eGenix: eGenix at PyCon 2014 in Montreal
The PyCon conference, organized by the Python Software Foundation, is the premier conference for Python users and developers in North America. This year it is being held from April 9-17 in Montreal,...
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Franco Pellegrini: Emerald Sprint 2014
I had the chance to attend to another awesome sprint... Winter is ending and the 2014 edition of the Emerald Sprint is on! Another fantastic location, plonistas, designers, hot tub, beer and spirits......
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Connexions Developers Blog: New Name and New Editor Demo
In case you missed the announcement at the Connexions Conference this week, Connexions has been renamed to OpenStax CNX! Â We have also renamed this blog to OpenStax CNX Developer Blog. You can visit us...
View ArticleUW Oshkosh How-To's: Checking which ZEO client is in use
Sometimes you want to ensure that a Script (Python) runs only on a specific ZEO client. Â Here is some code that checks if the script is being executed on one of our non-public admin ZEO clients (which...
View ArticleUW Oshkosh How-To's: How to export/import portions of a Plone site
Some scenarios covered by this how-to:you want to migrate a Plone 3.0 site to Plone 3.1Â you want to copy the contents of a folder from one Plone site to another Plone siteThings you will need:Manager...
View ArticleUW Oshkosh How-To's: Assign Local Roles Through Workflow
If you are using PloneFormGen and the Save Data to Content Adapter (uwosh.pfg.d2c) you can give access to a D2C object based on a string field on your form.You will need a field to get the user's email...
View ArticleJC Brand: Collaborative editing of HTML with TinyMCE not going to happen soon
TL:DR: Collaborative editing doesn't work well with XML/HTML. Right now, the solution seems to be to use Markdown instead.During my talk on XMPP applications in Plone, someone asked whether I was aware...
View ArticleBlue Dynamics: Plone and NixOS Talks at Linuxtage.at
The Linuxtage.at in Graz is Austrians biggest freely accessible Event on Linux. Every year people from all over Austria and German speaking countries are coming. There are talks, workshops, exhibition...
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JC Brand: Plone 4 compatible release of Quills
Since I've started this site, I've been using Quills for blogging functionality in Plone. So far, it's been perfectly fine for my relatively simple needs and I haven't found a reason to change....
View ArticleJC Brand: New spelling and grammar checker for TinyMCE
The spellchecker "After the deadline" is now available as an add-on for TinyMCE in Plone. It's multilingual, open-source, platform agnostic and even does grammar checking.I've actually already added...
View ArticleJC Brand: Collaborative editing of HTML with TinyMCE not going to happen soon
TL:DR: Collaborative editing doesn't work well with XML/HTML. Right now, the solution seems to be to use Markdown instead.During my talk on XMPP applications in Plone, someone asked whether I was aware...
View ArticleJC Brand: Converse.js: XMPP instant messaging with Javascript
It is now possible to use converse.js, the Javascript from collective.xmpp.chat, in a standalone way, to communicate with any public Jabber account.Lately I've been spending time refactoring...
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Alex Clark: Bro, do you even Pillow?
Pillow is a fork of the Python Imaging Library. Here is an update on the status of the project.2.4.0 releasedPillow 2.4.0 is out! Here are the highlights:Indexed Transparency handled for conversions...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Morepath 0.1 released!
I've just released Morepath 0.1! This is Morepath's first ever proper release. Hurray! If you've been waiting for a release before trying Morepath, now is the time to stop waiting!Morepath is your...
View ArticleWichert Akkerman: Lingua 2 released
This new release was planned for a long time. I started working on it at the Pyramid NOLA sprint last February. Since I just finished a project and am looking for new work I had some time to finally...
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Jazkarta Blog: Rural sprinting
For the last three days, the Jazkarta team has been enjoying delicious meals lovingly prepared from local farm ingredients by Sally and her husband Doug, walks in the thawing New England woods, and...
View ArticleStarzel.de: Mastering Plone
tl;dr: We're giving our three-day "Mastering Plone" training in Munich (in english)During the course of this three-day training we will teach how to... wield the awesome features of Plone for maximum...
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keul: "General Type": a new criterion for Plone Collections
A new 1.2 version of plone.app.querystring has been released. There are some improvement and bugfix but I'm particularly interested in one new feature: customizable parsed query. Why?Some times ago I...
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Jazkarta Blog: Plone 5 and the 2014 Emerald Sprint
Back row l to r: Alec Mitchell, Spanky Kapanka, Eric Steele, Ian Anderson, Ross Patterson, Luke Bannon, Cris Ewing, Andy Leeb, Cal Doval, Chris Calloway. Front row l to r: Elizabeth Leddy, David Glick,...
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