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What’s happening in and around WebLion, plus what we think about web-related subjects. Products in the pipeline, upcoming deadlines and more.

Posted Oct 13, 2009

Portlets gone wild with ContentWellPortlets 2.0.1

This new release adds the ability to add portlets to the footer area. It also has 6 portlet managers per area. This means 20 total portlet managers including the 2 on the sides that ship with plone.

Posted Sep 17, 2009

Plone 4 – An interview with Zope News

Jan Ulrich Hasecke interviews me for Zope News.

Posted Aug 31, 2009

Web Services API for Plone Alpha 3 Release

Details the release of the wsapi4plone.core package and the plans for future releases. The final report of the AtomPub for Plone Google Summer of Code project.

Posted Aug 28, 2009

Content editing and creation in Plone is faster with archetypes.schematuning

Some bench marks of content editing and creation in Plone with and without archetypes.schematuning installed.

Posted Jun 16, 2009

Calendar sprint wrap-up

Our sprint yielded 2 lovely UI improvements for Plone4Artists Calendar.

Posted Jun 16, 2009

Namespace packages: replies to replies

Clarifications, your comments addressed, and why I still think we should lay off the namespace packages

Posted Jun 08, 2009

Stop abusing namespace packages

Plone has been in a nosedive toward unchecked complexity lately. Here's one easy, high-yield problem we can solve.

Posted May 17, 2009

Registration deadline approaching fast for Plone Symposium East and associated training

Register by May 18. Training starts May 26. Symposium starts May 28.

Posted May 13, 2009

Plone Symposium East registration deadline extended

Your last chance to register for talks and training just got last-chancier.

Posted May 08, 2009

3 days left to register for Symposium East

A few big dates coming up at Penn State

Posted May 08, 2009

Repoze.BFG Tutorial

Are you a Python web developer who thinks there might be some great stuff hidden away in Zope but you consider it inaccessible to you because you feel that Zope imposes too many foreign concepts for your tastes? Are you a more-or-less happy Zope developer that has the nagging feeling that much of Zope is unnecessary "baggage" on your current project? Maybe you're a Plone developer who feels that Plone is unsuitable for one of your current projects because it's too complicated? WebLion is hosting this training on May 27, 2009 prior to the Plone Symposium East 2009. Register by May 11.

Posted May 08, 2009

Managing Newsletters in Plone

I have found that Plone out of the box can handle most requirements for online newsletters...

Posted May 06, 2009

Empty Portlets: To See or Not To See

Displaying empty portlets.

Posted May 05, 2009

(Update: link to sprints corrected) Alexander Limi to Open Plone Symposium East 2009

Alexander Limi, co-founder of Plone will open the festivities at the Plone Symposium East 2009. Alex's presentation will focus on Plone 4.0 features and future directions.

Posted May 05, 2009

Training at Penn State: Agile Methods, Python Programming

WebLion is hosting the Plone Symposium East 2009 on May 28 and 29 and training on May 26-27. In addition to Zope and Plone training, there are workshops in agile methods and Python programming led by professional trainers, at very low cost and open to everyone. Register by May 11.

Posted May 04, 2009

Training at Plone Symposium East 2009: a week left to register

5 topics to choose from. Get your laptops ready!

Posted Apr 18, 2009

Just 3 Days Left to Get the Earlybird

Just 3 days left to get the earlybird discount for Plone Symposium East 2009

Posted Apr 16, 2009

Earlybird registration for Plone Symposium East closes soon

Register by April 20 to get a discount. Schedule now available.

Posted Apr 16, 2009

WebServerAuth 1.2 makes login_form do the right thing

No longer can the “Log in to add comments” button present a misleading login form.

Posted Apr 03, 2009

Sponsor Plone Symposium East 2009

Sponsorships help lower registration costs for training and presentations, and help support development sprints.

Posted Apr 03, 2009

Less than 3 weeks to get earlybird registration discount at Plone Symposium East

Register by April 20 and get $$ off. Wait until April 21 and pay full price.

Posted Mar 26, 2009

"No, seriously. Don't touch that."

Prevent editors from monkeying with the display menu.

Posted Mar 25, 2009

WebLion Hosting 1.1 Released

If you use WebLion's hosting service, your server has just been updated with the latest tweaks for security, performance, and convenience.

