Ross Patterson: Plone lands on IIS!
Just in time for the scariest night of the year, my Windows installer work based on the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is finally ready to test. So PLEASE fire up your Windows VMs, try the Quick Start...
View ArticleRoss Patterson: WSGI apps on IIS
The iiswsgi module implements a FastCGI to WSGI gateway that is compatible with IIS's variation of the FastCGI protocol. It also provides distutils commands for building, distributing and installing...
View ArticlePlone.org: Security vulnerability announcement: 20120830 - Multiple vectors
CVE numbers not yet issued. Versions Affected: All current Plone versions. Versions Not Affected: None. This is a pre-announcement. Due to the severity of some of these issues, we are providing an...
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Connexions Blog: Connexions for Android 3.0 Released
Connexions for Android 3.0 is out and has a great new look. The menu items are now in the top Actionbar. Select the button with the 3 dots as seen in the screenshot to see a dropdown of options....
View ArticleRoss Patterson: Looking for Projects and/or a Team
I'm available and looking for new opportunities. My strengths are Python web programming, particularly Plone and Zope with strong testing skills and habits. See my LinkedIn profile or my Careers 2.0...
View ArticleRoss Patterson: Looking for Projects and/or a Team
I'm available and looking for new opportunities. My strengths are Python web programming, particularly Plone and Zope with strong testing skills and habits. See my LinkedIn profile or my Careers 2.0...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Plone training in London July 19-21
We've been doing a lot of development and consulting lately, but I want to go back to more teaching, in Plone and in other subjects. We did a Plone course in Stockholm in April this year and now we...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Technology for doing Plone on-line training
Summary: Skype, VNC and VirtualBox in combination works really well. I recently got a request for and did Plone online training (plug: there will be a Plone course in London in December), and it gave...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Run a plone zexp imported into a fresh Data.fs
Summary: You can't. The server will give an error. The trick is to create a bogus site in the new Zope server. This somehow modifies Zope, from what I have read on the Internet, the acl_users folder in...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Offloading downloads from Plone, (relatively) transparently
I've just built a first version of a system that offloads file downloads from the responsibility of Plone, while keeping authentication and authorization. With help from Apache and iw.fss, surprisingly...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Plone training in London July 19-21
We've been doing a lot of development and consulting lately, but I want to go back to more teaching, in Plone and in other subjects. We did a Plone course in Stockholm in April this year and now we...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: How to use Edge Side Includes (ESI) with Varnish in Plone
With ESI it is possible to cache the more or less static parts of Plone's pages in Varnish, and "fold in" the dynamic stuff per request. This can in some use cases increase performance massively....
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Plone training in London May 4-6
We've been doing Plone Training in London since 2005, but last autumn we were so swamped with consulting work back home that we could not make it. However we now have scheduled a course for May in...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Using a real log file to load test a server
Summary: These python scripts take a log file in the standard Apache combined format and load test a server of your choice (like a development server). You can speed up or slow down the simulation....
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Jorgen Modin: How to make a massive Zope/Plone undo through the web
Summary: http://localhost:8080/manage_UndoForm?PrincipiaUndoBatchSize:int=660 ....where 660 should be replaced with the number of transactions you need to go back. Then click like crazy. I had the...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Plone training in London March 27-29, 2012
We will do Plone training in London March 27-29. Same contents as usual, with the addition of Diazo skinning and Dexterity. We will most likely be at Portman Square (depending a bit on the size of the...
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Jorgen Modin: Getting comments to work in a Plone 3 to 4.1.5 upgrade
Summary The upgrade machinery from Plone 3 to Plone 4.1.5 does not upgrade the comments, you need to do that manually. Furthermore, folderish content types may find their commenting disabled. Read on...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: A Plone System Owners' Association?
Quite some time ago (okay, all the way back in 2009!), at a very well arranged world Plone day at Fry-IT in London we sat in groups brainstorming about what a Plone user group in the UK could be about....
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Front-orphaned reverse numbered batching to mitigate cache...
Update: I have just moved this blog to Plone 4, so the front-orphaned reverse numbered batching is not in place right now! With a standard Plone setup that this site used to have (and for many other...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Apologies to the readers of planet plone
Today I upgraded the blog from Plone 2.5 to Plone 4, via quintagroup transmogrifier and XML export and then import. It went very well, but: A side effect of that was that although the effective dates...
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