Karl Horak: 2011 Year in Review
It's very nearly the end of the year, which is probably why I'm listening to "Driving the Last Spike" by Genesis off their I Can't Dance album. So here's a wrap-up of Plone Metrics for 2011.I'm always...
View ArticleQuintagroup: Plone Demo
Quintagroup has recently launched a new version of our Plone Demo website, where you can see and feel Plone CMS at first hand. Admin demo account can be used to log in and, thus, get the experience of...
View Articlekeul: Related contents: keeping compatibility with Plone 3
Some days before the Christmas break we found a little compatibility problem with collective.portletpage: when used on Plone 4, and a user add a related item to a Portlet Page content, the "Related...
View ArticleKarl Horak: Plone Metrics Person of the Year
Just like every year, outstanding contributions have been made from a large number of Plonistas worldwide. It's been a eventful year for Plone and that makes 2011's throwdown especially difficult....
View ArticleChris McDonough: In Praise of Complaining
In praise of complaining, even when the complaints are absurd.
View ArticleTarek Ziade: The fear of CRUD
Cornice is growing steadily, and we are thinking about the different ways to use it for our needs. One use case that comes often when we build web services is the need to publish a SQL Database via...
View ArticleDan Jacka: Attachments Now for the Future
Here's a reasonable requirement of a website: Pages can have attachments. Attachments are files associated with a page. They're listed when viewing the page. In Plone, the upcoming Deco page layout...
View ArticleMark van Lent: Back to work
Thanks to a tweet by @pypi I discovered collective.backtowork, created by Patrick Gerken.The package, of which version 0.5.2 was released today, is small but can be very useful. It shows a notification...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone Foundation Gets Two Proposals to Host Plone Conference 2012
Two proposals to host Plone Conference 2012 were received by the Plone Foundation board prior to the January 1 deadline. The two proposals came from: Arnhem, The Netherlands - by Four DigitsParis,...
View ArticleJC Brand: Plone and Dexterity: Enable behaviors per content type instance
NOTE: This blogpost assumes that you are already familiar with a lot of the Zope/Plone programming technologies and concepts. Every time I mention a specific add-on or technology, I've added a link to...
View ArticleTarek Ziade: Mozillians, win a free pass for Pycon US – take 2
I am extending the contest until Feb the 1st – Mozillians, win a free pass for Pycon US Filed under: mozilla, python
View ArticleValentine Web Systems: Jeeves Information Systems has Valentine Plone hosting
Plone hosting Recently several cheap plone hosting alternatives has arisen, one of the better we like is Ploud, incredible fast and beautiful, need to talk to Alan about licensing the code :) There are...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Fixing POSKeyError: ‘No blob file’ content in Plone
Plone CMS 4.x onwards stores uploaded files and images in ZODB as BLOBs. They exist in var/blobstorage folder structure on the file system, files being named after persistent object ids...
View ArticleFour Digits: Writing the Four Digits Plone Conference Proposal
On Friday 30 december Four Digits submitted a proposal to host the anual Plone Conference 2012 in Arnhem! Here is a little sneak peek in the long preparation process to submitting our proposal.First...
View ArticleConnexions Developers Blog: Weekly Dev Report for Jan. 6, 2012
As part of an effort to increase our transparency, the dev team at Connexions will be posting an update on the projects we are working on. This is our first report and we will make a best effort to do...
View ArticleNoe Nieto: Having two jquery versions in one Plone
Intro I'm working on a site that uses a lot of galleries made with Jquerytools. Once the galleries grew up, a small bug appared: after the 15th or 16th element, the gallery started to jump. That can be...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: readthedocs.org, GitHub edit backlink and short history of...
TL; DR: To encourage contributions to developer documentation you can maintain Sphinx based documentation on GitHub, deploy and it via readthedocs.org and have this nice “Edit this document” pop-up...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Mobilizing websites with responsive design and HTML5 tutorial
This is a blog post series tutorial for adapting your existing websites for mobile devices without building a separate mobile site. It shows, with examples, how with little changes in your HTML, CSS...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Working on HTML(5) for mobile sites (Mobilizing websites with...
This blog post is a part of Mobilizing websites with responsive design and HTML5 tutorial. For all posts please see the Introduction post. There is no separate “mobile HTML”. Mobile sites are normal...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Considerations when mobilizing a legacy website (Mobilizing...
This blog post is a part of Mobilizing websites with responsive design and HTML5 tutorial. For all posts please see the Introduction post. As mentioned in the introduction, this tutorial is based on an...
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