I live in Europe, I'm a geek, so I must also be a boardgame freak. I love games, and especially German style boardgames, with their intricate rules. Unfortunately, there's not much time to play, and not a lot of people that I can play with. Following a link on boardgamesgeek.com I've stumbled on this website, an online portal of boardgames that you can play, something similar to IGS (the Internet Go Server), but that implements loads of boardgames to be played in multiplayer style. [...]
To insert a rendered viewlet manager into a page, one uses something like "tal:replace="structure provider: ILeftSide". Of course, viewlet managers are providers, they implement the IContentProvider interface and are looked up with this interface in the 'provider' TALES handler. One particular trick that content providers do is that they allow insertion of TAL data from the template, to make it accessible inside the content provider class. A sort of "parameters", as it is detailed in the README. [...]
Getting the traverse subpath in Zope 2 is relatively easy and involves almost no tricks. Doing the same thing in Zope3 is a bit more involved, but nevertheless still relatively easy. What might not be obvious at first is how to traverse to the page from Python code. Call me slow, but it took me about 2 minutes to think of the solution.
The idea is: I have a page along these lines: http://localhost/site/tips/page_context/next. [...]
In the saga to make my laptop behave as best as I can I've encountered a new obstacle: using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (the beta) with kubuntu-desktop installed and using KDE, I can put the laptop in suspend mode, but the CPU fan won't turn on when I wake it. After a bit of searching I've found out that I need to do:
root@ubuntu:~# echo 0 > /proc/acpi/fan/C262/stateThis starts the fan. Writing 3 in that fan ACPI state will turn off the fan. [...]
Today, on the front page of Slashdot, there was a link for an open source server monitoring & system management application. Well, what do you know, it runs on Zope 2! The visible source code is here [...]
I've found a weird issue while trying to debug why on of my Ajax loaded forms wasn't, apparently, properly validated. Even though that the schema specified that the fields are required, the form action would get executed as if the validation wouldn't have been done or the request was properly validated. I thought at first that there's an issue with the form class/handling itself, but after some testing I came to the conclusion that it has to be the way I'm doing the AJAX request. [...]
I thought I'd put a link here for a source of great entertainment of mine: The Knights of the Dinner Table. Hope you'll be as entertained as I am every time I'm watching them or reading the KODT comic strip.
And another link: Barbarian Prince, a downloadable solitaire game, a mixture of boardgame/RPG/choose your own adventure. I found a review of this game in the KODT comics magazine, but there are a couple of other games there, for two players or solitaire. [...]
Problem: I need to get the skin name for a Zope 3 interface registered as skin.
Solution
Starting with Zope 3.3, the skinning mechanism has been simplified and skins are now just interfaces. This means that a skin interface is now a named utility for the IBrowserSkinType. To get the name with which this class has been registered as an utility, something along these lines is needed:
>>> from myapp.layer import IMyAppSkin [...]
I've recently "rediscovered" Freeciv. I'm a very casual gamer (15 minutes/day), but also an old, addicted, Civilization fan. Lately I've been looking for a nice game to play on my Linux desktops and I've found that Freeciv is finally getting some good graphics, as this was my biggest turn off I've had with it before. I've tried first the SDL client on Windows, but it is buggy and tends to freeze its popup windows. [...]
I've got to deploy a new desktop based application, created, of course, with Zope 3. When you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, indeed. This application uses HTML and CSS as its presentation layer (right, it's a web page), with a bit of Ajax thrown in. Due do time constraints, I'm not even trying to get it to work properly on Internet Explorer (although it looks about 90% right, but I have some problems with Javascript), so I won't be embeding the Internet Explorer this time engine in my Python application, I'll just try to get the Gecko rendering engine, the one used in Firefox. [...]