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Plone: graphical work flow editor

Creating work flows is a PITA, and usually is to be done by non-developers. Enter collective.workflowed.

MAC: speed up macports install sessions

Macports does compile things to install from source. Read on how to speed up things.

About using python pickles in a secure way

More a internal note than a real post.

Deployment using fabric

Deployment using a very simple and lean mechanism (Python) on a ssh-enabled cluster

Plone: Kapil does it again -- enter contentmirror

Transparent serializing of Plone content to relational DBs. NOT using pickles. Very easy to integrate, and very flexible, as it seems.

Wbox: A little tool to do quick HTTP tests

Think of it as a HTTP-ping.

Debuggers, Omelettes and Eggs

Zipped eggs are a PITA during development, and so is a module where you can't step to because PDB does'nt find the source. Read on for a solution.

Speed up TDD with Plone

TDD w/o extensive mock-them-objects work is quite slow in Plone due its startup time. Enter roradrunner.

Python: use pycurl instead of httplib

The built-in httplib module is slow, but luckily there's rescue: pycurl

Python: Erlang-like pattern matching in Python

 

Plone: Z3 Schema field for plone.relations

Zope 3 schema for plone.app.relations items.

Plone: GoReplace -- Search/Replace in Plone

REGEX + SmartFolders = GoReplace! With GoReplace you can "Find & Replace" content on your plone site.

Tools: Oracle Shell SQL*Plus in Python

SQLPython is a SQL command-line client designed with extensibility and personalization in mind.

Web Programming: JavaScript explained

Some great JS videos over at Yahoo. Highly recommended!