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Graham Perrin

Fixing Kupu in deliverance configuration - Finn Arild Music - 0 views

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2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 09 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Fixing Kupu in deliverance configuration
  • Deliverance is a brilliantly smart concept
  • separating design from logic
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • combining several types of backend web applications into a frontend
  • Deliverance configuration
  • Varnish config
  • this page which shed some light
  • problems in making it play nicely
  • Kupu depended on a pristine /emptypage
  • a match instead of a proxy
Graham Perrin

who wants to be release manager for Deliverance? - 0 views

www.coactivate.org/...forum_view

2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 09 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • Deliverance Discussion
  • who wants to be release manager for Deliverance?
  • Nov 29, 2009
  • ...33 more annotations...
  • The situation right now is dismal
  • private fork of the code if they want to make any modifications
  • getting a stable, maintained release of this 0.3 incarnation out the door
  • right now the bottleneck is on the maintenance side
  • it would be really nice to see deliverance moving to some dcvs
  • Deliverance tries to solve a problem that very few people have: styling an existing site without having to touch it
  • Plone where you would need hundreds of hours of work of skilled people to do a full styling
  • if you use Deliverance you still need to theme your Plone site
  • a lot of interest in Deliverance
  • XDV, since that is easier to deploy in non-Python environments
  • Deliverance + a proxy is obviously possible
  • legacy systems
  • "shrink-wrapped" solutions that they can't style
  • All my Plone projects these days use Deliverance or XDV
  • turn off most Plone stylesheets
  • custom stylesheet to augment the designer's styles
  • include the Plone authoring stylesheets more or less intact
  • new to Plone
  • teaching theming
  • new to Plone theming
  • comprehension and productivity
  • With Deliverance/XDV, I can get people who understand HTML + CSS to be productive with Plone
  • a *huge* win
  • hard to set it all up
  • soluble
  • stable 0.3 release out is of utmost importance
  • revisit the option of moving it to a different repository later
  • it only takes a very little bit of stop energy to get someone to go away
  • I hereby bestow upon Ethan the title of Maintainer
  • release now, and figure out code location etc later
  • DVCS's genuinely useful for including people in a development process
  • get git working with the major IDEs
  • I'd be looking at fewer man pages with hg than with git
Graham Perrin

Plone and its competition: choosing a CMS - Martin Aspeli - 0 views

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2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software) unread

shared by Graham Perrin on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Plone and its competition: choosing a CMS
  • Martin Aspeli
  • Jul 06, 2009
  • ...79 more annotations...
  • evaluate a whole slew
  • eye-opening
  • quite Plone-oriented
  • vendors' marketing materials decidedly do not help
  • if you're paying someone by the day to come up with a recommendation
  • Vendor Subway Map
  • features they have in their product arsenal
  • Plone sits on the intersection of the "Web content management", "Social software & collaboration" and "Enterprise portal" lines
  • cost (both licensing and likely implementation costs), fit with your existing IT architecture, and usability/end-user experience become a lot more important
  • focus on getting a list of requirements for your end solution
  • Vendor demos have a tendency to gloss over the warts
  • The word "CMS" - Content Management System - is quite overloaded
  • Plone is really a Web CMS
  • vendors sometimes focus mainly on content production
  • Other vendors include a dedicated presentation server
  • Some systems, like Plone, accommodate both in a single server
  • away from tight integration
  • towards federation of services on heterogeneous platforms
  • The "federated" view of IT is more realistic as an option these days
  • better support for standards
  • more use of higher level "glue"
  • Deliverance
  • plone.org, for example, "deliverates" Plone and Trac
  • federated architecture that presents a unified user experience
  • In the Java world, there are more formal standards (notably JSR168 and it's successor JSR186)
  • in theory
  • built once and deployed onto different portal containers
  • An intranet or public website should largely present
  • a stable, well-thought-out information architecture
  • a richer, more bespoke, less application-like user experience
  • a shift away from this one-platform-to-rule-them-all mentality
  • some of the "platform" arguments are red herrings
  • External Editor
  • training your in-house staff
  • pick a solution that is supportable
  • specialist vendor
  • Most modern systems are so complex that you can't just expect your IT staff to be able to support them without at last some investment in training
  • Bake vs. fry
  • Assets vs. content
  • In Plone, there is a structured hierarchy
  • content tree
  • mirrors how files are managed on the desktop
  • Folders and taxonomy
  • Plone is comparatively weak
  • Pages and fragments
  • Managing code and content
  • Zope and Plone communities have done a lot of work to move development out onto the filesystem
  • The contenders Below is a list of systems I think are worth looking at and learning from.
  • Usability is king
  • Even Open Text/RedDot, which says in every "datasheet" that Gartner calls its usability "legendary", is confusing to use at times, and many of the other systems - especially the older ones - are downright shocking
  • just to install the system and click
  • most enlightening evaluation
  • If I can't figure it out easily, it's not good enough
  • What Plone can learn All in all, this evaluation exercise has confirmed my belief that Plone can hold its head high in the web content management world.
  • support for the "bake" model
  • file representation of all content
  • upload content easily
  • browse the site via WebDav
  • IT support staff need to be able to feed and water the servers your CMS runs on
  • Morello has an interesting take
  • integration with Microsoft Office and the desktop
  • dragged from the desktop and dropped into the CMS
  • Open Text/RedDot has a nice model
  • RESTful web services
  • integration with other systems much easier
  • group workspaces
  • already decent add-on products
  • dashboard
  • first thing users see
  • content notification
  • "star" content they care about
  • content re-use
  • support for taxonomy
  • multi-site support
  • through-the-web content types and templates
  • page composition
  • Deco system
  • Conclusion
  • Plone UserVoice forum
Graham Perrin

