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Add Eject Button To Boxee
Boxee is great, but how could they have forgotten the eject button?
Buildout to compile and install Apache, MySQL and PHP
I created a buildout that will compile and install Apache2, MySQL5 and PHP5 together.
Installing PIL on Mac OS X Leopard virtualenv with easy_install
What do you do when you need to install PIL in a virtualenv on Mac OS X and it won't build for you? I'll walk through getting it to work.
Moving to Picasa Update
Everything didn't go as well as I hoped, but I fixed all the problems I was coming across...
Moving from Flickr to Picasa Web Albums
The Picasa Desktop Client has made me decide to move back to using Picasa Web Albums. It is superior to Flickr in many ways. Here is my experience in switching...
Site Update
I just updated my server with a new and improved buildout. I am now using repoze.zope2, Deliverance and Zine in the setup to make it wsgi'd. In this post I provide an overview of the setup.
Upgrades to collective.plonetruegallery
With the advent of the collective.plonetruegallery 0.8 series, a lot of improvements have been introduced.
Creating and subscribing to events in Zope
This will show you how to create events and subscribe to them using Zope 3 approaches. These methods will also work in Plone.
Using a BrowserView as a traversable adapter utility in Plone
This will show you how to make a traversable multi-adapter on the context and request object that can be called within tal expressions and used as utilities elsewhere. It is done the exact same way as the plone_tools, plone_context_state, plone_portal_state BrowserViews you see used often throughout Plone viewlets and tal expressions.
Using the zope debug console
A short howto on using the zope debug console.
Automatically Pack The ZODB
This just goes over how you can automatically have the ZODB packed once a day. Does not use a cron job either.
Backing Up Plone
Simple reference for backing up plone...
Give Each Plone Site A Data.fs
Separate each Plone instance into having its own Data.fs to make backups easier.
Using A Proxy In Mac OS X With SSH
This little tutorial will show you how to use a proxy server on Mac OS X with only SSH installed on your proxy server. This involves getting Firefox to use the SOCKS server and Cocoa applications.
Find process in terminal on linux
This simple commands helps in finding certain processes to kill in linux....
Run Process In Background command
How to run process in the background while sending the output to a log file. I use this command to start cherrypy.
Plone Localization
Documenting my experience on adding French Language support to collective.plonetruegallery. Good reference for how to do localization support in Plone products.
Plone boot and shutdown startup script
example script of what is placed in your /etc/init.d directory. Credits go to T. Kim Nguyen on this.