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NiteoWeb attended a Pyramid sprint in Halle, Germany
Read more »: NiteoWeb attended a Pyramid sprint in Halle, GermanyGocept, a company based in Halle (Saale), Germany, organized a Pyramid sprint, which lasted from 15th to 17th August 2013. The sprint took place at their headquarters which, by the way, has a lovely garden perfectly suited for relaxation, eating, drinking and development (not necessarily in that order!). A bunch of NiteoWeb former and present…
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Setuptools – run custom code in setup.py
Read more »: Setuptools – run custom code in setup.pyA week or so ago I started developing an experimental Python package for one of our projects. At some point I realized that it would be convenient to automatically execute some additional initialization code during the package installation process (i.e. when “python setup.py install” is run). This can be achived by subclassing the setuptools.command.install class…
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Write a Plone CLI maintenance script
Read more »: Write a Plone CLI maintenance scriptThis is a quick tip on how to write your own command line maintenance scripts for your Plone application. Recently one of our clients expressed a need for a maintenance script which would walk the database of a Plone application and, for every object, print out all the roles users have assigned on that object.…
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Load overrides.zcml in plone.app.testing
Read more »: Load overrides.zcml in plone.app.testingToday I was working on a project where we use overrides.zcml to easily override some default Plone behavior. All was working fine (in the browser, that is) until I started writing tests for our custom behavior. First thing I noticed was that the overrides.zcml was not loaded in our test layer. “Doh, I need to…
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Dexterity vs. Archetypes
Read more »: Dexterity vs. ArchetypesTL;DR: migrating your Archetypes content to Dexterity shrinks your Data.fs considerably! I’ve started looking into migrating Archetypes content in one of the sites we’re running to Dexterity. But before I started coding I wanted to make sure that the juice is worth the squeeze. The site contains roughly 130k content objects. Most of them are…
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Raspberry PI boot to browser
Read more »: Raspberry PI boot to browserHere at NiteoWeb, we use various SaaS monitoring and logging providers such as Librato Metrics and Papertrail to keep on top of our Plone and Pyramid projects. Hence the need to have a wall-mounted screen to display various graphs and outputs these services. What better way to drive the screen than a Raspberry Pi! Getting…