Views in Plone have been introduced in Plone 2.1 and they basically allow you to define the way e.g. a folder
listing is rendered (photoalbum, table, listing etc.) by defining which skin is to be used for it (don’t
confuse these Plone views with Zope3 views. They are completely different right now).
While this was a great enhancement […]

Finally things in the EuroPython realm get a bit clearer. After some people were already wondering if it will happen at all, we now have the registration open (unfortunately Benedikt was ill and that crippled the communication a bit but these things have been sorted out and Benedikt also seems well again!).
So I am planning […]

See here the in-depth interview with Martin Aspeli from the Plone Archipelago Sprint Norway 2006. We talk about Viewlets, Browser Menus and about Paul’s proposal how to skin a Plone site externally.

You will also see some evening impressions about the sprint at the end.

This episode features an interview with Jan Murre and Jimmy Small as well as one with Raphael Ritz. You will also see more of the faces attending the Plone Archipelago Sprint following up the part in episode 2.

During the sprint I was (at least a little) working with Tom Lazar on the markup stuff.
The idea here was to enable more markups via PortalTransforms and then make the default
configurable. This means that for any TextField not defining allowable_types a user defined
default markup should be used. For this part Martin Aspeli proposed to […]

Laurence Rowe just told us on IRC that he checked in some code showing his formlib stuff in the collective. For those uninitiated: formlib is the way in Zope3 to create forms and Laurence was working at the archipelago sprint to make it work in Zope2 as well.
What you need is the SVN trunk of […]

I am now on the way home from the sprint after staying 2 additional days in Oslo. And while I wasn’t
doing much coding at the sprint in favour of doing videos I actually did get a bit into AJAX in Oslo as
Balazs Ree and Raphael Ritz were also staying over night and because Balazs gave […]