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Unicode stuff and lxml

This is just a little tip for others, who if like myself, often battle with Unicode issues in python and need a little help.

Setting a default view of a ...

This is mainly a note for others looking to do the same. I'm sure this is documented somewhere, but I thought I'd put it here (mainly for my own ...

Auto add all new files to SVN

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:

Configuring buildout to ...

Yesterday morning I came in to work to find that my (previously fine) plone 3 buildout kept failing to rebuild. After much debugging and googling, I ...

Moving an object to the top ...

As whizzy as Plone 3's AJAX drag-and-drop folder re-ordering is, it's fairly unusable when you have a large number of items and need to move an item ...

Opening PDFs in a new window

A request we often get from customers is to make all links to PDF files in their Plone site open in a new window. This prevents the confusing ...

Custom Image Content Types ...

I always forget how to do things like this as I do not have to do them very often so I thought I would blog about it.

Folder Contents Appending ...

In a standard (Plone 3.1) site, when you go to folder contents, any Images and Files that are included in the listing automatically have ...

DateTime in Plone 3

Back in the days of Plone 2.x, page templates used to be able to just access Zope's DateTime module like this:

Python, PIL and libjpeg on ...

Here's what to do:

OS X British PC keyboard ...

If you are using a British PC keyboard with your Mac you will have undoubtedly found the key layout incorrect, as Macs use an American layout for ...

Grep with colour

Never knew this before:

Plone 3: Showing 'default ...

The simplest way I've found so far, which is not as simple as it should be, is as follows:

Dealing with svn conflicts: ...

If you get a conflict on an svn update, manually edit your file to sort out the conflict and then run:

Re-using your SSH sessions ...

Rather than initialising new ssh connections each time you want a new terminal window to a server, you can set up a ControlMaster session, which ...

Selecting random images from ...

How to easily create a viewlet that displays a random image selected from the skin:

Disable Emacs 22 splash screen

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:

How to share a URL quickly

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 this page' ...