Mark van Lent: First steps with Compass
A lightning talk by Thijs Jonkman at the Dutch Plone User Day once again brought Compass to my attention. I've read about it on other occasions, but I never actually tried it. But Thijs really wet my...
View ArticleEnfold Systems: Plone Conference 2011
The 2011 Plone Conference will be held at the San Francisco State University downtown campus. In addition to the standard Plone tracks, there will also be a “related technologies” track, with heavy...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone-Powered Connexions Featured in The Chronicle of Higher...
Connexions is a developer of web-based collections of free educational materials, whose work towards making outstanding content available to students as an alternative to traditional textbooks has...
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Reinout van Rees: Moving to github from our company-internal svn
We're slowly moving internal svn projects over to github. I wrote up some notes to help colleagues moving projects themselves. Which can be helpful for others, so I've cleaned my notes up a bit and...
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Tarek Ziade: Mozillians, win a free pass for Pycon US
The 10th Pycon US conference will happen next March in Santa Clara, California. This is the biggest Pythoneers gathering in the world. If you’ve never been to a Pycon and you like Python, you should...
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Kagesenshi: Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
A titan of which all tech giants and all of us stands on - Izhar Firdaus -
View ArticleNoe Nieto: Goodbye world
In Mexico you have to go to 6 years of elementary school, 3 for secondary and another three of Bachelor/high-school just before you can get to the University. During my three years of high-school I was...
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Paul Everitt: Pyramid tutorial at Plone Conf
Let’s all pretend that this post went out 2 months ago, which would have been a grown-up and mature time to have promoted it. In a couple of weeks I’m giving a Pyramid tutorial at the Plone Conference...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Nose testing corner case: executable .py files
We're using nose to run our tests. Easy test discovery and so. So I also went after some existing internal libraries and simplified the test running there. There were problems though with one library:...
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ACLARK.NET, LLC: Pillow: one year later
For anyone unfamiliar with Pillow, it is the “friendly PIL fork”: a fork of PIL that aims to remain a good citizen in the PIL community through its actions. Warm and fluffy history Pillow 1.0 was...
View ArticlePlone.org: Nominations Open for Plone Foundation Board of Directors
If you have an interest in helping the governance of Plone, and particularly the energy and time to pitch in, please consider nominating yourself to serve on the Plone Foundation board of directors for...
View ArticleMartin Aspeli: Plone, the generous community
A lesson in selfish alturism A few days ago, Franco Pellegrini posted a short message to the Plone mailing lists about a project he'd been working on in his spare time: an IDE for Plone. It's...
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Netsight Developers: Plone Conference 2011 Nearly Here!
With just over two weeks to go, the annual Plone Conference is nearly upon us. It is not too late to buy your ticket and attend if you have not done so already. At US$350 it represents amazing value...
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keul: Plone, security and workflows: learn how to use "Acquire" option
This article is a new episode of my security and workflow common mistake using Plone.In the first part, "Plone, security and workflows: when rely on Owner role is bad" I introduced a potential workflow...
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Reinout van Rees: (Dutch) Python/Django vacature in Utrecht
English note: this is about a job opening, but we really want someone who can speak Dutch, so I'm keeping the text in Dutch, too. Na twee eerdere vacatures hebben we er weer eentje! We doen het goed,...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: PyCon Finland live streams running
Here, today! Track 1, auditorium Lambda 9:45 Opening notes 10:00 “from __magic__ import wtf” by Tommie Gannert from Spotify 11:00 “Replacing Spreadsheets with Django” by Teemu Kurppa from Huikea...
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Youenn Boussard: buildout section in emacs
Add this on your .emacs and alt-x bsection give you a cool buffer for navigate on buildout section name. (defun bsection() (interactive) (occur "\\\[.*\\\] ") (other-window 1) (if (get-buffer...
View ArticleChris McDonough: Jobs-Ification of Software Development
Try not to Jobs-ify the task of software development.
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