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Wget a Plone site (and make it actually work)

David — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:01:42 +0000

There’s a lot of different resources and posts on the web about how to export a Plone site to static html content, but no methodology would actually solve all of my problems. Now, Plone is inherently a complicated beast, given just how much it does, and that’s definitely putting it lightly. But here [...]

CSS: Internet Explorer and Self-Imposed Limitations (+ Plone)

David — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:52:07 +0000

Microsoft and IE are insane. Yes, we all knew this, but here’s the proof: IE won’t accept more than 30 style sheets to be loaded via <style> tags within a single page. Insanity? Yes. It’s made even worse by the fact they openly admit this lunacy! See the relevant support article from MS as proof. Good [...]

Apache: Directories and trailing slashes

David — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:51:49 +0000

Apache does something interesting (yes, I still think it’s logical) when you’re accessing a directory that it’s serving: if you access it without a trailing slash, it’ll add one by default. This makes sense if you’re going after some static content or a folder index (or pretty much any sane usage) but it [...]

Ubuntu: Crackling audio noises on a Dell M1530 (or HDA cards)

David — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:18:10 +0000

The problem I found (so did everyone else) when updating to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic was static/popping noises when your sound card is silent (aka goes into power-save mode). It applies to my Dell XPS M1530 laptop’s on-board sound and probably to the same chipset elsewhere. The fix couldn’t be simpler! Simply edit this [...]

(Lack of) Kupu CSS Styles, Plone and Deliverance

David — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:13:47 +0000

Note: see this post for up-to-date details. Essentially, the issue is that Deliverance doesn’t theme (and rightly so) the Kupu editor within Plone and hence any styles applied to normal pages by Deliverance don’t show up. My workaround, as detailed on that post, is to customise the “emptypageresources” page template and include a suitable link to [...]

Logged out users can’t bring up the Plone popup calendar

David — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:10:16 +0000

It’s another one of those ’strange’ problems that has cropped up, but by default in Plone, users who aren’t authenticated aren’t actually able to bring up a pop-up calendar on a date field. It’s amazing that I haven’t run into this issue before with something like PloneFormGen, where you’d think that a simple Date input field [...]

David tries Plone 4.0a2 (Part 2)

David — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:21:24 +0000

Rightio! So we’ve got Plone 4.0a2 installed and up and running. Boy, she looks sweet: The new Plone site setup is flawlessly simple. No more ZMI for those of us that don’t want to use it. It’ll always still be useful, but having Plone throw up a simple, no no-nonsense front-end installer is just what it [...]

David tries Plone 4.0a2 (Part 1)

David — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:48:34 +0000

Plone 4 is approaching! Excellent! Lots of new features to play around with and plenty more things to have to fix with the upgrade. I’ve been keeping tabs on the change log of updates and it’s looking really good. Lots of little, but significant, changes are afoot. Now, how about actually installing the Alpha 2 [...]

Start screen after su’ing to another user

David — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:49:37 +0000

Today’s problem is one that requires no introduction (well, maybe it does ) but it’s a problem nonetheless. The issue is that after using the ‘su‘ command to become another user, there’s trouble running screen sessions. This page (http://dbadump.blogspot.com/2009/04/start-screen-after-sudo-su-to-another.html) details it simply and perfectly (which, yes, I know in turn came from another [...]

Deliverance, Plone, and tags

David — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:17:40 +0000

It’s been a little bit of time since my last post, and who can blame me with my site having been down for almost 2 full days over the last week! I’m not paying that much for the webspace, thankfully, but if I was, I’d be seeing red over it. Apparently some patch for MySQL [...]