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collective.table alpha release
Read more »: collective.table alpha releaseIntroduction It’s now past the mid-term evaluation deadline for my Google Summer of Code project and it’s time to release my work out to the wider community to receive feedback and ideas on how to improve it. Status During the last days I was focusing on polishing the first release: writing documentation, adding more comments,…
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collective.table GSoC report
Read more »: collective.table GSoC reportIntroduction It’s now been over a month since I started my Google Summer of Code project. It’s been a fun month, full of newly learned tricks, mostly courtesy of my mentor Martijn Pieters, Jarn AS. Our goal is to have an ability in Plone to store arbitrary pieces of tabular data, in the same way…
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Collective SVN project -> GitHub
Read more »: Collective SVN project -> GitHubMore and more Plone projects are being migrated over to GitHub for various reasons. Here’s a quick guide on how to import your Collective SVN project into GitHub. GitHub can directly import SVN projects only by specifying a URL to the repository. However, for some reason this does not work for Collective SVN repositories. The…
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Assertion `t_size >= b_size’ failed
Read more »: Assertion `t_size >= b_size’ failedRecently, when migrating a Plone 4 site from one VPS server instance to another, we had the following problem: We were not able to start Zope with Supervisord because it crashed every time we tried to start it. Running Zope in foreground (bin/instance fg) produced the following error: Python: Objects/typeobject.c:1736: extra_ivars: Assertion `t_size >= b_size’…
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Deploying Cyn.in 3.1.3 on CentOS 5.4
Read more »: Deploying Cyn.in 3.1.3 on CentOS 5.4Last week we were upgrading Cyn.in to the latest version. After a few days of testing on a local server it was time to deploy it to the server. Since Cyn.in needs quite some RAM to operate normally, we chose Virpus VPS instance with 2 gigs of RAM, running CentOS 5.4. Running buildout on the…
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Testing memoized methods
Read more »: Testing memoized methodsFor a recent Plone project we needed to write unit tests for methods that were using plone.memoize for caching return values. With a standard Plone’s PloneTestCase I got the following error: Error in test test_main_image (niteoweb.elcond.tests.test_stol.TestContent) Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/zupo/work/python/parts/opt/lib/python2.6/unittest.py”, line 279, in run testMethod() File “/Users/zupo/work/niteoweb.elcond/src/niteoweb/elcond/tests/test_stol.py”, line 75, in test_main_image image…
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Order of ‘parts’ when compiling lxml
Read more »: Order of ‘parts’ when compiling lxmlCentOS’s repos don’t have a working version of libxslt (you need 1.1.20, repos have 1.1.17) so we need to statically compile it for collective.xdv to work. But, there is a catch! You need to be careful about how you order your parts in your buildout.cfg. For examle, the following buildout.cfg works perfectly fine, it downloads…
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Upgrade Cyn.in 2.1 to 3.1.3
Read more »: Upgrade Cyn.in 2.1 to 3.1.3We started using Cyn.in for internal documentation repository about 2 years ago. We are a small team of developers and we don’t use all of it’s features, but we still do use it daily and have grown to love it. It’s just great to have a place to store all little bits and pieces of…
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Click2Sell integration for Plone
Read more »: Click2Sell integration for PloneAfter integrating Clickbank with Plone last month we decided we also need integration with Click2Sell affiliate marketing network. A new Plone add-on was born: niteoweb.click2sell. The add-on has the same feature-set as it’s sister add-on niteoweb.clickbank, enabling you to have paid membership on your Plone site. It’s very simple to install and use. Project page:…