08. Jan 2009 
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As I gleam more information through blogs and microblogs there comes a time when the fun wears off and overload sets in.
In 2009, I’ve decided to tame overload and reinstate fun with some simple rules:
For Twitter (and other microblogging services):
Follow only folks that have a reasonable number of posts per day. Chronic Twitters (some individuals, [...]
25. Oct 2008 
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If you’re using Gmail, and want to manage it using GTD, I found a great solution.
I’m now using Remember the Milk as my primary GTD tool with the Firefox extension for Gmail. The extension lets you see all your action items on the right side of the Gmail page (grouped by day) and lets you [...]
18. Oct 2008 1 comment
A recurring conference theme for me centered around agility. Plone has benefited by moving from Zope2 to the more flexible Zope3 Component Architecture. Zope technologies are being made available as middleware for use on other platforms (via Repoze and WSGI). Grok is a Zope3 framework for projects needing something more lightweight. There were several very [...]
20. Sep 2008 1 comment
Scale and Performance – Being Awesome
After Web Collective just finished a Django website that needed to scale to 12,000 simultaneous peak users, Flickr architect Cal Henderson’s keynote was timely and very entertaining – particularly his commentary on “serious” frameworks and essentially a comic roasting of all of the major ones.
Since most of us are building [...]
19. Aug 2008 0 comments
This is a Plone product that implements an Open Source version of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.
New in this release:
This version fixes all known unicode issues, so that non-ascii characters can now be used throughout interface for editing, viewing, and KSS inline editing.
For download, please visit http://plone.org/products/collectivegtd-thoughts/releases/1.0b2
Change log:
NEW: Fixed all known unicode issues which [...]
16. Aug 2008 0 comments
Cooperative Businesses are relatively new in the consulting and services field, as compared with more well known producer coops.
We’ve spent the last two years forming and running a Cooperative Business, and hope others consider doing the same.
The combination of organizing as a Cooperative, being part of Plone and other Open Source software communities, and partnering [...]
25. Apr 2008 0 comments
Here is how I added inline editing for multiple rows of data to my CollectiveGTD Plone 3.0 product using KSS.
This was challenging in that it was my first KSS project, plus most of the KSS editing examples I’ve found deal with editing just one piece of content (instead of multiple rows).
Here is a screencast to [...]
19. Apr 2008 1 comment
I’ve just released the beta of CollectiveGTD, and have included a screencast to provide an overview of current functionality.
This beta release of CollectiveGTD for Plone 3.0 includes new features such as:
AJAX Inline Editing using KSS
Filtering of Actions by Context tag and Project tag
An Import script that will import an iGTD CSV export and which is [...]
18. Apr 2008 3 comments
Justin James and I presented our talk “Plone and Django: Comparing Tools for Python Web Developers” at Seattle Plone last night to an enthused audience.
Most were familiar with just one platform or the other, so it was a great opportunity to ask questions and learn about the strengths of each platform.
http://presentations.webcollective.coop/django-plone
29. Jan 2008 0 comments
What does the process look like when 80+ people get together in a weekend with the goal of building a new company and a product?
Here’s a quick overview of:
how the development process worked
the platform we picked (Python and Django)
the successful building of a complete website in two days (skillbit.com)
and what’s next.