Blog posts

Performing asynchronous tasks with Plone using message queues.

Andreas Jung talks about best practises.

Matt Hamilton, president of the Plone Foundation Board and Eric Steele, release manager, talk about the state of Plone.

The first technical talk of the 10th Plone conference is by Jan Jongboom, who works for Cloud9.

In the last year several people I know or follow have switched to a static weblog. I was in the middle of a redesign myself and thought it was a great opportunity to investigate the concept. The result: I replaced Django with Acrylamid for this site.

Several Pythonistas switched to a static blog this year. If you are also looking into static blog engines, give Acrylamid a go.

As of today I am using Disqus for comments on this site. This meant that I had to migrate the old comments (which used django.contrib.comments) to Disqus. Here’s a short description of how I did this.

While working on a client project, I created an (Archetypes based) content type with a text field. After adding a custom view as the default view, I got an AttributeError when I tried to add a new object.

Last year I participated in a deployment knowledge sharing session and I started implementing changes at my company pretty soon after. The result is that we are using Puppet for some parts of our server configuration. We also added Munin to our monitoring toolset (and I used Puppet to deploy Munin and manage its configuration). But an important piece that was still missing in our setup was an overview of which packages we use in the buildouts of our clients and more specifically which version each client uses.

For years web development was quite predictable. The resolution of the average screen slowly but steadily increased, bandwidth became less of an issue and everything was good. Then smartphones became mainstream. Suddenly we have to make sure our websites are also accessible on small screens. And bandwidth may also be limited to a few kilobytes per second. In other words: new challenges. But how are we responding to them?