Four Digits: Plone Conference 2012 Wrap-up
BAM! The Plone Conf 2012 is part of history now, and wow did we love it!About one year ago: Conference proposal It all started more than one year ago. On October 12th 2011 the first steps where taken...
View ArticleAlex Clark: Gittip, Misunderstood
People do not understand gittip. Or, they do not understand how I use it. Worse, they think they understand it [1]. So much so, some choose to comment about it publicly. Remember gittip is the future?...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone Foundation Board Elects Officers for 2012-2013
The Plone Foundation Board of Directors held their first meeting on Thursday, October 18th and selected Foundation officers for the upcoming year. The officers are: President - Paul Roeland Paul is an...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Opening files from Firebug in Sublime Text 2 or any text editor
I have the following use case in my web application development workflow Open any CSS file and its line from Firebug inspector in Sublime Text 2 text editor Open any Javascript file and its line from...
View ArticleAlex Clark: Mailing List Etiquette
I read a lot of mailing lists: Also, I've been subscribing to, reading, and participating in discussions on mailing lists since about the time Mailman 1.0 was released circa 1999 [1]. And I have fond...
View ArticleNoe Nieto: My first issue with meteor solved quickly
My first issue with meteor solved quickly Today I was hacking on my first app with Meteor and I stumbled upon the following issue right after running the application for the first time:...
View ArticleAlex Clark: Review of Aspeli's Professional Plone 4 Development
I owe PACKT a review of this book, so here it is. First: I liked it. Second: I appreciate Aspeli writing it. Third: Like many others, I couldn't wait for it to come out. Fourth: I know that it was a...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Embedding Robot Framework tests and keywords into Sphinx...
Robot Framework ships with decent tools for generating reference documentation out of your robot keywords and test data (see libdocand testdoc). Yet, when Timo Stollenwerk presented Robot Framework as...
View ArticleJC Brand: Collaborative editing of HTML with TinyMCE not going to happen soon
TL:DR: Collaborative editing doesn't work well with XML/HTML. Right now, the solution seems to be to use Markdown instead. During my talk on XMPP applications in Plone, someone asked whether I was...
View ArticleNidelven IT: 2 new products released, PloneboardComments and...
So, I released some new products to the Plone community the last couple of weeks. These are products we've been using a while internally and I found that now was a good time to release these...
View ArticleLennart Regebro: Make your site mobile with mdotit!
This summer I have been involved with a new startup to help making mobile support for existing websites. The project is call mdotit and will dynamically transform your website into a mobile site that...
View ArticleAlex Clark: Plone Secrets 5: The Community
This is a non-technical post on the Plone community, why it's so great, how it functions, and some details that may help one understand it from the outside looking in (AKA The "secrets") Size and...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers
SSH keys are useful to login over ssh (secure shell) without typing a password. They are also used by Github and other version control systems for passwordless authentication. Here is some basic...
View ArticleLennart Regebro: Python/Plone/Web winter event?
I’m conducting a little poll on making a small winter Conference/Unconference/Sprint here in Poland. It would be during winter 2014, if there is enough interest. Please share to people in the Python...
View ArticleNathan Van Gheem: All things Plone UI
Sprint During the Plone conference I put on a UI sprint. We had about a dozen participants and it was vastly successful in getting people into the fold and recruiting people to help out on the Plone UI...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: Mountain Lion
IANAME (I Am Not A Mac Expert), but I have recently upgraded my MacBook Pro from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Some pointers follow. Get the software Just open the App Store...
View ArticleLennart Regebro: Self-publishing a book, Part 3: Editing and Reviewing
Part 1: Why and How Part 2: My tool chain When you use a major publisher, you’ll get an editor that is responsible for making the book a good book. But when self-publishing, the one responsible for the...
View ArticleErico Andrei: Soy loco por ti América
It all began with PythonBrasil (back in the day we called it PyCon Brasil) in 2005, then in 2009 Argentina followed and now we have four South American PyCon editions thanks to Uruguay and Venezuela....
View ArticleReinout van Rees: My vagrant setup on OSX
I said in using vagrant for developing on OSX: why? that I chose vagrant for setting up my development environment. Now it's time for some specifics. Vagrant box setup and location Per virtual...
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