Maurits van Rees: Dutch Python Web Meetup 21 March 2013
Remco Wendt starts this meeting off with some bad news.Malcolm Tredinnick passed away. He was a really major contributor to Django. He will be a big loss to the community.A UK company is claiming a...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Using Nullmailer and Mandrill for your Ubuntu Linux server...
Getting a good SMTP server for your small business web application is difficult. You usually rely on the your local VPS server provider having some kind of SMTP server in local network. Because email...
View ArticleTom Gross: Fixing a broken toplevel acl_users
Sometimes someone forgets his admin password. This is easy to reset with the adduser command of Zope. But what if someone removes the top level ZODB user manager? Use this commands to restore it in...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Varnish at the front of WordPress + Apache and Plone CMS...
When moving some sites to a new server I upgraded the Varnish cache server configuration serving this setup. Here are my notes how one can use Varnish at the front of virtual hosting.The setup is...
View ArticlePlone.org: Schedule of Talks for Plone Symposium Midwest Unveiled!
The schedule of talks for this year's inaugural Plone Symposium Midwest in Oshkosh Wisconsin is now available online.The symposium, running from June 2-9, 2013, will offer two full days of talks, as...
View ArticleRedTurtle: Funkload: a simple buildout to spread and run your test!
Recently we faced a performance issue on a Plone site, which has been reported to be slower than expected.The application, after a migration to a new hardware, has shown to be a bit lazy compared to...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Using Postfix and free Mandrill email service for SMTP on...
This blog posts discuss using Postfix mail server software and Mandrill SMTP service to send email out from your Linux server and web applications.Getting a good outgoing email service for your...
View ArticleBubbleNet: Howto fix "Failed to fetch http://xxx_i386.deb Size mismatch"
Note to selfWhile trying to install a package on Ubuntu with apt-get install, I got the following error :Failed to fetch http://xxx_i386.deb Size mismatchTo fix the problem, I had to enter the...
View ArticleAffinitic: Remove broken portlets programmatically
If you have specific broken portlets that needs to be removed from your Plone site, you will have to reinstall the product that contains your portlets, otherwise you will get this error :Traceback...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Building chat applications and robots for Skype
Command line is powerful interface. Everyone who has taken head first dive into UNIX and survived back to tell about it can confirm. However, you do not need to be a computer guru to interact with...
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Four Digits: Four Digits sponsors Arnhem Falcons
Four Digits has become main sponsor of the American Football club the Arnhem Falcons. Last Sunday was the first game on their new field in Arnhem.Last sunday the Arnhem Falcons played their first game...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: A working Plone 2.5.5 buildout
On a recent project I needed to get Plone 2.5.5 up and running. This is a note to self so I can get it done more quickly next time. It also reminds me how far we've come from the Plone 2.5.5 and early...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone.ro - Romanian community website
The new plone.ro is the regional portal of the romanian Plone community of users and developers: it aims to provide documentation about Plone in romanian, aggregation for the romanian community, and a...
View ArticlePlone.org: Earlybird Registration Deadline for Plone Symposium Midwest is...
The annual, educationally-themed Plone Symposium which has long taken place at Penn State University moves this year to the University of Wisconsin Oshkoshas the Plone Symposium Midwest. The event will...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Progress on the Plone Theming Guide
TL;DR; I'm working on a document that helps designers get started with Plone theming. It fits into the idea of making Plone more approachable. At the bottom of this post is a checklist of things needed...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Common Diazo Rules for Plone
Here is a list of rules that I have used in various situations when preparing a Diazo theme for Plone. If something is written in red below it represents a placeholder, you will need to replace the...
View ArticleRoss Patterson: Emerald Sprint Report Out
Thanks to the fabulous Seattle Plone folk, we had another west coast sprint, the Emerald Sprint, on lovely Camano Island. The focus was polishing Dexterity, it was a gorgeous location, a very...
View ArticleRoss Patterson: prgmr.com VPS: "We don't assume you are stupid"
I just wanted to drop a quick note praising prgmr.com for their excellent and very affordable VPS service. Unfortunately, I had to change hosting providers for other reasons but would have been happy...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Github test commit reports for teams
I recently wrote githubinfo. It is a quick and handy script that queries the github API of one or more organizations and gives you a simple report on the amount of commits with tests in the last week.I...
View ArticleJC Brand: Converse.js: XMPP instant messaging with Javascript
Lately I've been spending time refactoring converse.js the Javascript library used by collective.xmpp.chat the instant messaging add-on for the Plone CMS. My goal is to make it usable on it's own,...
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