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Speed up TDD with Plone

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

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.

Wbox: A little tool to do quick HTTP tests

Think of it as a HTTP-ping.

Sending mails with python ...

... just sucks. Read on for a solution.

recipes: zest.recipe.mysql

 

recipes: z3c.recipes.tag

 

Python: properties mit @apply

Wie man unter Python eine property mitt @apply als decorator erzeugt.

OSX: Building lxml

lxml building woes on Mac OS X

Tools: WAN Emulator

WANem is a Wide Area Network Emulator, meant to provide a real experience of a Wide Area Network/Internet, during application development / testing over a LAN environment.

Plone: collective.formcriteria

Add forms for user enterable search criteria to collections/topic/smart folders

Plone: High-Performance Indexing using an external non-Zope indexer

Improve Plone's catalog performance

Plone: Forms finally made easy: z3c.forms integration to Plone using plone.z3cform

Forms using zope.formlib are a PITA to do (don't even mention CMF Form Controller). zc3.forms and plone.z3c.forms come to a rescue.

Web Programming: web2py

Crazy italians. A point-and-click web development environment.

OSX: Make the Help Window suck less on Leopard

The Help Window on OSX Leopard is annoying -- it floats always on top, has no dock icon and you can't switch to it using CMD-Tab. WTH Apple????

JS: Yahoo Videos

 

Web Programming: JavaScript explained

Some great JS videos over at Yahoo. Highly recommended!

Tools: Oracle Shell SQL*Plus in Python

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

Plone: GoReplace -- Search/Replace in Plone

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

Plone: Z3 Schema field for plone.relations

Zope 3 schema for plone.app.relations items.

Python: Erlang-like pattern matching in Python

 

Python: use pycurl instead of httplib

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

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.

Deployment using fabric

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

About using python pickles in a secure way

More a internal note than a real post.

MAC: speed up macports install sessions

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

Plone: graphical work flow editor

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

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