For years web development was quite predictable. The resolution of the average screen slowly but steadily increased, bandwidth became less of an issue and everything was good. Then smartphones became mainstream. Suddenly we have to make sure our websites are also accessible on small screens. And bandwidth may also be limited to a few kilobytes per second. In other words: new challenges. But how are we responding to them?
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!
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.