Posts

• Apr 19, 2021

  Proposal: Federated OpenAPI Gateway

  Let's build a Federated OpenAPI Gateway

• Jan 31, 2021

  The Exploitation of Open Source

  A reflection in the different ways open source is exploited with open source services

• Jun 11, 2019

  Scaling Python Web Applications: AsyncIO vs Threads

  A comparison of how well python web applications scale

• Feb 16, 2019

  Building pyrocksdb on ubuntu

  How to build pyrocksdb with python

• Sep 17, 2018

  Why Plone Resource Registries Happened

  Reflective on what went wrong with resource registries

• Jul 15, 2018

  Update Cloudflare DNS settings with Python

  Automatically update cloudflare DNS settings with python when you have a dynamic IP

• Sep 27, 2017

  Persistent RabbitMQ Connections and Python AsyncIO

  Properly maintaining persistent RabbitMQ connections with Python AsyncIO

• Jun 3, 2017

  Embedding Go and groupcache in Python

  Exploration on embedding the awesome Go groupcache library into Python

• Mar 29, 2017

  Managing Open Source Contributions

  Tips on managing your open source contributions

• Feb 21, 2017

  Using Google to login to your Plone site with authomatic

  Tutorial on integratingthepas.plugins.authomatic addon into the Plone CMS

• Sep 17, 2016

  Building a Castle: Part 3, Mosaic

  In Castle, we've built all content to be Mosaic enabled to give users a powerful and consistentcontent manage experience.

• Jul 31, 2016

  Building a Castle: Part 2, Focal point images

  Making adding, managing and using images easier for content editors.

• Jul 23, 2016

  Building a Castle: Part 1, an Introduction

  Details on building the Castle CMS distribution of Plone at Wildcard.

• Jun 23, 2016

  How to Add Code Snippet Syntax Highlighting Your Plone Theme

  Simple how to on adding syntax highlighting to your plone diazo theme.

• Jun 23, 2016

  Generate Signed URL for Amazon S3 Storage in Python

  Generate Signed URL for Amazon S3 Storage in Python

• Feb 3, 2016

  The JavaScript Obsession

  Why the obsession of tools and frameworks in JavaScript software engineering is unavoidable and should be embraced

• Jan 14, 2016

  Plone 5 Upgrade Without UUID Links

  Convert a site not using UUID links to make it use UUID.

• Oct 1, 2015

  Top Five New Plone 5 Features

• Jul 3, 2015

  Fixing z3c.form multi select widget bug in Plone 4.3.6

  Latest z3c.form has a nasty select widget bug that prevents data form being edited.

• Feb 14, 2015

  Customizing JavaScript pattern settings in Plone 5

  There are a couple ways to customize some default pattern options coming in Plone 5.

• Feb 6, 2015

  Updating JavaScript for Plone 5

  An example in Plone core.

• Sep 9, 2014

  Plone 5 Resource Registries

  A brief exploration of the new Resource Registries in Plone 5.

• May 3, 2014

  PROTECTING YOUR WEB APPS WITH 2-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

  Overview of using factored software to add 2-factor authentication for your web application

• Jan 22, 2014

  Resumable file uploads with wildcard.foldercontents

  How to enable resumable file uploads in wildcard.foldercontents.

• Jan 22, 2014

  Introduction tus python package

  The tus python package aims to provide support for resumable file uploads.

• Dec 28, 2013

  New diazo theme, some xslt hints

  Updated the site with a new diazo theme and sharing some xslt Diazo hints.

• Jul 26, 2013

  Plone 5 Widgets Sneak Peak

  A preview of the new widgets for Plone 5 and other details related the UX/UI improvements going on.

• Oct 26, 2012

  All things Plone UI

  A summary of things related UI going on.

• Aug 7, 2012

  A better folder contents implementation

  wildcard.foldercontents overrides plone's default folder contents to provide more functionality.

• Jun 19, 2012

  New Plone collections and it how it might affect you

  Summary of new collections, what it means for existing addons and how developers can be compatible with new and old.

• Apr 29, 2012

  Document Viewer Integration in Plone

  Presenting the collective.documentviewer package for plone that allows you to display PDFs and other office documents.

• Feb 24, 2012

  collective.plonetruegallery 2.x demonstration

  Demonstrating some of the features of the collective.plonetruegallery 2.x series.

• Sep 20, 2011

  High Availability Varnish Configuration for Plone

  How to get varnish to continue serving out stale, content when your backend may be down.

• Aug 27, 2011

  Plone 3.3.5 on Mac OS X Lion

  Some tips for Plone 3 on Lion.

• May 25, 2011

  Fixing Broken ZODB Object references

  I'm not an expert on this by any means, but here are some notes on my latest episode.

• Apr 15, 2011

  Notes on a More Secure Plone Deployment

  Some things to think about if you're planning on providing a more secure Plone site. While Plone is a very secure CMS with an incredible track record, there are still plenty of things you can do to protect sites that might be larger targets.

• Apr 14, 2011

  Using Plone as a Document Repository

  Sharing my experience in using plone to OCR PDF documents and displaying the documents in the browser with Flex Paper.

• Mar 23, 2011

  gunicorn startup script for Django

  with multiple servers

• Jul 31, 2010

  nginx with built in load balancing and caching

  nginx can do it all. Short example to get nginx going with buildout to provide load balancing and caching.

• Jun 25, 2010

  Running Plone 4b4 with Zope 2.13.0a1

  Just some guidelines on getting Plone 4b4 to work with the new Zope 2.13 release to save you some time.

• Jun 9, 2010

  pysourcesearch

  A simple repoze.bfg application for searching python packages and sets of packages utilizing repoze.catalog.

