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An addendum to the problems I was having with Plone and Flash Player 10. Looks like another problem occurs with Opera if you change the content disposition header to “inline”. Basically, screeds of nonsense displaying instead of the Flash movie or the fall-back image. I’m not sure how widespread this problem is and I’m not [...]

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Just been looking at the download statistics for my Plone themes via PyPi. I’m not sure how they should be read or if they’ve been skewed by me doing various tests, but they’re quite interesting:

Theme name
Egg downloads (.egg)
Source downloads (.tar.gz)

Hamnavoe
71
5

Simplicity
59
N/A

Andreas02
15
13

I recently updated the source download for Hamnavoe which explains the discrepancy between Egg and source [...]

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Another pyrrhic victory maybe, but something that has made me exceptionally happy this afternoon. Basically, yesterday I upgraded my version of Flash Player to version 10 only to find that the Flash files on our Plone-powered site no longer worked.
The lovely folks at SWFObject helped to identify why this was happening — nothing to do [...]

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Veda William’s presentation slides about the OOTB Theming project [PDF] from this year’s Plone conference in Washington have been posted to Openplans. I was pleased to see both Simplicity and Hamnavoe included in the screenshots at the end of the presentation. Woohoo!

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I took part in my first Plone sprint over the weekend. The Theming sprint took part after the main Plone conference in Washington, but I did it from the comfort of my own study. Actually the whole experience was pretty hands-off: I checked in with the others via IRC, agreed what I’d be working on [...]

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