Updating a Traditional Plone Theme to Diazo for Plone 5
Updating your Plone theme to Diazo will allow it to be used beyond Plone 5...
Chrissy Wainwright |
June 17, 2014
Improving the Plone Setup Process
Updates to SixieSkel allow for quick and easy buildout creation.
Chrissy Wainwright |
June 4, 2014
Five reasons why waiting isn't the best upgrade strategy
We recommend upgrading to the latest stable version of Plone (emphasis on "stable"). Here's why:
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
March 5, 2014
Why Consider Consolidating Your Websites?
If you have multiple websites scattered across various CMSs, consider consolidating them to control them in one place to share across them and save time. Here's a few reasons you should consider consolidating your websites.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 11, 2014
Why Consider Integrating Your Websites?
If your organization has multiple websites, multiple teams, and/or multiple CMS technologies, you need to integrate those sites to easily manage and syndicate content across them.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 3, 2014
Top Reasons to Migrate to WebUnity
Looking to upgrade your existing Plone installation? Consider WebUnity, the complete multisite Plone package. Here are the top benefits of WebUnity over vanilla Plone...
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
February 3, 2014
Useful tips if you can't reach your site
Panic tends to get a hold of you when you realize you can't get to your site. Here is a list of steps to follow to determine the best course of action...
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
December 9, 2013
Content Syndication Comparison: PushHub vs. RSS
RSS is easy to turn on and interact with, yet it does come with limitations with regards to sophisticated content integration. Here are the major differences between RSS and PushHub...
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
December 3, 2013
Online content strategies key at Healthcare Internet Conference
As it tends to be at internet-oriented business conferences, the focus was definitely on online content strategies and improving the patient experience. Many speakers emphasized the importance of making your website a media rich experience (doctors' bios without pictures are ignored by patients) with fresh content created on a regular basis, almost in a journalistic way...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
November 8, 2013
Why We Believe in Giving Back to Open Source
We have always loved using open source and we believe in giving back to open source as much as we benefit from it. We put together a short video about why we and others believe in giving back and the benefits of helping the open source community:
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
September 12, 2013
Colander Fixes at the Pyramid Development Sprint 2013
I attended the Pyramid Summer Sprint in Germany and made several improvements to Colander.
Clayton Parker |
August 22, 2013
Deform Fixes at the Pyramid Development Sprint 2013
I attended the Pyramid Development Sprint this summer and worked on several improvements for Deform...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
August 21, 2013
Shell Script 101 Tech Talk Notes and Video
Shell Script Tech Talk with Clayton Parker from Six Feet Up.
Clayton Parker |
August 8, 2013
A Festival and a Plone Sprint
Go to an awesome outdoor festival, or go to a Plone Sprint? If you come to the Bastille Day Plone Sprint July 13-17th you can do both! Right now is a critical time in Plone development with Plone 5 just around the corner.
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
June 26, 2013
Where is Plone heading to? Reading thru the tea leaves
A good portion of the Sixie crew is now back from the superbly organized Plone Symposium Midwest (PSM). So, what do we take back from PSM this year? Where is Plone heading? What impact will Plone 5 have?
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
June 24, 2013
The Mira App: Why HTML5 Rocks
I got a chance to directly contribute code to the app and I must say I had a blast. I actually had so much fun I found myself waking up at 3am to keep improving it...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
April 19, 2013
Four Plone 4.3 Benefits You Should Know About
Being both volunteers on the Plone Foundation and the largest Plone provider in the U.S., we get really excited when a new version of Plone is released to the public...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
April 17, 2013
4 Python Web Frameworks Compared
Six Feet Up organized IndyPy's Python Web Shootout, where 4 companies showed off 4 Python frameworks through the demo of a ToDo app developed in Bottle, Django, Flask and Pyramid.
Clayton Parker |
March 12, 2013
Intro to the Python Framework Pyramid
Here are some resources on why Pyramid is an ideal Python based web framework, and how to get started using it.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 26, 2013
Why We Choose Python
We're happy to see that Python is now one of the fastest-growing programing languages, even rivaling PHP to become the most popular interpreted language. Today I explore the reasons why we believe Python is the language of choice for serious developers.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 18, 2013
