Here I discuss the approach that's forming to handle the 'branching questions' requirements (and some other things where PasteScript is lacking) in Crushinator. Please take a look, and let me know what you think.
September 29, 2011
I’m now officially on twitter, @jjmojojjmojo . Adding folks from the developer communities I’m involved with, and noticed a tweet from @optilude, mentioning this: http://www.screenr.com/b1Rs. I want to take a closer look at the UI later today, but it looks pretty great so far. This tweeing thing might be more fruitful than I ever thought.
September 24, 2011
100% test coverage may be impossible, but this week I’ve found that striving for it has many benefits. I’ve been working on a new project that’s based on the Pyramid framework. The framework creators claim 99% test coverage. The other developer and I thought that was pretty great, and decided that setting a similar goal… [Read more…]
August 2, 2011
I’ve got some good docs written up and posted over at http://code.google.com/p/lionfacelemonface/wiki/CrushinatorDesign. I’m interested in hearing others thoughts on the requirements, approach, design, etc. It’s a work in progress; I feel pretty good about most of the decisions made but everything is up for discussion. I’m currently working on the implementation details. I also presented… [Read more…]
July 13, 2011
We have the annotate command that buildout provides. It’s great, but what I wish it did was resolve all of the values and give me a usable buildout.cfg that I could potentially reuse, diff, etc. As your buildouts get more modular and flexible, a tool like that becomes more and more important. Using buildout.extensionscripts, I… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011
Using paster to create layouts for various types of projects is great, especially when you need to get up and running quickly. The downside, is that that sometimes the hand-holding, even along with some amazing documentation, doesn’t give you the whole story. I’m in the planning stages for a new project, and although I’m still… [Read more…]
February 24, 2011
Here’s a quick jquery snippet that you can use with modern versions of plone to do the little spinner status thingy during an ajax load: /*** * Overload default ajax methods and show a spinner graphic under the mouse pointer when things are loading ***/ $(function(){ var spinner = $(''); spinner.css({ display: 'none', position: 'absolute',… [Read more…]
February 23, 2011
I should expand on this more, but here’s a quick note about something I just did in a project I’m working on that may help some other people: You know that Add… menu in the green bar when you have edit privileges on a page (I think the actual permission is ‘Modify portal content’)? Have… [Read more…]
February 8, 2011
I mentioned in my last post that RelStorage is the new cool, and I lamented briefly about how my application shouldn’t suck, but it does because of something I can’t really figure out, because none of the profiling tools of yore work with the newest zope and, by the transitive property of major suckage, they… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
Last night in a desperate attempt to squeeze some performance out of a plone site that was being loaded with data marshalled from a MySQL database (a new plone-based app is replacing the old generic php-introspects-the-db frontend generator-based one). Only about 3000 objects, bad performance, lots of CPU and RAM used, etc. And it’s Plone… [Read more…]
October 8, 2011
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