April Newsletter
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Issue #15
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Upcoming Events
Plone Symposium Tokyo; June 13; Tokyo, Japan
Anniversary Sprint 2015; Jun 22–26; Arnhem, The Netherlands
Plone Conference 2015; Oct 12–18; Bucharest, Romania
Announcements
PloneIntranet Website is Online!
The new website of the Intranet Consortium has gone online.
Plone Conference Bucharest 2015 Website Launched
We are excited to announce that the website for the Plone Conference 2015 to be held in Bucharest is now live...
PLOG and WPOD Event Summaries
1st WPOD (World Plone Office Day) Recap
Last Friday the first WPOD happened around the globe. Here is what was done on the Berlin gathering...
Plone Open Garden 2015 - The Right Chance for Discussing and Planning
During the 10th year of activity of Abstract (happy birthday!), the 9th edition of the PLOG has been a great success. The lower number of technical talks was a precise choice in order to be able to properly discuss what we want Plone to be in 5 years from now.
Rewieving PLOG 2015 in Sorrento, Italy
Again this year Plone Open Garden (PLOG) took place in Sorrento, Italy from April 7th-11th 2015. The Plone Foundation designated the conference a strategic summit, where developers from the community meet and plan the future of Plone.
PLOG Wednesday Noon: Backend PLOG Thursday Morning Talks
PLOG Thursday RESTapi Current Status
PLOG Friday Evening Report-Out
Assorted Articles
This blog post is about comparing two popular development tools and text editors, Sublime Text and PyCharm to each other. This blog post is written from the perspective of professional software development or if the programming is what you do for living.
Kudos to KCRW for the vision, Hard Candy Shell for the design, the Plone content management system for providing a great platform...
The Diazo Snippets Chrome Extension
While building out your Diazo themes, have you ever needed to include a slideshow or transform a drop down menu so that it is compatible with the Bootstrap or Foundation grid systems?
Change Factory Knowledge Platform
After articulating this concept into an interaction design and visual design, Cosent built the site in Plone CMS. An initial crew of editors seeded the site with initial content. Recently, the platform was publicly unveiled and immediately attracted scores of active users.
Plock is a Plone installer for the pip-loving crowd.
Cefla Dental Group Renews Portfolio Sites at IDS 2015
As a technology partner of the Dental Division of Cefla, we were faced with the contemporary redesign of all portals in record time.
eGenix mxODBC Zope DA 2.2.1 GA
eGenix is pleased to announce mxODBC Zope DA™ version 2.2.1, our popular Plone/Zope ODBC Database Adapter...
Testing Pull Requests and Multi-Repository Changes
At Plone we use Continuous Integration (with Jenkins) to keep us aware of any change made on any of our +200 of packages that break the tests.
Replacing Faculty Staff Directory
As Plone moves away from Archetypes and embraces the Dexterity content type framework, the Plone community needs to decide what to do about old but important add-ons like FSD.
Python Posts
Inspecting Thread Dumps of Hung Python Processes and Test Runs
Sometimes, moderately complex Python applications with several threads tend to hang on exit.
Server Templating in Morepath 0.10
Morepath 0.10's biggest new feature is server-side templating support.
In this article I'm going to talk about how to manage software (Python) projects with buildout or pip.
Pillow Fighter #2 Eric Soroos had some time constraints recently so I managed the Pillow 2.8 release. While preparing the release I also reviewed and updated the entire project, including...
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