New über-buildout with Repoze and Deliverance - Martin Aspeli - 0 views

www.martinaspeli.net/...ut-with-repoze-and-deliverance

2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Martin Aspeli
  • Aug 09, 2009
  • all-in-one
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • devleopment-and-production
  • using Repoze, WSGI and Deliverance
  • the goodness of: ZEO server4 ZEO clients running PasterSoftware load balancing using haproxyA Varnish cachenginx serving static content
  • based on the good-py
  • don't extend any remote services in the uber-buildouts
  • don't want to be dependent on a live internet connection for production deployment
  • über-buildout with Repoze and Deliverance
Graham Perrin

Jon Stahl's Journal » Blog Archive » Plone 4: three times faster than Drupal,... - 0 views

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2010 2010-01 2010-01-25 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Plone 4 is faster out of the box than some of the most common PHP platforms
  • three times faster than Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress
  • Plone 4
  • ...26 more annotations...
  • Jan 19th, 2010
  • Jon Stahl
  • Plone 4 is about to
  • enter beta testing prior to a final release
  • performance
  • out of the box
  • over three times faster
  • what does all this mean?  Well, honestly, not much
  • realistic sample content
  • very, very proud of Plone’s raw speed
  • suspect MAMP not to be very efficient
  • For read-only operations, once the objects have made it into ZODB’s object cache no database queries need be made
  • the difference is down to Plone’s use of the ZODB
  • Contrast this to the PHP/MySQL systems which must perform several selects in order to render the page
  • to fetch new objects it’s slower
  • ZODB fetches are serial
  • Archetypes persistent object design is far from optimal (page data is split over several persistent objects, slowing down load time)
  • addressed as part of Dexterity
  • fundamental architectural difference
  • CMSes that use the RDBMS and some kind of ORM or manual SQL (like Drupal, Joomla)
  • those that use an OODBMS such as Plone
  • ‘out of the box’ speed, since that is something a lot of people historically have not liked about Plone
  • less tuning needed to start with
  • even when caching is not applicable we still get the performance boost
  • our installer sets up ZEO with clients for you, so this is “out-of-the-box”
  • counter the (incorrect) perception out there that “Plone is slow”
Graham Perrin

Simplify Plone's Editing Experience · Alexander Limi - 0 views

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2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • April 14th, 2008
  • Simplify Plone’s Editing Experience
  • Simplifying Plone’s content authoring experience for end-users
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • Part 1
  • bringing sexy back
  • Movie showing the new approach
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 08 Jan 10
       
      A very pleasant reminder of the simplicity that was envisaged around twenty months ago.
  • wrong the first time around
  • we should attack the root
Graham Perrin

Using Hudson CI for Plone projects - Martin Aspeli - 0 views

www.martinaspeli.net/...g-hudson-ci-for-plone-projects

2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Nov 07, 2009
  • Martin Aspeli
  • Hudson Continuous Integration
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • provides a test runner that can output the types of XML test reports that Hudson expects
  • collective.xmltestreport
  • pretty easy to set it all up
  • Using Hudson CI for Plone projects
Graham Perrin

Table: Plone themes | CSS, viewlets, templates - 0 views

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2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software)

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Graham Perrin

No, really, you can (just) use Buildout to install Plone. « Alex Clark's Plon... - 0 views

blog.aclark.net/?p=31

2010 2010-01 2010-01-08 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Buildout to install Plone
  • Alex Clark
  • a follow up to my Getting Excited about Plone as Eggs post
  • ...13 more annotations...
  • “mostly trivial” to write a buildout.cfg to install Plone
  • a working Plone, but not necessarily a repeatable buildout
  • If you are completely new to buildout
  • install buildout first
  • Distribute
  • curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
  • python distribute_setup.py
  • easy_install zc.buildout
  • mkdir plone
  • cd plone
  • buildout init
  • bin/instance console
  • January 7, 2010
Graham Perrin

