21. Sep 2007 
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A roundtrip flight from Seattle to the East Coast is all you need to start your next Python pet project. (Remember to take some vacation in between though!)
I used this time to start development on a python library for the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. I’ve been practicing GTD over the last couple [...]
04. Sep 2007 
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In one fell swoop, Eric Magnuson’s interview in SIJ’s Five under 35 article highlights the recent formation of our company Web Collective Inc — as well as connections around worker-owned cooperatives, Seattle’s Business Alliance for Local Living Economics (BALLE) chapter, and the Sustainable MBA Program at Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
Many of us in Web Collective met [...]
04. Sep 2007 3 comments
Spam leaves no stone unturned. How does one protect those Plone web forms that are open for anonymous web users to spam, such as the Plone contact form?
I found a straight-forward and effective solution offered by the PloneCaptchas product. Here are the steps to add this feature to your default Plone contact form.
03. Sep 2007 0 comments
Back in March, Andrew Burkhalter and I wrote a tutorial for creating new content-types based on remember, and as part of that created the sampleremember Plone product. Since then, I’ve had a couple of live project opportunities to put sampleremember through its paces.
By September, I fixed bugs in sampleremember and added some unit tests, [...]
03. Sep 2007 0 comments
Existing users on a Plone 2.5 site (before migration to remember 1.0) can’t be deleted via the User and Group Administrator form. You’ll see ‘Runtime Error: No adapter found for user‘ when you try to delete one.
You can delete manually though via ‘zopectl’ or Clouseau.
$ ./bin/zopectl debug
>>> source_users = app.YOURPLONESITE_ID_HERE.acl_users.source_users
>>> # view all users:
>>> source_users.getUsers()
>>> [...]
28. Aug 2007 0 comments
Quills definitely seems the way to go for blogging in Plone 3 - it’s nicely engineered in a Zope 3 style and much work has gone into it recently during the Quills development via Google Summer of Code.
I had planned to create this blog using the latest Quills 1.6 trunk to learn both about blogging [...]