I'm doing some theming work on my team's first Plone-based site. It's the first real (i.e., useful, concrete, for-my-job) Plone work I've done. For the first time, just now, I knew how to find a viewlet's linkages and guts. Without thinking, I went looking for the configure.zcml and common.py files... I'm starting to know what … Continue reading The beginning of Plone muscle memory
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while listening_to(Plone): code(Plone)
Most of the technical people in my division (Fisher Interactive) use Apple Macs. They're all MacBook Pros, except for a Mac Pro used by Andrew. I sometimes listen to music via iTunes when I work. I've rediscovered classical music, so my library has some of that (e.g., a London Symphony performance of Holst's The Planets, … Continue reading while listening_to(Plone): code(Plone)
QA Lead & Release Manager job at Fisher Communications
My team has an opening for a QA Lead & Release Manager, for our Plone project. Here's an excerpt from the full job description: Location: Seattle, WA Reports to: Director, Web Development Fisher Interactive Network is a new division within Fisher Communications, and we need your help in changing the face of web news and … Continue reading QA Lead & Release Manager job at Fisher Communications
New Year’s Resolutions
In 2009, I want to... Become more familiar with Plone and Zope. Heretofore, I've read, experimented, attended a Bootcamp, and attended a conference. I now want to become nuts-and-bolts familiar with them, so that I intuitively understand their internals. (Well, OK, so that I start to intuitively understand their internals.) This will come from touching many … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions
The plural of CMS
I did a little searching and found some relevant posts on this question. The plural of CMS is CMSs. The possessive plural is CMSs'. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
World Plone Day, and a better start for a Plone introductory talk
The Seattle Plone Gathering's World Plone Day event seemed to be successful. They had about 40 people, which, from what I could see, was a capacity crowd. I brought five people from my company, and also forwarded the invitation to Joe, who attended and gave it a +1. Afterward, he, Jesse Snyder, and I had … Continue reading World Plone Day, and a better start for a Plone introductory talk
Where next for Plone Development?
Ian Bicking just wrote a Cracker Jack post on the direction he'd prefer for Plone's development. It and its comment thread are great reading. Money quotes: One of the ongoing concerns in the Plone community has been the difficulty of attracting and maintaining developer interest in the community, and generally making Plone easier to work … Continue reading Where next for Plone Development?
World Plone Day in Seattle
November 7 is World Plone Day. In Seattle, the Seattle Plone Gathering will host a Seattle WPD event at ONE/Northwest. There will be presentations/talks about Plone, smart people mixing it up, free Google swag, food, drink, and general intellectual debauchery. The Seattle WPD page has the details, and a link for RSVPing. If you want to learn … Continue reading World Plone Day in Seattle
Getting help on #plone
One of Plone's advertised support venues is the #plone IRC channel. I've never been very comfortable with IRC. I've always felt odd jumping into the middle of a bunch of conversation threads. IRCing at OSCON was fun, but that was a snark-fest. But, yesterday I took the plunge. I asked a question, and Veda Williams … Continue reading Getting help on #plone
Plone Conference 2008 reflections
My reflections on my first Plone conference... Things that were great The conference, in whole. The organizers did a great job, and we should all contribute to pay off their mortgages. I'm sometimes a bit jaundiced about the overused word, "community," but the Plone/Zope community is aces. Things that weren't great The Ronald Reagan Building … Continue reading Plone Conference 2008 reflections
Seek Nuance 