Posts for plone

Jan 14

Migrating to Django Mingus

I've migrated my blog from a creaking Plone 2.5 to a fork of Django Mingus. This is the process I went through.

Nov 08

Python, Unicode and UnicodeDecodeError

In the years I've been developing in Python, Unicode seems to be the topic which causes the greatest amount of confusion amongst developers. Hopefully much of this confusion should go away in Python 3, for reasons I'll come to at the end; but until then, the UnicodeDecodeError is the bane of many developers' lives.

May 07

Creating a Python 2.4, Plone and Zope Development Environment on Mac OS X Leopard

Compiling Python, Zope and Plone on Leopard isn't as easy as it is on Linux. Here's a walkthrough of the process, from a bare Leopard install right through to having a working Plone 3 development environment, using paster and buildout.