funny problem in tests which came from Circular Imports that got eaten, let me show you how you can test, if some package is available, and how you can test, if that package is new...
View ArticleSteve McMahon: Plone Conf 2010: Not Just for Coders
Talk submissions are now open for Plone Conference 2010, and your Plone company may be starting to encourage folks to submit talk proposals. Please, think beyond just coders! We'll have a more...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone 4 Reaches Release Candidate Status
The first release candidate of Plone 4.0 is now available.
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Mikko Ohtamaa: How people perceive Plone outside Plone community
Our company does business with multiple CMS systems, like Joomla, Plone and Drupal. They all have their advantages, they all have their disadvantages. We do not want to make CMS a religion. It’s a...
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Tarek Ziade: Pycon France next week-end
Pycon France will be starting Saturday in Paris. Make sure you’re there if you are in Paris. It’s Free. Here are a list of talks I don’t want to miss (I want to see them all more of course): GUnicorn,...
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Connexions Blog: We're in an NPR article!
Connexions is mentioned in an NPR article, "Books have many futures". The title says it all: while Connexions and the CCCOER are praised for supporting the future of free digital textbooks, the author...
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Kamon Ayeva: Current job: Enter phase 2
I’ve now spent 10 months in my current job, and I owe to myself to stop today for a quick restrospective before moving to another phase. The first period (phase 1) helped me understand the context and...
View ArticleValentine Web Systems: Time-based publishing in Plone with higher security
Plone's powerful workflow system let you control security of each object in each state. With time-base publishing you want a new document to appear first when the effective date has been reached. In...
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