• May 31, 2010

  Running Plone 4 with a Zope2 WSGI

  Guide to running Plone 4 with the Zope2 WSGI branch

• May 15, 2010

  Plone 4 Upgrade

  Thoughts on moving the server to Plone 4.

• Mar 20, 2010

  repoze.zope2 with Deliverance locking up

  How to make sure your repoze.zope2 wsgi setup with Deliverance will not lock up on you.

• Feb 15, 2010

  Add Eject Button To Boxee

  Boxee is great, but how could they have forgotten the eject button?

• Feb 15, 2010

  Buildout to compile and install Apache, MySQL and PHP

  I created a buildout that will compile and install Apache2, MySQL5 and PHP5 together.

• Feb 11, 2010

  Installing PIL on Mac OS X Leopard virtualenv with easy_install

  What do you do when you need to install PIL in a virtualenv on Mac OS X and it won't build for you? I'll walk through getting it to work.

• Dec 10, 2009

  Site Update

  I just updated my server with a new and improved buildout. I am now using repoze.zope2, Deliverance and Zine in the setup to make it wsgi'd. In this post I provide an overview of the setup.

• Nov 20, 2009

  Upgrades to collective.plonetruegallery

  With the advent of the collective.plonetruegallery 0.8 series, a lot of improvements have been introduced.

• Jan 31, 2009

  Creating and subscribing to events in Zope

  This will show you how to create events and subscribe to them using Zope 3 approaches. These methods will also work in Plone.

• Jan 31, 2009

  Using a BrowserView as a traversable adapter utility in Plone

  This will show you how to make a traversable multi-adapter on the context and request object that can be called within tal expressions and used as utilities elsewhere. It is done the exact same way as the plone_tools, plone_context_state, plone_portal_state BrowserViews you see used often throughout Plone viewlets and tal expressions.

• Jan 31, 2009

  Using the zope debug console

  A short howto on using the zope debug console.

• Jan 3, 2009

  ssh tricks

• Jan 3, 2009

  Automatically Pack The ZODB

  This just goes over how you can automatically have the ZODB packed once a day. Does not use a cron job either.

• Jan 3, 2009

  Backing Up Plone

  Simple reference for backing up plone...

• Jan 3, 2009

  Deploying Egg

  Just a quick ref....

• Jan 3, 2009

  Give Each Plone Site A Data.fs

  Separate each Plone instance into having its own Data.fs to make backups easier.

• Jan 2, 2009

  Using A Proxy In Mac OS X With SSH

  This little tutorial will show you how to use a proxy server on Mac OS X with only SSH installed on your proxy server. This involves getting Firefox to use the SOCKS server and Cocoa applications.

• Dec 31, 2008

  Find process in terminal on linux

  This simple commands helps in finding certain processes to kill in linux....

• Dec 30, 2008

  Run Process In Background command

  How to run process in the background while sending the output to a log file. I use this command to start cherrypy.

• Dec 22, 2008

  Plone Localization

  Documenting my experience on adding French Language support to collective.plonetruegallery. Good reference for how to do localization support in Plone products.

• Nov 4, 2008

  Plone boot and shutdown startup script

  example script of what is placed in your /etc/init.d directory. Credits go to T. Kim Nguyen on this.

• Nov 4, 2008

  Building svn on SuSe 10.3 Enterprise Edition

  Credits go to T. Kim Nguyen on this

• Oct 24, 2008

  Content in perpetual lock state in Plone. Duh!

  If you ever have an issue where content can't be unlocked no matter what you do, you might want to look at portal_migration in the ZMI. You may have forgotten to upgrade your site.

• Oct 24, 2008

  collective.plonetruegallery picasa bugs fixed

  People were getting errors using public picasa galleries. This fix includes creating and leaving google data objects in memory so I'm not constantly recreating throughout the longevity of the site.

• Oct 18, 2008

  New Releases of PloneTrueGallery 0.6b1 and ATImageEditor 0.3

  A new release has been cut for both collective.plonetruegallery and uwosh.ATImageEditor.

• Oct 17, 2008

  plone browser layers

  Browser layers are used to specify views and resources and are only specific to your plone site. It is much like what a theme does, you just don't need to select the theme in the site settings. It works on a per site basis and is only enabled when your product is installed.

• Sep 13, 2008

  p4a on Plone 3.1 buildout

  Getting p4a.ploneaudio, p4a.plonevideo is a little difficult on Plone 3.1. Here is the buildout that shows how to do it.

• Aug 30, 2008

  Recover Images From Formatted drive

  how to recover images from a formatted or damaged drive

• Aug 30, 2008

  Fix Hardy Heron Slow Wireless

• Jun 28, 2008

  SVN Reference

  various useful svn stuff...

• Jun 28, 2008

  Installing mySQL in Ubuntu

  Short howto of the commands I went through to install mySQL in Ubuntu

• Jun 17, 2008

  Apache, Squid, Buildout

  Example buildout with apache and squid

• Jun 10, 2008

  Plone with Apache Front End on Ubuntu

  How you can use apache to manage multiple plone instances and take care of the ugly urls

• May 30, 2008

  Rapid Plone Development Presentation

  Presentation given to the Plone Slow Jog group on the campus of UW Oshkosh.

• May 22, 2008

  Customizing Widget Used On Existing Content Types

  Shows how you would go about customizing the widgets used on existing content types.

• May 21, 2008

  Custom Fields in Smart Folders Cont.

  This is an improved way of doing what we did in the previous post. This is completely done through code on install.

• May 14, 2008

  Use Custom Fields in Smart Folders Plone 2.5

  This shows how you can add new columns/fields to sort by and retrieve in your smart folders for new content types. This is useful if you have custom content types that you want to still use smart folders with.

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