We’ve been moving the Unicity servers to new hosted premises, and upgrading from an old SPARC based Solaris server to Solaris 10 on x86. It’s taken some time, with Jim doing most of it. We’ve been upgrading the services from fairly old versions of things to newer and more feature… Read More
As you can probably see, I’ve change the site quite substantially. It’s quite a big move, overall. I’ve dropped Zope in favour of WordPress. Zope has been fine for my own software, but for blogging, it sucks. The blog software that’s available for Zope is pretty unfriendly, slow to be… Read More
TurboGears is my first choice for a new webapp platform, as both it and Django seem to have a reasonable following. TurboGears seems to suit my ethos for a webapp platform more than Django for a variety of not particularly conscious reasons. It just feels more like what I want.… Read More
I’ve been contemplating moving away from Zope 2 as a web framework for a little while now. Once upon a time, I had high hopes for Zope. I thought that it might provide me with all the Role Based Authentication and template based stuff I might need, and with Python,… Read More
I finally got around to fixing the timezones for the Zope server. I’ve done this before for other servers, but hadn’t for the personal one, for some reason. Kudos to Andrew Milton for responding to my query to the OzZope mailing list last year explaining how: Zope DateTime sucks.It’s looking… Read More
It’s possible that you might come across this in your Plone site one day: you log in to edit something and notice a whole swag of items in the root folder_contents view. When you hover over them with your mouse, you can see by the link URL that the objects… Read More
