Posts in Plone

Connect devpi to your docker container

You’re running pip install, buildout or your automated tests within a docker container and after running it multiple times you’ve become tired of waiting for it to finally complete? Then it’s time to connect a devpi server.

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Plone 6.0: What I expect

We’re still working on Plone 5.0 but for PLOG 2015 I put all my thoughts together and want to share with you what I expect Plone 6.0 to include.

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Image filesize validator for dexterity content types in Plone

When using Plone 4.3 with plone.app.contenttypes you might want to limit max filesize for images by implementing a custom z3c.form validator. In ATCT we were able to limit max image filesize by overwriting ATCT config file or setting in portal_atct tool.

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Use Babel to translate your python package

I use egg-containing buildouts for all my plone packages. Since i18ndude does not extract msgids from zcml files, i tried Babel and succeeded.

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Turbo twitter Bootstrap theming for Plone using Diazo

When building a new Plone theme based on twitter Bootstrap without modifying core templates you have to do a lot of xsl-styling. Hopefully this article can help you getting started.

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Plone test development with robotframework and RIDE

Test driven development can be a pain. If you are working with Zope and Plone most of time gets consumed starting up Zope running setUp method and rolling back transaction in tearDown method.

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Howto use buildout version pins

When using Plone with buildout you want to be able to reproduce your environment with the same set of eggs, even if there were some new releases in between.

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Install Robot Framework RIDE through homebrew

Python, wxPython and robotframework RIDE on your Mac OS X

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Secure your Dropbox

Quick guide howto get an encFs encrypted Dropbox subfolder automounted on login in OS X and indexed in Spotlight.

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Change minute_step in Archetypes DateTimeWidget

Sometimes you need minutes which could not be divided by 5 which Plone doesn’t select you by default. You don’t need to rewrite core components in Archetypes DateTimeWidget to change this.

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Howto use custom color for collective.captcha?

How to use your custom color with collective.captcha and Plone? This tutorial shows you an easy way to customize it using your own BrowserLayer.

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