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Fully-versioned, distributed object persistence 24 Jul 2012 | 08:10 pm
At EuroPython 2012 (held earlier this month in Florence, Italy), I gave a talk on "fully-versioned, distributed object persistence". I'd like to introduce the project also to readers of this blog, an...
Python, long words and the soft hyphen 23 Sep 2011 | 01:33 am
The HTML specification (any of them) does not require or allow a user agent to manage text hyphenation. Instead, it must rely on hints provided by the document: The soft hyphen tells the user agent w...
"Less.app" on linux 22 Sep 2011 | 09:05 pm
From the homepage: LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (IE 6+, Webkit, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js...
Speed up your Plone 4 site with Chameleon 14 Jul 2011 | 07:16 pm
The fast template engine that runs on just about any Python platform version 2.5 and up now runs on Plone 4! It's already running live in production on Enfold's Ploud infrastructure where they see a ...
Writing a single-source library for Python 2 and 3 2 Mar 2011 | 11:34 pm
The recently released Chameleon template compiler was written as a single source for all Python platforms > 2.5, including Python 3.x (and PyPy). I'd like to share my experience in taking this approa...
Chameleon on Python 2, 3 and PyPy 23 Feb 2011 | 01:53 am
This is to announce that a new installment of the Chameleon template compiler is available. A single codebase targets an all-new set of platforms: 2.5+, 3.1+ and PyPy! Currently it includes an engine ...
HTTP response proxy with Zope 2 28 Jan 2011 | 01:20 am
You sometimes want to proxy an HTTP object through your site. If response is your urllib2 response object, then for Zope 2 to actually accept it as a proper downstream response, you need to apply thi...
Getting registry settings in Plone to display in fieldsets 13 Dec 2010 | 05:38 am
Although still a little rough around the edges with regards to supporting less trivial fields such as rich text, Plone's new settings registry framework works really well. It basically lets you point ...
Rich text on a property sheet 2 Dec 2010 | 10:48 pm
It's the Zope CMF property-sheet-counterpart to "snakes on a plane". Here's how to do it: https://gist.github.com/725048 Why would anyone go through all that? I had a brief e-mail chat with Martin ...
Off-topic: On xenophobia or why we're looking for an apartment in Malmö 22 Nov 2010 | 06:44 am
There's a tide of repressive immigration policies passing through Europe, in particular in Denmark. Very long story cut short, it's difficult and (very) expensive to get to live with your spouse who i...