Is Plone too hard? - Martin Aspeli - 0 views

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2010 2010-01 2010-01-06 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 06 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Is Plone too hard?
  • Feb 03, 2008
  • Themes are not themes, they are customisation
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • ZMI is not alway ideal
  • but it's powerful and quick as hell
  • The usual answer here is to use grep
  • can't find anything
  • Plone's performance is fine if you know how to set it up. We should make that easier by giving CacheFu an overhaul
  • Restarts suck. Slow restarts suck more
  • Each of these areas (and other ones) will need a "champion"
  • imagine we had an all-powerful introspection tool
Graham Perrin

Relating content automatically in Plone - Vox - 0 views

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2010 2010-01 2010-01-10 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • list of related content automatically
  • Relating content automatically in Plone
  • automatically
  • ...24 more annotations...
  • 02-ene-08
  • a proof-of-concept product called Haystack
  • Benjamin Saller
  • haystack_tool included a couple of methods
  • summarize text
  • list of "topics" extracted from the content
  • portlets to demonstrate its functionality
  • low quality of the "topics"
  • didn't understood the meaning of words
  • linguistic mapping and automated conceptual mapping, providing high-quality relationships with little or no human effort
  • Term Extraction
  • python implementation
  • Implementing this in Plone
  • or use Content Rules
  • trigger a script in a workflow transition
  • fill the Subject field
  • additional field to store
  • better  quality
  • list of pending stuff to test (with a little help of Matt Bowen, of course)
  • Great idea
  • python text summariser which doesn't require Yahoo's web service
  • http://pypi.python.org/pypi/topia.termextract
  • several ways to relate content, both based on keywords and based on explicit relationships, in stock Plone
  • This article is about automatic text summaries based on linguistic analysis
Graham Perrin

Zope 3 wiki FAQ - General - Known Good Set (KGS) - 0 views

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Zope KGS Known Good Set Python Package Index

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Graham Perrin

#7662 (Trails trails trails...) - Plone - Trac - 0 views

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trail

shared by Graham Perrin on 30 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Trails have been deprecated. See #7836.
Graham Perrin

Installing Plone v3.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 - GSE&IS Plone Development Site - 0 views

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Graham Perrin

python-ldap as egg with buildout - BlueDynamics Alliance - 0 views

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LDAP egg buildout python-ldap

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Israel Saeta Pérez

Sapere aude! · Creating a new content-type with Archetypes in Plone 3 - check... - 0 views

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plone documentation

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  • Israel Saeta Pérez on 15 Feb 09
     
    Creating content-types checklist.
Graham Perrin

Ask the Expert: Plone | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network - 0 views

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Plone

shared by Graham Perrin on 14 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Graham Perrin on 14 Dec 08
     
    Includes a transcript of a December 2006 chat with Andrew Burkhalter of ONE/Northwest and Joel Burton, founder of PloneBootcamps.com.
Graham Perrin

..: hannosch :..: News from Plone trunk - 0 views

blog.hannosch.eu/...plone-trunk-november-2008.html

2008 2008-11 2010 2010-01 2010-01-18 Plone (software)

shared by Graham Perrin on 18 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • News from Plone trunk
  • November 2008
  • moved our entire stack towards eggs
Graham Perrin

Custom Query - Plone - Trac - 0 views

dev.plone.org/query

Plone 1274 1182

shared by Graham Perrin on 22 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • Graham Perrin on 22 Mar 09
     
    Trac is currently missing this link. http://dev.plone.org/plone.org/ticket/1182 refers
  • Graham Perrin on 22 Mar 09
     
    A new plone.org view of the custom query form
Graham Perrin

Improvement Proposals (PLIPs) for Plone 4 - 0 views

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PLIP Plone 4 PLIPs

shared by Graham Perrin on 23 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Israel Saeta Pérez on 23 Dec 08
     
    plips drafts
  • Graham Perrin on 23 Dec 08
     
    It's great to see Trac being used in this way!
  • Graham Perrin on 23 Dec 08
     
    I experimented with http://dev.plone.org/plone/query?milestone=3.2&type=PLIP http://dev.plone.org/plone/query?milestone=3.3&type=PLIP not expecting to find anything, and found nothing. I assume that the novel use of Trac is related to the work of the (new) Framework Team for Plone 4.
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