Posted Mar 24, 2009

Plone Sites on Flickr

The Plone Sites Flickr group invites you to post screen shots of Plone sites you have built and/or that you administer.

Posted Mar 23, 2009

Propose a talk for Plone Symposium East today

Speakers get $150 off registration at this annual gathering of Plonistas. Deadline for talk proposals is approaching fast.

Posted Mar 13, 2009

Stuff I'll never find time to blog about properly

WebServerAuth updated, svn.plone.org updated, and CacheableRedirects speeds up your 301s

Posted Mar 04, 2009

Subversion 1.5 on svn.plone.org

The server is now running 1.5.1. Merge-tracking will come in the next few days.

Posted Mar 03, 2009

Darling, say yes... please do!

No, no, not that kind of proposal! Send us your proposals for talks and training sessions at Plone Symposium East 2009. Speakers get a big discount on registration.

Posted Feb 24, 2009

Tweaks to #plone IRC logging

Crank up that signal-to-noise ratio! Status messages aren’t logged anymore, and [nolog] messages are subtler.

Posted Feb 23, 2009

Plone Symposium East 2009: registration open

Whether you are a website manager, consultant, core developer, or some other kind of Plonista, this event in late May 2009 is for you! Meet new contacts, brainstorm with like-minded people, learn from a wide variety of presentations, and share your experiences and expertise. Propose a talk or training session before March 23, and register by April 20 for an earlybird discount.

Posted Feb 20, 2009

ThemeSwitcher 0.8.7b1 Released

 

Posted Feb 17, 2009

An (opt-in) #plone logging experiment

Help the hapless searching newbies of the world by opting to having your questions and answers on the #plone IRC channel logged for future reference.

Posted Feb 16, 2009

Minor releases: Redirection Tool and Subversion Location

Fixed display problems in both these wares.

Posted Feb 16, 2009

bigreplace: Regex find-and-replace for files bigger than RAM

grep and sed choke on enormous files. This doesn’t as much.

Posted Feb 10, 2009

Forcing viewlets to order properly.

From the Department of Putting-this-out-there-so-someone-doesn't-have-to-spend-an-hour-fighting-with-the-same-problem.

Posted Feb 06, 2009

Travel Report: 2009 Baarn UI Sprint

Checking in after Baarn.

Posted Jan 16, 2009

Weekly wiki #4—Theming

Create A Plone Three Theme Product, Plone Three Where Is What, and Create Your Own Custom Navigation Portlet

Posted Jan 14, 2009

GloWorm 1.0 screencast

An overview of GloWorm in screencast form.

Posted Jan 13, 2009

Green IT at Educause Regional in Philadelphia

Green IT is getting a lot of attention these days. A recent session at the 2009 Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Philadelphia presented an engaging panel that discussed this subject with four presenters discussing efforts on what their organizations are doing to contribute to being Green within their IT organizations.

Posted Jan 12, 2009

Viewlets: barriers beyond borders

The Gloworm product makes it much easier for those new to Plone to identify and customize viewlets. But for Plone newbies, many barriers remain to understanding what viewlets are, why they are so useful, and how to manipulate them. Here are some of the pain points we've encountered.

Posted Jan 12, 2009

AnonymousCommenting now available

A quick little product to set up anonymous commenting on your site.

Posted Jan 12, 2009

WebServerAuth 1.1.1 released

1.1.1 fixes a spurious but harmless logged error.

Posted Jan 09, 2009

WebLion Reps Discuss Assessment Management System

WebLion discusses Assessment Management System at 2009 Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Philadelphia.

Posted Jan 07, 2009

GloWorm 1.0 Released!

The Worm has finally turned (1.0, that is...)

Posted Jan 05, 2009

OHR Uses WebLion CMS

Office of Human Resources (OHR) have adopted WebLion as primary CMS for redesign efforts.

Posted Dec 26, 2008

Agricultural Sciences joins growing WebLion partner list

College of Agricultural Sciences have joined the WebLion partnership and have ambitious goals to reinvent the Web experience down on the farm and in the college

Posted Dec 22, 2008

Valor and icy drinks at the Faculty/Staff Directory sprint

FSD 3.0 will harness viewlets and other Zope 3 technologies.

Posted Dec 22, 2008

New members added to WebLion team

Kevin Kalupson and Michael Miller join WebLion Development Group.

