Jochen and I started thinking about implementing placeless content for Plone. We need to get something like this implemented as it’s of use for a client of ours.
So here’s the first board shot from our thoughts. I will put this into a more readable format with comments soon and we will add this to the […]

So on the next saturday (3/Jun that is) ender, MrTopf and Tiran will meet up to do a little aachen sprint. Main topic will be the UI for PLIP #16, which means doing a new localrole form for Plone.
And as things happen this is also the day, the tour de france starts.. and not somewhere […]

So here’s the original post by Mark Murphy (markm@tyrell.com):

Hello Plone community,

My name is Mark Murphy. I’m a board member of the Plone Foundation
and am the Assistant Treasurer.

The interim board of the Plone Foundation has created a Membership
Committee which I’ve been appointed Chair.

I’d […]

A problem with structured text might be that for newbies it’s hard to remember the syntax. This could be easily solved like on wikipedia.org, which means adding an icon toolbar.
There would even more complex functions possible as uploading and transforming an image, defining a reference and inserting it into the code (putting links into a […]

The best content type ever is probably a very flexible one with the possibility to configure it to the site needs. Compared to the now established Document, File, Link and Image types in Plone it should do much more.
The might be:

the possibility to easily define it’s fields (by defining a configuration either TTW or on […]

Actually quite nicely shown by this picture:

(thanks to #b4mad for this insight)

Was again annoyed this morning at searching for some document and being unable to remember in which folder I put it..
Shouldn’t this problem be solved at some point? Actually hierarchies do not make sense all the time.. And when looking
at my home folder I actually hardly see any hierarchy anyway
So why not replace […]

Recently I was thinking about so called speaking urls which means URLs of the form /chapter/section/subsection/article compared to /5362. Do such URLs give any advantage to e.g. id-based URLs or maybe completely hidden ones. Should the user care about this piece of information?
There are some issues with URLs and the underlying filename/folder concept anyway:

it’s sometimes […]