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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. buildout 2.x For buildout 2.x they implemented a lot of improvements for pinning versions. allow-picked-versions allow buildout to download pinned packages only. Not pinned but required packages will raise an Exception. show-picked-versions shows a summary of picked versions after your first buildout run. You can copy'n'paste this into a versions.cfg file. buildout 1.x Manually Without pinning your eggs it will be impossible to reproduce the deployed buildout configuration in future. Use a this buildout extension for future projects to avoid this pitfall: ...

Python, wxPython and robotframework RIDE on your macOS. Update 2016, 23 Feb Fixed wxPython installation so it works with most recent versions available today. Update 2017, 03 Jul Seems this installation method no longer works on >= MacOS Sierra. Please use a docker image and Ride in browser. wxPython Since wxPython is available on homebrew you don’t have to install the package provided on the wxPython website. $ brew info wxpython wxPython: stable 3.0.2.0 (bottled) Python bindings for wxWidgets https://www.wxwidgets.org/ /usr/local/Cellar/wxPython/3.0.2.0 (1,107 files, 38.2M) Poured from bottle From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/wxpython.rb ==> Dependencies Required: wxmac ✔ ==> Options --universal $ brew install wxpython This will take some time so be patient. ...

Quick guide howto get an encFs encrypted Dropbox subfolder automounted on login in macOS and indexed in Spotlight. Introduction First of all, Dropbox is a really useful piece of software. Your data is stored unencrypted inside an online storage and in this case it’s not suitable for secret data. You can bypass this disadvantage by encrypting a folder inside Dropbox. Prerequisits The following instructions expect you using a macOS but may also inspire Unix or Linux users. ...

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. Prerequisites You need your own BrowserLayer (a skin or theme product) or a contenttype with at least one marker interface to customize on. Howto Create a file called datecomponents.py in your browser directory with following content: from plone.app.form.widgets import datecomponents class DateComponents(datecomponents.DateComponents): def result(self, date=None, use_ampm=False, starting_year=None, ending_year=None, future_years=None, minute_step=5): # Change minute steps to 1 return super(DateComponents, self).result(date, use_ampm, starting_year, ending_year, future_years, 1) … and register it for you browserlayer (replace IThemeSpecific by your layer interface) or for a type you want to customize its widget (replace for='*' with your types interface), thats it. ...

You’re getting weird errors like “Connection refused” from your smtp library? By reconfiguring your local mailer to send mails through a smarthost you can solve this issue. Setting up a smarthost Setting up your macOS to use a smarthost to forward mails to is not very hard. I found a nice tutorial on fuerstnet.de which was the base of this blog post. Copy the lines: $ sudo postconf -e relayhost=your.isps.mailserver smtp_use_tls=yes smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_auth tls_random_source=dev:/dev/urandom smtp_sasl_security_options=noanonymous $ sudo sh -c 'echo "your.isps.mailserver username:password" >> /etc/postfix/smtp_auth' $ sudo chown root:wheel /etc/postfix/smtp_auth $ sudo chmod 600 /etc/postfix/smtp_auth $ sudo postmap hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_auth Problems I noticed postfix is quitting after 60 seconds. So if you send yourself a test email using: echo "test" | mail -s "test" your@email the postfix daemon will quit after 60 seconds and you’ll get these errors when trying to send mails through localhost in (for example) Plone: ...

If you have or your server has to use a proxy server to access the internet you may have problems with your svn client although you aready set your http_proxy environment variable(s). The solution to tell svn to use a proxy server is editing the ~/.subversion/servers file in your home directory and add the following lines or uncomment them, if they are already written into it: [global] # http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org http-proxy-host = my.proxy.server http-proxy-port = 8080 # http-proxy-username = defaultusername # http-proxy-password = defaultpassword # http-compression = no # http-auth-types = basic;digest;negotiate # No http-timeout, so just use the builtin default. # No neon-debug-mask, so neon debugging is disabled. # ssl-authority-files = /path/to/CAcert.pem;/path/to/CAcert2.pem

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. collective.captcha uses a BrowserView to display it’s captcha image. Therefore it’s very easy to customize it for your own theme because you can subclass that BrowserView for your own theme layer which is a BrowserLayer. You can change colors and/or fonts as you need it for your custom theme without doing any code change on the original collective.captcha package. ...