Posted Dec 19, 2008

Weekly wiki #3—System administration

Proxy Apache to Zope, Secure Zope, and Delegate Authentication

Posted Dec 19, 2008

WebLion members to hold key roles in Plone 4 development

WebLion team members to hold key positions for Plone 4.0 release development. WebLion members Eric Steele and Erik Rose will play important roles in the next major version of Plone.

Posted Dec 17, 2008

Easier theming with Content Well Portlets

The ContentWellPortlets product lets you put portlets into the main section of your page, above and/or below your content. This provides a handy way of creating distinctive page layouts without having to write new page templates.

Posted Dec 15, 2008

Find your invisible cursor

A quick solution for the missing terminal input caused by control-c'ing while in a pdb prompt.

Posted Dec 12, 2008

Weekly wiki #2—Beginning Plone development

Core Software for Development, Subversion Basics, and Unit Tests

Posted Dec 05, 2008

Theme switching by URL, folder, page, etc.

When we want to use two or more themes in the same Plone 3.1 site, we need some way of switching between the themes. Mobilize currently uses theme switching by URL. This approach can be modified to offer different themes in different folders (subskinning, anyone?).

Posted Dec 05, 2008

To war!

Fear not, fair FacultyStaffDirectory extender authors—your deliverance from the tyrant templates is at hand.

Posted Dec 05, 2008

Weekly wiki #1

Temporary Storage in ZEO, Cheat Sheets, and Buildout

Posted Dec 03, 2008

WebServerAuth 1.1 saves money on SSL certs

Now you can specify where the login link and challenge handler take you, meaning you don’t need a separate SSL cert for each domain.

Posted Nov 21, 2008

Kill 10.5’s “Are you sure you want to open it?” dead

Turn off those obnoxious “This app was downloaded from the internet” warnings OS X 10.5 throws up.

Posted Nov 20, 2008

GloWorm 1.0b1 now available

The first version of GloWorm that I'd be willing to use on one of my own sites is now ready for download.

Posted Nov 18, 2008

Trac plugin makes checkouts easier

Subversion Location plugin adds a handy repository link from Browse Source tab.

Posted Oct 24, 2008

International FacultyStaffDirectory team gels at Plone Conference

Developers from around the world met for the first time to eat pizza, make cross-cultural gaffes, and kick 2.1 out the door.

Posted Oct 20, 2008

4 out of 5 developers agree: XML configuration is teh fail

XML is not like violence: if it isn’t working, the answer is not to use more.

Posted Oct 08, 2008

Is opportunity hidden in crisis?

Markets are stirring up trouble everywhere. In this chaotic environment, there may be the seeds of opportunity.

Posted Sep 19, 2008

GloWorm 0.1 alpha 6 and upcoming sprint

A new ui-focused release of GloWorm is available for your tinkering pleasure.

Posted Sep 10, 2008

WebServerAuth aims to replace apachepas and AutoMemberMaker

The first beta release is free of known bugs and ready for abuse. Please squash my dreams!

Posted Sep 04, 2008

Work at WebLion

Know Python, Zope, or Plone? Join us for interesting work and good company!

Posted Aug 26, 2008

Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences—our newest WebLion partner!

Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has now joined the WebLion partnership as our latest edition.

Posted Aug 22, 2008

OPP joins WebLion partnership

Office of Physical Plant has joined the WebLion partnership.

Posted Aug 20, 2008

Goodbye audiences, hello interlocutors

For years we have used the term "audience" as shorthand for "those people (a) at whom our websites are aimed, and/or (b) who are actually visiting the sites". But this term isn't really appropriate in today's world of interactive media: we need a better one.

Posted Jul 30, 2008

Explore Debian dependencies with debtree

debtree is a nifty little hack that builds package dependency diagrams.

Posted Jul 24, 2008

Subversion 1.5 has landed

WebLion’s Subversion server now runs 1.5.0. Happy merging!

Posted Jul 21, 2008

FreakyWiki: a simple wiki banged out in Grok

A restructured text wiki written in about a day by two guys who never used Grok (or even pure Zope 3) before

Posted Jul 11, 2008

GloWorm 0.1-alpha 5

An updated screencast showing the current state of GloWorm. Now with viewlet moving!

Posted Jul 02, 2008

Plone does redirects now?!

Plone 3 notices when you move content and creates redirects automatically.

Posted Jun 26, 2008

CSSManager hits 2000 downloads!

