Andreas Jung: Do we still need the Plone Collective?
Historically the Plone Collective has been a collaboration spaces for open-source projects in the field of Plone. The Collective was hosted for a long time on the SVN infrastructure of the Plone...
View ArticleAsko Soukka: Stay accessible: Robot Framework library for WAVE Toolbar
WAVE Web Accessibility Tool is a popular service for detecting accessibility issues on your websites. WAVE Toolbar is an offline version of the service, distributed as a downloadable, self-installable,...
View ArticleLennart Regebro: blog.star 1.2 released
collective.blog.*, or just blog.star for short, is a suite of blogging modules for Plone. It is primarily designed for integrators. Most people who use Plone for blogging also uses Plone as a...
View ArticleLennart Regebro: My defunct modules
I’ve gone through my modules on the CheeseShop and made sure the information about them is up to date. Most importantly, I’ve marked the following modules as “Development Status :: 7 –...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Non-trusted mercurial .hgrc on a Vagrant virtualbox
I use Vagrant and virtualbox for developing inside ubuntu on OSX. I have a couple of mercurial (hg) checkouts and they were giving me grief:$ hg up Not trusting file /some-repo/.hg/hgrc from untrusted...
View ArticlePlone.org: PloneFormGen vulnerability requires immediate upgrade
PloneFormGen, a widely used response-form-creation add-on for the Plone Content Management System, has been discovered to have a serious vulnerability that allows an anonymous attacker to execute...
View ArticleLennart Regebro: Pyroma 1.3.1 released
Update: After another bug report I realized I didn’t have a check that there are distributions uploaded to the Cheeseshop. This despite being a pet peeve of mine that people don’t upload distributions...
View ArticleNetsight Developers: Now recruiting: Client Liaison Manager
Netsight are looking for a client liaison manager. This role will encompass account management, customer relationship management and projectmanagement.Based in Berkeley Square, Clifton, we are one of...
View Article4teamwork: ftw.tooltip introduction - Add tooltips to your plone site
Plone has many great features, but sometimes it’s hard for a user to focus on the task at hand. Even more so if the user is not working with Plone all day.To make the UI more expressive and to provide...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Products.pipbox 1.0b2 was breaking Javascript...
Recently I had an extended battle with a Plone site that I upgraded to Plone 4.3. The site started life as a Plone 3 site and went through a series of upgrades and now runs on Plone 4.3. After...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Fixing a broken view on a Dexterity based product...
TL;DR: I totally missed that the new Dexterity now ships with less dependencies. For me this meant that one of my products that depends on five.grok stopped working after the upgrade. The solution to...
View ArticlePlone.org: EuroPython 2013 is approaching fast: Sign up now!
During the first week of July 2013, Florence, Italy will be the European capital of Python people.Let's proliferate Plone at EuroPython!We'd love to see a large number of Plone enthusiasts there,...
View ArticlePlone.org: Security vulnerability announcement: 20130611 - 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...
View ArticleQuintagroup: Python Reel: Free Plone Theme for 2013
Recently it was announced of the first release of a free Plone theme, designed and developed by Quintagroup: Python Reel, your Free Responsive theme for Plone 4.2.x that holds a great promise to...
View Article4teamwork: git - partially applying a patch
We are currently in the process of consolidating many of our packages for a large project into a single project.core package. We do this in order to simplify the dependency graph, testing, GitHub...
View Article4teamwork: download.zope.org is down - how to fix buildout
Currently download.zope.org seems to be down. When running a buildout installing Plone this is a problem since the Plone version configs extend from download.zope.org.Buildout throws an exception...
View ArticleSidnei da Silva: A tale of four proxies
As part of my job as Operations Engineer on the Ubuntu One team, I’m constantly looking for ways to improve the reliability and operational efficiency of the service as a whole.Very high on my list of...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Plone Upgrading Tip – Be careful with that Jquery...
Just a quick note. On a Plone 4.3 upgrade I had pinned an old version of collective.js.jqueryui. This caused a few issues including a broken editing interface. The solution was to pin...
View ArticlePloneConf 2013: Talk and Trainning submissions are open
The submission period for talks and training for Plone Conference 2013 and PythonBrasil[9] is open. Anyone can submit proposals from June 7th to June 30th. The procedure is simple: 1. Register yourself...
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