Thanks to a tweet by @pypi I discovered collective.backtowork, created by Patrick Gerken.

Are you using a jQuery plugin, for instance jQuery UI, to spice up the Django admin site? Then you might get either an error like “foo is not a function” (Firebug) or “Object … has no method foo” (Chrome Developer Tools). Confused because foo should be defined in the plugin? Don't worry, the solution is simple.

A lightning talk by Thijs Jonkman at the Dutch Plone User Day once again brought Compass to my attention. I've read about it on other occasions, but I never actually tried it. But Thijs really wet my appetite. 

This article is a short example of how to use a list as a value of a dict when using plone.app.registry. Perhaps a similar example is already in the docs, but I could not find it when I was looking for it. And since it took me some trial and error to get it right, I figured I could just as well post my solution.

On June 16th Jan-Jaap Driessen from The Health Agency (THA) organised a meeting to share knowledge about using Puppet, zc.buildout, release management and how those are related. For the most part, Jan-Jaap showed us his setup. My impression in one word: wow! They are running a tight ship at THA!

A tale of how I learned about PostgreSQL sequence generators the hard way.

Today I wanted to set the workflow for the content type File to (Default).

After migrating a Plone 2.5 site to Plone 3, I got a UnicodeEncodeError when viewing the site.

One of the things that was still on my wish list for this site, was a proper search. In two articles I will explain how I've done this. The previous article described why I picked Djapian. This article focusses on some of the technical aspects of my setup.