Asko Soukka: Embedding Robot Framework tests and keywords into Sphinx...
Robot Frameworkships 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 ArticleAsko Soukka: Create custom views for Dexterity-types TTW
Plone 4.3will ship with Dexterity, the new content type framework of Plone. One of the many great features in Dexterity is the schema editor, which makes it possible to create new content types...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Overview of the new Robot Framework goodies for Plone
Greetings from Plone testing sprint!I had never been in Barcelona before, and to be honest, I didn't really see much of the city yet. The sprint, however, was great, fun and well organized. Thank you...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Cross-browser test your Plone add-on with Robot Framework,...
Thanks to Rok Garbas, I became aware of Sauce Labsduring the Plone testing sprint.Finally, I had some time to try it myself, and I managed to make it work pretty well with Robot Framework and...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Generate annotated screenshots with plone.app.robotframework
Greetings from Sorrento, from Plone Open Garden 2013. The symposium/sprint was amazing, with the greatest possible venue, the nicest community out there and my most productive sprint days so far....
View ArticleNoe Nieto: Moving a Plone site from AWS to webfaction
Moving a Plone site from AWS to webfactionI’ve been helping my friends with their Plone site for some years now. Initially, the site was hosted on IntoVPS, which is quite cheap and nice to setup....
View ArticleLennart Regebro: Development workflow and architecture
Back in the stone-age, when I started programming, the main development paradigms was “bottom-up” or “top-down”. Essentially, if you created the overall structure of the program first, and then started...
View ArticleBlue Dynamics: How to migrate non-folderish to folderish Archetypes based...
Non-folderish content types are missing some BTree attributes, which folderish content types have (See Products.BtreeFolder2.BTreeFolder2Base._initBtrees). plone.app.folder provides an upgrade view to...
View ArticleJorgen Modin: Plone training in London July 2-4
We will be back with Plone Training, with a three day course July 2 -4 2013 in London.
View ArticleMax M: How to export all redirects from portal_redirection in an older Plone...
Just add the method below to the RedirectionTool and call it from the browser as:http://localhost:8080/site/portal_redirection/getAllRedirectsAssuming that the site is running at loaclhost:8080 that is...
View ArticleMax M: Export of member data from Plone as a CSV file
I needed to export member data from Plone for mail merging etc. There was nothing really suitable available so I wrote this small product for it.The manual is:Install "portal_memberdata_export" with...
View ArticleMax M: Python Unicode lessons from the school of hard knocks
Unicode is becomming increasingly popular, but is often misunderstood. That is a pitty, as it is really not that difficult. Especially since unicode is a really powerfull tool to know, and it becomes...
View ArticleMax M: Python eggs - a Simple Introduction
Python eggs used to be the wave of the future. But for Zope and Plone developers this has evolved into a true tsunami. They are everywhere now.Yet there is a lot of confusion of what they are and how...
View ArticleMax M: Installing ZMySQLDA in Zope using buildout on Ubuntu and perhaps...
Another note to future self. This is how I did it.libmysql++-devTo make Zope work with Mysql I needed to compile the database adapter. For this I needed the mysql dev libraries. On Ubuntu that is done...
View ArticleMax M: Installing Python, Zope and Plone on Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon
Last time I installed plone on a Ubuntu system, I wrote a log of what I did. It might be that I am getting old, but I cannot seem to remember how I do it from time to time. So this is as much a note to...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Powerful composition with Obviel data-render
Obviel is the client side web framework I've been hacking on for the past few years. It has among many other things a client-side template language called Obviel Template. Obviel Template has a bunch...
View ArticleMax M: TV ... it has 5 good years left - if it is lucky
In 10 years TV will be severely decimated. in 20 years it will not exist any more. Not as we currently know it at least.It will be easier and less expensive to produce video content from now on. It is...
View ArticleAbstract Developers: PLOG 2013: a final report on the italian Plone event.
More than 50 plonistas from various countries animated the PLOG in Sorrento, on the first week of April 2013. Abstract wishes to thank everyone of them for a stellar event, the best PLOG ever,...
View ArticleSimples Consultoria: Collective.cover video
Check out this amazing screencast showing some collective.cover features. This vídeo was created and published by our friend Maurizio Delmonte (@mizodiel). Thank you very much for that!...
View ArticleMikko Ohtamaa: Exporting and sharing Sublime Text configuration
Sublime Text is a very powerful and popular text editor. But it’s more than a text editor… it’s an ecosystem of programmer’s tools where you can go to armory and choose the winning set for every code...
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