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Entries Tagged as 'zope'

Plone and Flash Player 10

October 17th, 2008 · 11 Comments

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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Tags: UI · flash · plone · web design · web development · zope

Setting the request object in Zope

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

One of those “note-to-self” type posts, but this is something I always have problems remembering for some reason.
It’s quite easy to set a property in the request object using request.set(’key’, ‘value’) in your Python script. However, if you then redirect to another page this property is lost. What you need to do is something along [...]

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Tags: plone · zope

All themed up and ready to go

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

After a short period of inactivity, I had a concentrated burst of work on my theme which is very nearly finished. Doing the CSS work wasn’t too hard; after all I chose a simple theme to start on as I knew the majority of my time would be spent getting my head around Plone 3.
So, [...]

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Tags: plone · plone-themes · plone3 · python · web design · zope

Presentations from Zope/Plone day

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

The presentations for the Zope/Plone day at Birkbeck are now available.

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Tags: plone · zope

Zope/Plone day at Birkbeck

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

We held a Zope/Plone users and developers day at Birkbeck yesterday (12 February 2008), the second in hopefully a long running series of events aimed at users of Zope and Plone in UK higher education.
As with the first one in Bristol in May 2007, it was very useful. We had a number of presentations on [...]

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Tags: plone · zope