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Compiling lxml on 64bit CentOS
Read more »: Compiling lxml on 64bit CentOSA few days ago I encountered a problem while deploying Plone 4 with collective.xdv to a CentOS cloud instance. Since CentOS’ repos were a bit out of date I needed to statically compile lxml and it’s dependencies with z3c.recipe.staticlxml. Here’s what you need to add to your buildout.cfg to do so: parts += lxml eggs…
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DD-WRT + Tunnelblick = OpenVPN
Read more »: DD-WRT + Tunnelblick = OpenVPNDebating about VPNs on the Sauna Sprint, sprinters convinced me that we should use VPN for remote access to our internal services in our office. And for an extra layer of security when using public networks. So here it goes. Certificates I didn’t want to install openssl and openvpn on my Macbook just so I…
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Back from Helsinki
Read more »: Back from HelsinkiI’m back from another legendary sprint: Plone Sauna Sprint in Helsinki. No need to say anything more, here are the reports: Plone Sauna Sprint mid-term report Plone Sauna Sprint final report Next on schedule: Plone Conference in Bristol.
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Clickbank integration for Plone
Read more »: Clickbank integration for PloneSo you want paid membership on your Plone site? Look no further, we present to you niteoweb.clickbank. It’s a Plone 4 add-on that integrates ClickBank digital products retailer system with Plone to enable paid memberships on your Plone site. It’s very simple to install and use. Project page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/niteoweb.clickbank Documentation: http://packages.python.org/niteoweb.clickbank Code: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/niteoweb.clickbank
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MladiPodjetnik.si performance tweaks
Read more »: MladiPodjetnik.si performance tweaksMladiPodjetnik.si is a portal we’ve been actively developing since 2006 and has since seen 3 revisions. The latest one, running on Plone 3.1, was running out of juice due to enormous increase in traffic in the last year. It was time to do some performance optimization. 1. We started out by upgrading Plone to the…
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New Plone website – Vodja.si
Read more »: New Plone website – Vodja.siIt’s time for a new website release. This time it’s Vodja.si. Vodja.si is a presentation website for a NLP and leadership trainer Marjan Račnik. The base for the project is default Plone CMS with a unique theme developed from a Photoshop mockup and some Plone add-ons such as ContentWellPortlets. The site also has an intranet…
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IMW, Athens and Cathedral sprints
Read more »: IMW, Athens and Cathedral sprintsI’ve attended 3 sprints in the past month. Sprints are a great way to learn new Plone techniques and of course to meet fellow plonistas. I love the fact that I was able to attend 3 in just one month. Next one on the schedule: Plone Sauna Sprint in Helsinki in the end of July.…
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New project – BigContentSearch.com
Read more »: New project – BigContentSearch.comLast week we introduced a new project – BigContentSearch.com. It will be the first PLR membership website on the internet with over 100,000 articles in a searchable database. Since we are dealing with a huge amount of data, we want to use Plone 4 with it’s out-of-the-box blob storage capabilities. Since Plone 4 is still…
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OS X specific .cfg for collective.xdv
Read more »: OS X specific .cfg for collective.xdvThe collective.xdv manual on plone.org tells you how to customize your buildout.cfg in order to be able to run collective.xdv on OS X. However if you are working in a team of developers where not everyone is using OS X, it’s nice to have your specific buildout hacks in a separate osx.cfg file. Below is…