The twenty-eight Lurker laws
Stefan Holek gave a great presentation at the Plone Conference 2006 in Seattle about mistakes and things to avoid when programming with Zope & Plone. As a developer you should take your time
Andreas Jung
Plone and Python developer since the mid-90 • Electronic Publishing Guru • Singing • Piano & Organ • Human.
Compiling readline support for Python on MacOSX
Since ages it has been impossible to build Python from the sources with readline support out-of-the-box. The reason seems to be an outdated or broken version of libreadline that ships with MacOSX. To
When True isn't True enough
I found this brilliant tal:condition inside a Plone template today: <div class="row" tal:condition="python:test(content_type.startswith('text'), 1, 0)"> <h2 i18n:translate="heading_file_contents"
Making TextIndexNG3 compatible with Plone users
Some Plone users had a hard-time in the past with the configuration of TextIndexNG3. Since the out-of-the-box installation should be running on a bare Zope system, it has been impossible to ship TextIndexNG3
There is always hope...
A Plone 2.0b1 -> 2.5.1 migration adventure
Obtaining the backward references
It seems to be a common requirement to do not only obtain the list of related items (references to other objects) but also to obtain the list of back references. The following snippet