Martijn Faassen: Why Linux Works for Me
IntroductionI can't sleep because some weird Twitter interaction I had earlier. I shouldn't let it bother me, but it did. I received a retweet from someone I didn't know, saying: "Linux doesn't work....
View ArticleRok Garbas: Arnhem Sprint 2013 report
I arrived to Arnhem on Monday evening and sadly had to leave it on Friday morning. Which ment I had to miss an awesome Friday party at the Fourdigits office. But being there only 86 hours I knew I will...
View ArticleAndreas Jung: EuroPython 2014 in Berlin
Veranstalter rechnen mit bis zu 1200 BesucherDie nächste EuroPython wird vom 21. bis 27. Juli 2014 im bcc Berlin Congress Center mitten in Berlin stattfinden. Die EuroPython ist nach der PyCon US...
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Zopatista - Martijn Pieters: Easy in-place file rewriting
Using a context manager to allow painless rewriting of filesWhenever you need to process a file in-place, transforming the contents and writing it out again in the same location, you can reach out for...
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macagua:~/public/html#: I Dia de Plone en Venezuela
El Grupo Pythonistas venezolanos (PyVE) y el grupo local Plone Venezuela, tiene el agrado de invitar al público en general al “Día de Plone en Venezuela 2013”.Plone CMSLugar: Avenida Nueva Granada con...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Grok: the Idea
It's been a month since I posted an entry in this ongoing series, but I got positive feedback and the story is not over yet, so here's a new entry! I hope you enjoy it!Lost at CERNIn the summer of 2006...
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 ArticleMakina Corpus: My Plone Arnhem sprint report
IntroductionFirst I would like to thank Four Digits for hosting the sprint and Makina-Corpus for sponsoring my participation.The Arnhem sprint has been organized on co-activate. The main topic was...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Globally Set the Default Editor in Plone
After migrating a Plone 3 site to Plone 4.x I needed to switch all users from Kupu to TinyMCE. I made use of a package called collective.setdefaulteditor...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Implementing Grok
Towards the First Grok SprintI got the idea for Grok in the summer of 2006. In the fall I still hadn't done anything yet about it. Then I gave a talk at a German Zope User Group (DZUG) conference (the...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Plone Quickstart on the Cloud in less than 5...
(update: December 2, 2013, the script has been updated for Plone 4.3.2) I learnt about Nitrous.io from +Tarik Carey at the July Plone Jamaica Meetup. He suggested that I should check it out and see if...
View ArticleDavid "Pigeonflight" Bain: Plone the big picture
Plone is an application built on top of a collection of supporting frameworks. That's my big picture statement, I'm intentionally leaving out details, hopefully, this explanation is enough to help a...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Morepath App Reuse
I'm working on a new Python web microframework called Morepath, as I've mentioned before. Here's the code and here's a draft quickstart. Morepath is a microframework with a difference: it's small and...
View ArticleHanno Schlichting: Mozilla Location Service - The What, Why and Privacy
I'm currently working on the Mozilla Location Service and have been doing so for the last quarters. The project was finally announced more broadly over at the Mozilla Cloud Services blog in late...
View ArticleNoe Nieto: GTG: Enabling missing plugins for Fedora 20
GTG: Enabling missing plugins for Fedora 20I Like Get Things Gnome and fedora 20 brings GTG 0.3.1; but after installing it I realized that some plugins were not available. Where are they? This question...
View ArticlePlone.org: Plone 20131210 Hotfix Released
The Plone Security team has released the first of its 4-monthly hotfixes.
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Mikko Ohtamaa: bitcoinprices.js – human-friendly presentation of Bitcoin...
I’d like to introduce you to my weekend project, bitcoinprices.js.bitcoinprices.js is a JavaScript library for human-friendly Bitcoin price presentation and conversion. bitcoinprices.js can be dropped...
View ArticlePlumi: Plumi Hosting
Web Net Hosting are offering Plumi hosting. They offer three options: dedicated server, VPS cloud and shared hosting.http://www.webnethosting.net/plumi-hosting/ We are hoping to try this out and report...
View ArticleAndreas Jung: EuroPython 2014 Conference in Berlin at the bcc Berlin Congress...
Organizers expect up to 1,200 attendees
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