It took me a couple of hours to track this (I was just starting a new project using jQuery), but I finally nailed it: jQuery version 1.2.2 has a problem with loading JSON data from absolute urls. Use the trunk version and you'll be fine. [...]
When developing a Zope 2 site, the way the templates would be laid out is obvious: create a template for the site layout, use macros and slots to fill in that template and use the CMF skin overriding mechanism when you have to customize a certain template or Python script for another skin. Plone has been using this mechanism very successfully. With Zope 3 the path is not very clear. There are several mechanisms, each with its advantages and disadvantages. [...]
Ever since I've started working with zc.buildout I've grown to love the whole "environment as project" setup that it provides: eggs and python packages are installed and contained in the buildout and they don't polute the system packages. There is another alternative: workingenv, which, while simpler in scope, it is easier to setup and use. For example, recently I've wanted to see if lxml 2.0 can be installed in my system. [...]
Lately it has been possible to develop and simply deploy a Zope 3 based application by organizing code in a single Python package that uses zope3 packages as dependency, plus a buildout recipe that creates a running zope 3 instance based on these eggs. For anyone using Eclipse + PyDev, this approach has the following inconvenience: the `eggs` folder can't be properly imported as external source folder for the project. Eclipse knows about eggs, but only when they're in marked in a . [...]
I'm working on a larger project, with various components and one of the components is producing content with Plone which is then to be imported into Indesign, where each item from Plone gets to fill in a 2 page template. There are about 500 of these items, so this can't be done manually. InDesign is stupid (or maybe plugin friendly / commercially clever) enough that, even though it can import XML files and even perform XSLT transformations on them and has a " [...]
I've updated the Zope & Plone tips and tutorials section with a bunch of new pages and several additions to the svn.zope.org package listing. I thought it might be interesting to highlight this here, I'm not exactly sure how visible (or interesting!) is that section to the readers of this blog. [...]
I've been thinking lately at the purpose of this blog, what it wants to be, what is really a blog and what I should write here. The number of posts have gone down in the last half of year, partly due to increased work load and partly due to some restructuring that I have done. In general, I'm unhappy about posting small tips and bits of information on the blog, that's why I have created a Tips & Tutorials section on this site. [...]
I'm not a GFX or 3d programmer, but looking at this blog entry, I understand that these guys are getting ready a way to run Python based software in the GPU. I wonder what kind of speed improvements can be achieved through that, although I fear that it's only going to work for numeric type of programs. [...]
lovely.tag is a nice package that has almost all the functionality one can desire from a tagging engine. Recently I needed to integrate it with some of my content types (but not exactly as a tagging widget, but as a global registry for a global vocabulary), so I've created a couple of new widgets (an AJAX based multi-autocomplete one, based on z3c.widget.autocomplete and an add/remove widget, based on Plone's 3rd party AddRemoveWidget). [...]
I may sound like a fanboy or something, but I'm starting to think that it's impossible to have a perfect piece of software, especially with larger systems. Two things that happened to me lately that made me think this: How lame is that Windows doesn't automount USB sticks when they're present at boot time? Why would I have to remove+reinsert the stick just so Windows will see the bloody thing? My Kubuntu, of course, handles perfectly everything in this department (at least in my case). [...]