Articles und How-Tos

Under Articles you will find information that we come across each working day and that we regard as relevant. The technically adept will find a collection of articles and recipes for their perusal.

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2007/04/05: Plone Workflows – Part 1

The first part of this workshop is intended as an introduction to the topic Plone workflows alltogether. It will attempt to convey how the Plone workflow concept is structured and what concepts are associated with it. The next part of the workshop will go into detail as regards the application of workflows. The main goal of this introduction is merely to explain the Plone workflow concept and the terminology adherent to it.

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2007/03/28: Using the Taconite jQuery Plugin under Zope

The AJAX Framework jQuery is considered one of the easiest to use and most light libraries. Particularly the expandability via plugins has moved multiple developers to develop various Open Source expansion tools. This article deals with the jQuery Taconite plugin in conjunction with Zope.

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2007/02/23: Service Name and PID of a Zope Instance

In certain situations it can be quite useful to discern the service name and the PID (process identifier) of a Zope instance - in order to monitor the instance, to control memory usage, or to start a new service, for example. This article descripes a Python program that assists to restart the service via a batch file.

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2007/02/22: Automated Program Configuration for Plone products

If the application of a Plone page is mainly defined by a personal product it is helpful to partially swap the installation and configuration. The following article shows a couple of examples that should serve as incitement.

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2007/02/22: Configuring the PyScripter IDE for Development of Zope Products

PyScripter has silently proven itself as a fantastic IDE for the development of Python projects. This article describes what configurations are necessary for the development of Zope projects.

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2007/02/21: Timestamp in batch files on international systems

Timestamps in batch scripts are rather useful when it comes to data storage in a chronological order, for example in the instance of backups, where it is important to store the data on a daily basis and being able to discern the particular day when used for restoration.

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2007/02/19: Exporting multiple CSS documents as a single file

Each reference on a style sheet of a HTML page generates a HTTP request to the server. This costs time. This article is intended to show how one can summarize multiple CSS documents on the service-side into a single file.

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2006/10/20: How to include ZMS Helper Code from a PythonScript

ZMS Helper's comprehensive set of functions is only available within DTML methods. With the following code snippet those functions are also callable from a Python script.

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2005/07/11: Pack the Zope database from an external Cronjob on a regular basis

This recipe shows how to create a windows batch file which packs your Zope database on a regular basis without having to store an unencrypted manager's password within the file system.

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2005/04/25: Show a Custom Error Message

This recipe shows how to handle Zope errors.

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