WebLion: Registration Open for Plone Symposium East 2011
Registration is open for the 4th annual Plone Symposium East. This 4th annual event will be held in State College, Pennsylvania May 18 and 19, 2011. Your hosts will be the indefatigable WebLion group...
View ArticleValentine Web Systems: Plone is the most secure CMS
Most secure open source CMS Plone has proven to be secure before and updated statistics from the CVE database show that Plone is still the most secure CMS. Bellow we see the last five years of...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Python meeting Utrecht on wednesday 16 February
The next Dutch python meeting will be next wednesday in Utrecht at our offices. (See my blog entry). Today I saw two fresh talk submissions for that evening: Christo Butcher has a 30 minute...
View ArticleJosh Johnson: Profiling Plone 4 (well, profiling Zope while >running< Plone 4)
I mentioned in my last post that RelStorage is the new cool, and I lamented briefly about how my application shouldn’t suck, but it does because of something I can’t really figure out, because none of...
View ArticleConnexions Blog: Connexions Conference: Day One
The Connexions Conference is being held at Rice University in Houston TX. It started today with a day long meeting of the Connexions Consortium. As described on the Consortium's web site:The Connexions...
View ArticleYouenn Boussard: Automate action with mechanize
Mechanize is a great tool for web ressources access . It simulate an web browser. This library is a base of zope.testbrowser so if you have zope.testbrowser you have mechanize. A little exemple : login...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Native mobile application development with Plone, WordPress...
We have just released two mobile applications backed by Plone, WordPress and Python middleware code. In this blog post I’ll tell some background information what we have learnt with mobile...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: Automating Plone site creation with collective.recipe.plonesite
Back in May, I gave a talk at Plone Symposium East about migrating from Drupal to Plone with Transmogrifier. Part of my presentation involved showing the power of collective.recipe.plonesite in...
View ArticleNetsight Developers: '10 Lessons' Intranet Event
On October 5th Netsight is hosting a half day event in Bristol focussing on our 10 Lessons learned from building successful corporate intranets and portals. Our consultants and developers will be...
View ArticleRoss Patterson: Looking for Projects and/or a Team
I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about which direction I want to take my professional life as a software developer and I've come to some conclusions. I'll detail more about that below if...
View ArticleNiteoweb: Plone 4 dev on Lion
Introduction Recently I upgraded to OS X Lion and here are my notes on how I got my working environment working. XCode First things first, you need to setup build tools (gcc, make and the like). On OS...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: 3 reasons why you should send your corporate representative to...
PyCon is a network of conferences around the globe related to Python programming language and technologies. PyCon Finland is now arranged for the second time (two weeks to the registration deadline!) I...
View ArticleIzak Burger: Cleaning documents polluted by copy-paste from MSWord
This problem is much less severe now that Plone uses tinyMCE in the newer versions, but we still run into problems with older documents created in Kupu on older versions of Plone. Case in point,...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Fix Linux filename encodings with Python
We recently deployed a web based system to old Red Hat installation still using latin-1 as primary encoding for its filesystem. This caused headscratching as we were using Ubuntu during the development...
View Articlekeul: Plone, security and workflows: when rely on Owner role is bad
Once upon a time Plone was a CMS that:was using less roles than today (no Contributor, Reader or Editor and obviously no Site Administrator, the new entry)None of few roles available (Manager, Owner,...
View ArticleTarek Ziade: Mozilla Services is hiring
My team at Mozilla (Services) is looking for talented people to work on Python-based server apps, such as Firefox Sync. Currently, we’re mainly writing web services. Firefox Sync and most projects we...
View ArticleFour Digits: Last minute Living Statues sprint information
The Living Statues sprint is two days away. We're excited! Here is some last minute information to get a rolling start.Buildout To have a good start we would recommend that all sprinters run the...
View ArticleConnexions Blog: Mobile CNX.ORG Updated
The mobile version of Connexions has been enhanced to improve content display on smartphones. The site has a slightly different look that fits the screen size of a smartphone. The Table of Contents...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: HTTP Referer based redirects in Apache
Referer HTTP header is a HTTP request field tellling the page the browser was on prior clicking link on it. It answers the question “where the user is coming from to my site”. Also the browsers use it...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: It’s movie time: Plone 4 installation tutorial
This blog post starts long overdue series of Sauna Sprint 2011 results. Sauna Sprint 2011 was held in Tampere, Finland and it was a shared venture of EESTEC student organization and Plone open source...
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