Calvin Hendryx-Parker loves the ZODB.  As well he should — it’s an amazing database that continues to be waaay ahead of its time.  Object databases are great for content management, it’s a shame to see so many folks stuck in SQL-only modes of thinking....

Open source web content management systems are starting to gain some traction in the enterprise as the ever growing need to be cost conscience continues. Most organizationd are looking for a single solution to manage multiple sites -- whether they be microsites for marketing or full fledged websites...

Open source web content management systems are starting to gain some traction in the enterprise as the ever growing need to be cost conscience continues. Most organizations are looking for a single solution to manage multiple sites -- whether they be microsites for marketing campaigns or fully fledg...

“Vive le wecena libre !” comme qui dirait l’autre. Ce petit message pour signaler à ceux que cela intèresse que j’ai libéré le code qui me permet de faire tourner wecena.com. En d’autres termes, ce logiciel libre est désormais distribué (publiquement) sous licence...

Now that the site is has been upgraded we should be posting more content on the site.  Working on the upgrade of the site took longer then expected and took us away from posting new content for the past few weeks.  We are planning to be adding a "true" mobile site just like what we did for...

Karl Horak, A.K.A. Schlepp, has started an initiative that he calls the Great Backyard Plone Count - GBPC. Modeled after the Audubon Society’s Great Backyard Bird Count, the GBPC attempts to survey Plone sites in the wild. The general idea is that everyone in the Plone Community spends time ea...

Now that i’m getting a bit more familiar with zope (2), rather than blog every time I work out how to do things that are blindingly obvious to most zope developers, i’ve started a zope cheat sheet, to keep track of bits and pieces of example code that took me a fair amount of googling, s...

I am developping a couple of Plone 3.x products. They have some tests, including a huge functional doctest which takes a long time to run (about a couple of hours !) but covers some of my most interesting use cases. I wanted to use these tests in order to get some insights about possible performance...

As of this week, and much to my surprise, I’m officially a published author! Along with a dozen other talented Plone community members, I contributed three chapters to Practical Plone 3: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Powerful Websites.  A modest contribution the annals of technical non...

I’m pleased to say i’ve achieved another of my 2009 goals, by launching the (unfinished) new version of one of my personal projects Too Old To Skate. The main site is now running php/codeigniter based sweetcron, which is used to pull content in from the original wordpress, flickr, delici...