Plone vs. Drupal
Who doesn't know about Drupal, one of the "top 3" Open Source CMS? Every day, we hear about multi-million Drupal deployment for major corporations, associations, or administrations. How could we not try and take a look at Drupal to see how it compares to Plone and what we can learn from it?
Thomas Massmann |
November 17, 2010
KMWorld 2010 Day One Wrap Up
The conference kicked off with a dynamic introductory keynote by Tom Stewart. Tom gave a very insightful one slide strategy session and ...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
November 17, 2010
Tips for Writing a Solid Plone Theme
Some suggestions to help your Plone theme follow best practices
Chrissy Wainwright |
November 10, 2010
Word Splitting Filter in Solr
Solr has a fantastic set of options for processing text. One of them is the WordDelimiterFilterFactory that allows you to turn a single word into multiple words...
Clayton Parker |
November 9, 2010
KMS vs CMS: What Are The Differences?
What is the difference between a Content Management System (CMS), like Plone, and a Knowledge Management System (KMS), such as KARL or Quaive...
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
October 29, 2010
What To Say When Management Says "No" To Online Social Media
Most of us will agree with Robin Sharma, who writes in The Greatness Guide that "business is relationships". The trust factor is what explains why we choose to do business with someone rather than someone else. And how we build trust is by creating relationships...
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
October 27, 2010
How To Save 40% On Development Costs
Our CTO just went to a Hackers & Founders event, which is geared toward people interested in start-ups. He came back really energized from all the new ideas he heard, and the atmosphere vibrating of pre-bubble entrepreneurship vitality in the room...
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
October 22, 2010
Get your questions answered at the Plone Conference!
Six Feet Up will be presenting on six different topics at the upcoming Plone Conference. You can ask your questions now using Google Moderator...
Clayton Parker |
October 21, 2010
Bootstrapping Buildout Killing PYTHONPATH
Issues bootstrapping and running buildouts recently caused us a minor headache. The fix was simple, but not after a lot of mis-direction while investigating the issue.
Clayton Parker |
October 21, 2010
Has Zope's decision to use an OODB been right all along?
I was resistant at first also. When I first picked up Zope in 1998, the first thing I asked was if I could store all of my data in MySQL. I didn't know what I was missing yet, but I'm glad it only took me one project to realize the true strength of using a Object Oriented Database with an Object Oriented application server...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 14, 2010
Deploying Plone and Zine together with Deliverance using Repoze
Six Feet Up loves Plone, but using Plone as a blogging tool has never been a strong point. Blogging isn't something that we felt that Plone did well out of the box. Much like most Plone products, you have to add in various third party products or create your own products if you want to get some of the really nice features that many of the typical blogging platforms like WordPress offer today like pingbacks. We had tried quite a few of these ways of stuffing blogging into Plone and ran into various issues of dependencies or incompatibilities along the way so we decided to go for a solution that wasn't in Plone...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 14, 2010
Markdown to PDF in one command line
We have started responding to many documents now using plain text files since it is very easy to manage and to collaborate with other team members. Now, what if you want to send off a professional looking formatted structured document with a table of contents. You also want it to be in a common format so that others can annotate on it or send you feedback. PDF is perfect for this, but how do you get your very functional markdown to a very pretty PDF presentation?...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 14, 2010
Benefits of using Source Control Management
There are many great reasons to use a Source Control Management (SCM) system. If you are looking to get involved with an Open Source project or manage small and large projects of your own, you are going to need to know how to use a SCM...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 14, 2010
Tips for Starting a Plone Theme
Learning to theme a site in Plone? Here are some quick tips to help get you started with your CSS styling once you have installed your theme product...
Chrissy Wainwright |
October 14, 2010
How do I get started with Subversion
Getting started doesn't require that you know the myriad of options and commands that exist in Subversion. Let's say for example you wanted to participate in the periodic Plone Tune-Ups. You are going to want to check out the latest stable development environment to start hacking. According to the Tune-Up site you need to grab the Plone 3.3 plonenext buildout...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 14, 2010
When the Plone installer isn't enough
The Plone installer is possibly the easiest way to install plone. But when you're ready to take the next step, where do you turn?...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 14, 2010
Utilize Available JavaScript in Plone without Knowing JavaScript
There are a few automagical scripts in Plone of which many developers may not be aware. These helpful scripts are used throughout the default Plone skin, and are available for you to use in your templates as well. The nice part is that you don't need to know JavaScript to be able to use them, you just have to know how to structure your code properly for the existing JS to find it...
Chrissy Wainwright |
October 14, 2010
PSE2010 - Page Templates
For the first break-out session of the day, I attended Gregory Angle's talk on Page Templates. Greg works for PSU in the research department. He showed us a few specific pages on their website and talked about the customized templates he created to achieve the desired functionality. Along with each of the main examples, he also showed us the code used to make it work...
Chrissy Wainwright |
October 14, 2010
A Look Back at my Plone Training Experience
I had the privilege of leading a two-day training at Plone Symposium East 2010. I taught a group of five people how to customize the front-end design of a Plone site from start to finish...
Chrissy Wainwright |
October 14, 2010
