I've opened a new blog, at http://vimzone.pixelblaster.ro It runs on the latest Plone 3, with the NottreDamme skin and Scrawl as the blogging product. I'll probably install also the QuillsEnabled extension. There's not a lot of content on it, although it's already almost 2 months old. It's a place for me to scribble things I know about VIM and use or discover. [...]
Ever since Plone 2.5 stopped being the hot new thing in the Plone world, the state of content internationalization support in Plone has been declining. Partly due to the difficulty of extending Zope 2 products, LinguaPlone has always been a hack, but at least back then it worked. These days I'm not heavily involved with Plone, but whenever I need to add LinguaPlone to a Plone 3 site, I cringe and weep, especially that those projects never allocate time for me to fix the obvious problems. [...]
I'm checking out a large repository and svn keeps getting blocked, for some reason (bad network, maybe). When running update again, it complains that the checkout should be cleaned, but the cleanup operation doesn't succeed, with something like this: tibi@xps:~/svn/vs/data$ svn cleanup svn: In directory '.' svn: Error processing command 'modify-wcprop' in '.' svn: 'setup.config' is not under version control Searching on then net for a solution didn't yield anything, so the one that I have found was to empty the . [...]
I've upgraded CacheFu (Products.CacheSetup) to the latest 1.2 for some of the websites that I manage, in a Plone 2.5 cluster. One of them had a problem that I haven't been able to track previously, due to limited time: on a reinstall of CacheSetup, due to product upgrades, CacheFu couldn't be installed anymore. The traceback was something like: this product has already been installed without Quickinstaller!failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File " [...]
While testing software to play music from a computer on my network, I have discovered Elisa, which is a wonderful piece of software built in Python and zope.interface. The package manager helpfully installed a python-zopeinterface package, which turned out to break one of the apps I've been working on (one of the packages that is used depends on a more recent version of zope.interface and breaks with a missing object import). [...]
One of my long-running projects involves a workflow where content is produced in a Plone site, with the data later extracted and processed in various ways (including scripting Scribus to layout this data in a book). Initially the site where the content was produced wasn't protected, so I could run a simple urllib script to download the content and process it using lxml. A recent change in the workflow security settings meant this script didn't work anymore and I had to remember how to login into a Plone site using urllib2. [...]
I admit, I didn't knew this until now. In the following construction: <div tal:content="somedict/keyname/someattr" /> "keyname" is taken as a string, it's the literal name of the key for the somedict mapping. To use a variable instead of the literal value of the key name, I used to do: <div tal:content="python somedict[key].someattr" /> Browsing through the zope.app.catalog code, I saw that there's actually a way to use the TALES syntax: [...]
While developing an application and writing some migration code (using zope.app.generations), I had the need to reset the generation number recorded in the database for my application to a version lower than the current generation number (because my generation code didn't run properly and I didn't want to create bogus generation files). To solve this issue, in a pdb prompt I had to run: (Pdb) db = self.request.publication.db (Pdb) conn = db. [...]
Last year, in December, I held a 3 day Zope 3 training for about 10 Zope 2 and Python programmers. For this training I had prepared a 50 pages booklet with some tutorials and reference information (most of it written by me especially for this occasion). The feedback was pretty positive, but only time will tell if I was succesful or not with my training. I have published the training material on Google Code in a project called z3ergo. [...]
A simple deployment of a Plone 2.5 site (I know, antiquated) means that the pages shown for anonymous users are loaded with JS and CSS content that they will not need. They are, usually, the biggest group of visitors, so it is important do make the pages load fast, to have a good impression for first time visitors. The introduction of the Resource Registry in Plone 2.5 makes it easy to set the order and the conditions to load each resource (and, as a result, the merging conditions between resource files), but there's no page to document what each JS file does, for example (AFAIK). [...]