Mikko Ohtamaa: Accessing priviledged Javascript APIs from your web page in...
Firefox is internally built on Javascript components using native C++ bindings. These components are normally exposed only for add-ons. The functionality includes high level stuff like bookmark...
View ArticleConnexions Blog: Google Summer of Code 2012 Comes to A Close
Connexions was very fortunate to have 4 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students this year. All of their projects were completed successfully so we will be releasing their enhancements in the coming...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: New, Simpler Collections in Plone 4.2
Plone 4.2 has introduced a new Collection content type, which replaces the Topic content type in previous versions of Plone 4. With the older Topic content type, users could create a collection (or...
View ArticleNidelven IT: Making PatchPloneContent play nicely with blobs
So I'm upgrading this old site that has iw.fss as the storage system for blob content and was struggling a while with some content not having all their Archetypes schema content transferred during a...
View ArticleSea Sprint 2012: Timo Stollenwerk Joins Sea Sprint
Timo Stollenwerk, a prolific Plone contributor, has joined the Sea Sprint team as both sprinter and sponsor. Timo (tisto) comes to the team from Bonn, Germany with tons of experience and a great...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Responsive design workflow using two browsers
I am building a new mobilization add-on for Plone CMS. I’d like to share the following workflow which I found greatly to speed up CSS tuning tasks for responsive design Use CSS “screen and (max-width:...
View ArticleNidelven IT: Products.SimpleCalendar - new (but yet old) accessible calendar...
As this week started I was working on upgrading a website for a customer, a site which had been using p4a.plonecalendar for quite a while, and doing that well..But the site is in a (big) upgrade...
View ArticlePlumi: Critical Commons Plumi Sprint
We are following up our sprint in Athens on the new EngageMedia.org skin with another sprint, this time for Critical Commons, a video site built using Plumi that is a collaborative online teaching tool...
View ArticleEric Steele: Plone Community and Development – Things of note (2012-08-23)
Hello everyone. In an effort to make sure that everyone knows what’s being done and what needs to be done, here’s a list of both. If you’re wondering what you should be caring about, this is it. If...
View ArticlePloneChix: Plone South America Sprint Report: Day 1!
Holy Moly! Plone Symposium South America has been amazing, and the strong local community really shined through today at the sprints. I usually don't do these report things but I'm just so golly proud...
View ArticleKagesenshi: Using OpenShift with a project on SVN repository
OpenShift uses GIT for the internal repo, however, you might have existing projects which are on SVN which you want to deploy into OpenShift but yet to have chance to migrate it to GIT (or for some...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: The 5 Essential Enhancements in Plone 4.2. You Should Know About
Lots of good things come in July, such as the wonders of outdoors ice-cream booths, and Plone 4.2, which was released on July 5th, was just the cherry on top. This latest release comes with several key...
View ArticlePlone.org: Sea Sprint is Just Around the Corner - Help Bring Deco Lite to...
Sea Sprint is an oceanfront invitational sprint taking place September 21-24 on the white sand beaches of Oak Island, North Carolina. The focus of Sea Sprint, inspired by Eric Steele’s PSE 2012 talk,...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: Why Choose Pyramid For Rapid Web Development Projects
If you have a web project with simple requirements that needs to launch quickly, which framework will you pick? PHP or Python? PHP is generally inconsistent across its naming of methods in the...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Autodiscovering log files for logrotate
Logrotate is the UNIX application responsible for removing old (website) log file entries and preventing your server disk filling up. Logrotate is configured by writing config files where you specify...
View ArticlePlone Conference 2012: All aboard... the Plone boat
Here is the deal: Close to the conference venue (about 7 minutes walking) are the docks of Arnhem. We have contacted a hotel-boat or 'flotel' if you will. It has a capacity of 52 quarters with two beds...
View ArticleDylan Jay: Node Schmode! pythonic realtime web. Part I
This is summary of a talk I gave recently at #pycon-au (19th Aug, 2012). By realtime web we're talking about ways get quick two communication happening between a browser page and the server. First...
View ArticlePlone Conference 2012: Talk schedule is ready
We asked, you delivered. The total number of talks is over 60, which is more than enough to make this years conference both entertaining and educational. Here is the schedule you have all been waiting...
View ArticlePlone.org: Talk schedule for Plone Conference 2012 is ready
As we enter the last month before the big event, it is our pleasure to announce that the talk schedule is ready and about to be published. Since the quality of the submissions was very good, there 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...
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