Jon Stahl: diazo + plone.app.theming for non-developers
Plone 4.2 has just been released. Congrats to Release Manager Eric Steele and all of the excellent folks who worked hard to make it happen! For me, this is one of the most exciting Plone releases...
View ArticleBubbleNet: Python 3 support for ipdb
ipdb is a IPython-enabled pdb (Python debugger). ipdb exports functions to access the IPython debugger, which features tab completion, syntax highlighting, better tracebacks, better introspection with...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone 4.2 Released
The Plone community is pleased to announce the release of Plone 4.2, the newest version of our easy-to-use, flexible and secure open-source content management system. Plone 4.2 is a minor release that...
View ArticleKarl Johan Kleist: Plone theming without Hypertension: Diazo and Brackets
I’ve always hated the sorcery involved when theming a Plone site. But since I started to use Diazo themes in Python packages, with the assets on the filesystem, life’s a breeze. A Diazomethane...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Working around buildout server down problems
Plone installations may refer to external HTTP hosted files in buildout.cfg. Things go bad when those servers are down, breaking your development and maintenance workflows. Like today: buildout extends...
View ArticleDylan Jay: extends-cache can save you from buildout hell
Recently a server went down which a lot of buildout files depend on. A little know feature of zc.buildout can save you from such a dependency. The extends-cache. In your buildout or in your global...
View ArticleJazkarta Blog: Templer and ZopeSkel
At the sprint following Plone Symposium East, I helped Cris Ewing write documentation for Templer, a Python code generation system that was derived from the older ZopeSkel application. I knew very...
View ArticleAlex Clark: The Plones Templer
(c.f. Knights Templar) I think we have a situation that could use the help of the Plone and Python communities at large. It goes something like this: About 6 years ago, Daniel Nouri started the...
View ArticleJazkarta Blog: Kale Will Save the World
I have to hand it to the University of Minnesota Press, they do a great job keeping their homepage fresh. It has lots of portlets around the edges, and a big slot in the middle to hold a featured...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: Plone 4.2 Released
The official announcement came this week, and the team here at Six Feet Up is excited! The keyword for this release is: easy to use. While Plone has many powerful features to manage content and provide...
View ArticleNoe Nieto: Script para arreglar texto
Script para arreglar texto Hoy me pidieron resolver un problema curioso; Tenemos un sitio donde gente no técnica introduce información acerca de sus proyectos. El problema que había que resolver es...
View ArticleJazkarta Blog: Go Botany!
We’ve been having classic summer weather here in New England – gardens, fields and forests are exploding with lush vegetation. It brings out my inner botanist – something I actually have advanced...
View ArticlePlumi: Plumi 4.4b Released
A beta version of Plumi 4.4 was released recently, updating Plumi to Plone 4.2. Changes include deployment as a WSGI app and asynchronous execution of jobs via plone.app.async, separating the video...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Obviel 1.0b2 released!
Since the last release of Obviel 1.0b2, I've been plugging away at creating a new version. This version has a massive list of changes. Some highlights: a much nicer demo app, the inevitable todo list....
View ArticleQuintagroup: Become Responsive with Plone Themes
The tendency towards building user-friendly and facilitating technologies is booming, with new methods and strategies appearing with the speed of light. We want all possible life conveniences to be at...
View ArticleConnexions Developers Blog: The Usual Suspects
Starting Blogging ! This is the first of hopefully a regular series of blogs from the developers behind Connexions. Connexions Connexions provides free (beer and speech) educational resources to...
View ArticleConnexions Developers Blog: OpenStack and Rackspace
OpenStack and Rackspace I suspect that if you find this as exciting as I do, one or both of us need to go out looking for a life. However, OpenStack is nearly here, and Connexions is in the Early...
View ArticleKagesenshi: Grok framework quickstart template for OpenShift using the DIY...
Another OpenShift goodness for Zope developers. A quickstart template for the Grok framework! Grok is now deployable easily on openshift.redhat.com!Check it out here:...
View ArticleAlex Clark: Pillow moved to python-imaging organization
On 7/30/2010 Pillow, the “friendly” PIL fork, was released. Since then, there have been a number of releases: $ vanity Pillow Pillow-1.0.tar.gz 2010-07-31 800...
View ArticleKarl Johan Kleist: How to build Python, so that a shared library...
For an optimal configuration of the Apache module mod_wsgi, Graham Dumpleton recommends: “you are highly encouraged to ensure that your Python installation has been configured and compiled with the...
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