Reinout van Rees: PUN: Python Usergroup Nederland: what is it?
Summary: 6-8 free meetings per year with a couple of talks and some drinks afterwards. Find new meetings on the Dutch Django association meetup page.The Python Usergroup Netherlands (PUN) is "that...
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Alex Clark: New Pyramid Site
For the first time in 10 years, aclark.net is not powered by Plone. Nothing against Plone: it's still one of the greatest loves of my life (inasmuch as you can love a software and community, as I...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Charming social media icons with Font Awesome and CSS3
In this blog post I’ll show you how to create and style social media icons (Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc.) easily for your site using Font Awesome font icons.Font Awesome provides an iconset as...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Meet Plone: The most awesome open source community in the world
This is my World Plone Day 2013 presentation, held in World Plone Day event at University of Jyväskylä. The slides are also available on slideshare.net.The story below. Subscribe to this blog in a...
View ArticleAndreas Jung: Position paper on "Produce & Publish Cloud Edition" published
We are currently planning a complete new architecture for Produce & Publish in order to bring web-based publishing another step forward.Please read our position paper on Produce & Publish Cloud...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Debug SMTP server one-liner
If you are doing web development there is often need to emulate and intercept outgoing email. Email delivery is handled by SMTP protocol. Production and staging server have fixed SMTP servers available...
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Abstract Developers: Mind to share your Plone Extensions?
In Sorrento we had a nice discussion about how to let "good", advisable and most used products bubble up, being more discoverable and easy to start up with (documentation, good quality, etc.).You can...
View ArticleAndreas Jung: ZOPYX beim diesjährigen WorldPloneDay 2013 Rheinland
ZOPYX Geschäftsführer Andreas Jung hat am 24. April 2013 beim diesjährigen WorldPloneDay Rheinland einen Vortrag zum Thema "Onkopedia - ein medizinisches Fachportal auf Basis von Plone" gehalten.Eine...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Make your Robot tests go Phantom
A new version of robotframework-selenium2library has just been released, and it (>= 1.2.0) comes with full support for PhantomJS, the famous headless WebKit browser. Thanks a lot to Jeremy for...
View ArticleJukka Ojaniemi: Whiskers - a tool for keeping track of your buildouts
Few years ago I released a first version of Whiskers together with buildout.sendpickedversions. It's about the time to push new version out.What is Whiskers?Whiskers is a Pyramid web application which...
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Abstract Developers: Plumi - video sharing and document management in one click
"Plumi is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone and produced by EngageMedia in collaboration with Unweb.me.Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video...
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...
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keul: How to make your Plone add-on products uninstall cleanly
This article contains practical informations, but also some personal opinions, about Plone install and uninstall tools. You are warned!PreambleRecently I worked on lot of Plone migration from Plone 3.x...
View ArticleIzak Burger: Setting up Xen on a Hetzner EX4
There are many howtos out there. This one is mine.The howtos that I consulted in setting this up were the following:Debian WikiUbuntu on XenXen auf DebianThe first thing I did was to upgrade the...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Converting presentation slides to HTML blog post with images
Here is a Python script to convert a PDF to series of HTML <img> tags with alt texts. It makes the presentation suitable embedded for a blog post and reading on a mobile device and such.The...
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Core Software Group: Automated Amazon EBS Volume Snapshots with Boto
Recently, we were asked by a client to setup regular EBS volume snapshots for their production EC2 instances. After a little research, Mike came across a fairly simple tool called aws-snapshot-tool:...
View ArticleVictor Fernandez de Alba: Refreshing folders in SublimeText2
Situation: You open a project in SublimeText2 with lots of files (e.g a buildout folder). At some point, ST2 stops showing you the contents of a folder (probably because of the lots of files it has to...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Getting started with Robot Framework and plone.app.testing
Selenium testing Plone doesn't need to be difficult. Actually, with the recent hard work done for robotframework-selenium2libraryit's the easiest way to test your add-ons! (Thanks a lot to these...
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Asko Soukka: Speed up your Plone add-on tests on Travis CI with the Unified...
Many thanks for Héctor Verlarde for encouraging us to try out Travis CI for testing our own Plone add-ons. Also, thanks for Godefroid Chapelle for showing me, how to run Selenium tests on a headless...
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