Blog - 2008
Plone 3: Showing ...
Dec 19, 2008
The simplest way I've found so far, which is not as simple as it should be, is as follows:
Python Shows Continual ...
Nov 25, 2008
Python is a mature, flexible language that allows developers to concentrate on business solutions rather than technology problems, and ...
PyPI mirror setup
Nov 19, 2008
We've now got a PyPI mirror setup for use with easy_install and buildout. The host is pypi.netsight.co.uk. To use it add the following ...
Plone 3 global defines ...
Nov 13, 2008
If you're in a page template and want to access something a little more complicated without writing a view class, try looking in this ...
Netsight to Showcase ...
Nov 02, 2008
Come see Plone in action at the Information Management Solutions 2008 Expo, 2nd - 4th December 2008, Earls Court Olympia, London.
World Plone Day 2008, ...
Nov 01, 2008
World Plone Day is a worldwide event to promote and educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using Plone in ...
Changing the preview ...
Oct 24, 2008 1 comment
If you are using an 'Image' field, and want to control the size of the image that base_edit or base_view will show, then you can do the ...
Netsight's Technical ...
Oct 14, 2008
Technical Director of Netsight, Matt Hamilton, has been elected to the Plone Foundation board. Matt was voted onto the board of seven ...
How To remove portlets ...
Sep 02, 2008
As of Plone 3.1, you can now hide portlets via generic setup. As an example, save this 'portlets.xml' to your profiles/default directory ...
Removing hosts from ...
Jul 11, 2008
ssh stores keys for hosts it knows about in ~/.ssh/known_hosts. This is used to detect if a host has changed or compromised. However, ...
Google protocol buffers
Jul 11, 2008
Google's system for serialising data to network/disk. Much simpler than XML to process and much quicker as well:
Online image resizing
Jul 04, 2008
When asked by family member how to resize and image on the linux laptop they were using... rather than try to explain gimp I found this ...
ArchGenXML and ArgoUML
Jul 03, 2008
If you use easy_install to install ArchGenXML you will find in the folder a python file called ArgoUMLProfileGenerator.py
OS X British PC keyboard ...
Jul 01, 2008 1 comment
If you are using a British PC keyboard with your Mac you will have undoubtedly found the key layout incorrect, as Macs use an ...
'here' is deprecated, ...
Jul 01, 2008
'here' has been deprecated for use in page templates (has been for some time) 'context' should always be used in it's stead. 'here' no ...
Sub-directories in a ...
Jun 20, 2008
If you have sub-directories (e.g. "banners") within one of your registered skins directories, and you disable debug mode, you must have ...
Plone form fieldset ...
Jun 20, 2008
If you need to create a set of tabbed panes in a site, you can use the existing stuff in Plone to do so. You can either do so in a form ...
Async http with python
Jun 18, 2008
Say you have a bunch of URLs you want to query at once (aggregating RSS feeds, searching multiple external sites, etc.) normally you ...
Internationalised email ...
Jun 13, 2008
Here is how you create international characters in email headers. Useful if people have umlauts and accents in their name:
Auto add all new files ...
Jun 12, 2008
If you've added a bunch of changes to a local SVN copy, in a bunch of different places, then try running this little beauty:
Python Performance Tips
Apr 21, 2008
Just a quick read of various strategies for improving python performance. Might be a good read for all developers for things to bear in ...
Newline Character in ...
Mar 26, 2008
If you want to search for something and replace it with a newline (or some text containing a newline), to enter a newline character into ...
Plone Bookmarks
Mar 26, 2008
This is similar to the old favourites system in Plone, but using KSS to do it nicely on the client side:
Kent Connects Project ...
Mar 26, 2008
The Kent Connects 'Portal of Portals' project has been shortlisted in the final four in the category of Best Government to Government ...
Open remote files in ...
Mar 25, 2008
Emacs 'tramp' (remote file loading) is great, but what if you are in an ssh session and want to open a file without having to work out ...
How to remove addresses ...
Feb 20, 2008
I managed to mis-type a colleague's email address when sending him an email and Mac Mail them memorised it and tried to use it whenever ...
Arriving San Francisco
Feb 07, 2008
Well, a pretty good flight to the Plone Planning Summit. A long, but so far good journey. The taxi picked me up at 4:30am, and at 10pm ...
How to share a URL ...
Feb 04, 2008
To give me the ability to distract colleagues all as often as possible, whilst taking as little time out of my own day, I have an 'email ...
Disable Emacs 22 splash ...
Feb 01, 2008
If you don't want to be nagged by the new Emacs 22 splash screen anymore then simply stick this line in your .emacs file:
Netsight Sponsors Plone ...
Jan 23, 2008
Well, it had to happen - this year we are just too busy to attend the Plone SnowSprint; instead we are showing our ...
Selecting random images ...
Jan 11, 2008
How to easily create a viewlet that displays a random image selected from the skin:
Netsight participate in ...
Jan 07, 2008
Matt Hamilton, Technical Director of Netsight, will be attending the Plone Strategic Planning Summit 2008 at the ...
Setting the timezone in ...
Jan 02, 2008
We have a Zope instance running on a central corporate server that needs to have the local timezone of another country (in this case the ...