CSSManager, developed by WebLion programmer Rob Porter and Ian Anderson of the University of North Carolina, has been extremely popular with the Plone community.

Posted Jun 17, 2008

Migrating your site to Plone—the screencast

Catherine Williams, Rose Pruyne, Jeanne Spicer, and Joe DeLuca describe their experiences with migrating Web sites to Plone.

Posted Jun 13, 2008

Poster from Penn State Web Conference

In case you missed it at the Penn State Web Conference, here’s a copy of WebLion’s poster.

Posted Jun 10, 2008

GloWorm fan art (alpha)

 

Posted Jun 09, 2008

An example proposal for adopting Plone

I am sharing the following example proposal for adopting Plone at the university department level. If you are striving to convince your organization to adopt Plone, feel free to make use of any part of this material for your own justification.

Posted Jun 07, 2008

WebLion website revamped

New architecture, new content and new visual styling. We've also migrated platform to Plone 3.

Posted Jun 05, 2008

What's next for Plone in Education?

For discussions at the Plone Symposium in New Orleans, it seems a good time to review the outcomes of strategic planning the education community did at Ploneability and Plone Symposium East

Posted Jun 05, 2008

Get sociable at the Penn State web conference

If you didn't make the deadline for conference proposals at this year's Penn State Web Conference 2008, it's not too late to present your ideas and thoughts.

Posted Jun 04, 2008

Sessions are evil

My comprehensive, cathartic condemnation of that carbuncle on the countenance of the stateless web

Posted May 23, 2008

GloWorm 0.1-alpha1 now available

The first semi-release of GloWorm is now available in alpha form.

Posted May 14, 2008

New certificate on weblion.psu.edu

We got a new HTTPS certificate. If connecting to our server for a Subversion commit, you may be prompted to accept the new certificate.

Posted May 13, 2008

vmstat and tail make a great sandwich

To diagnose a slow web server, interleave vmstat and tail.

Posted May 09, 2008

A sneak peek at GloWorm

Or "How I wanted to stop worrying and ignore the ZMI."

Posted Jan 24, 2008

Composition program to use WebLion to improve communications

It's official: the Composition Program in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts has now joined the WebLion Partnership.

Posted Jan 17, 2008

Computer Science and Engineering joins WebLion

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in the College of Engineering, is the latest Penn State group to join the WebLion Partnership.

Posted Dec 13, 2007

Huck Institutes develops app for evaluating graduate applications

Huck Institutes has developed a 'back office" application for evaluating potential applicants for graduate study.

Posted Nov 18, 2007

Plone for Education: "Let's get organized!"

A group of colleges and universities discuss how Plone in Education needs to get organized.

Posted Nov 18, 2007

WebLion and Ploneability Higher Ed

WebLion team presents at Ploneability Higher Ed Conference: "The WebLion Project: Bringing Open Source to Higher Education Institutions".

Posted Oct 31, 2007

WebLion at EDUCAUSE: new collaborations

The WebLion team made new connections and had good feedback while attending the 2007 EDUCAUSE annual conference.

Posted Oct 29, 2007

Meteorology joins WebLion partnership

Penn State's Department of Meteorology in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has officially joined the WebLion partnership.

Posted Oct 11, 2007

WebLion team welcomes College of Communications

Penn State's College of Communications has formally joined the WebLion Partnership.

Posted Aug 22, 2007

WebLion/Plone security: we're solid

In cooperation with the ITS Security Operations and Services and WebLion partner College of Information Sciences and Technology, a comprehensive scan of security vulnerabilities shows that when properly installed, WebLion/Plone/Zope is a secure Web platform.

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Posted Oct 13, 2009 Portlets gone wild with ContentWellPortlets 2.0.1 This new release adds the ability to add portlets to the footer area. It also has 6 portlet managers per area. This means 20 total portlet managers including the 2 on the sides that ship with plone.
Posted Sep 17, 2009 Plone 4 – An interview with Zope News Jan Ulrich Hasecke interviews me for Zope News.
Posted Aug 31, 2009 Web Services API for Plone Alpha 3 Release Details the release of the wsapi4plone.core package and the plans for future releases. The final report of the AtomPub for Plone Google Summer of Code project.
Posted Aug 28, 2009 Content editing and creation in Plone is faster with archetypes.schematuning Some bench marks of content editing and creation in Plone with and without archetypes.schematuning installed.
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