extending a buildout: taking out unwanted parts

I’m working on a suite of buildout configuration files to use for different circumstances. Having a special buildout for development in a zeo cluster, and another for a single monolithic zope instance (plus useful debug tools already installed) was easy to do and is working well.
I then get to the notion of staging vs production. [...]

ZopeSkel: Time For a Rebirth?

If you’re skimming this, I’d like to direct your attention to the poll below
I’ve been using ZopeSkel and advocating it’s use for over a year now. I’ve participated in a major sprint on it, I’ve taught it to friends and colleagues, and I’ve come to a conclusion:
ZopeSkel SUCKS.
OK, so it doesn’t really suck. IMHO, it [...]

I Used Macros In My Browser Views And Saved A Bunch of Money on My Car Insurance!

I had a template with a handful of tables that basically just displayed the same tabular data, just different data sets depending on the table. In case your curious, my data is segregated by workflow state.
I’ve had this problem before but in the past I had a skin layer registered too (thanks to ArchGenXML). [...]

Adventures In Theming – Followup

I wrote the Adventures In Theming series about a month ago as I was working my way through developing my first theme product for Plone 3. Initally it was a very long single blog post, but I figured it would be more useful to people if I split it up and released it over the [...]

Adventures In Theming: The Final Chapter

This is the seventh post in a short series about the ideas, trials and tribulations of my first theme product. I’ll be posting the whole story in one place when the series is complete.
I’m Not Done Yet
Now that the theme is finished, there are a few more steps before I can consider it truly complete.

Does [...]

Adventures In Theming: Overriding A Stock Viewlet

This is the sixth post in a short series about the ideas, trials and tribulations of my first theme product. I’ll be posting the whole story in one place when the series is complete.
I Forgot The Footer! (Overriding Stock Viewlets)
I’ve managed to get all of the styling nailed down. Here’s what it looks like [...]

Adventures in Theming: CSS and Hiding Viewlets

This is the fifth post in a short series about the ideas, trials and tribulations of my first theme product. I’ll be posting the whole story in one place when the series is complete.
A Touch Of Style
I’m going to continue using the Zope 3 resource approach with my style sheet. I don’t need DTML, I’m [...]

Adventures In Theming: Resources

This is the fourth post in a short series about the ideas, trials and tribulations of my first theme product. I’ll be posting the whole story in one place when the series is complete.
Resources
One of the parts of a theme that really sets it apart from the plone default, regardless of how similar it may [...]

Adventures In Theming: Rolling My Own Viewlet Manager

This is the third post in a short series about the ideas, trials and tribulations of my first theme product. I’ll be posting the whole story in one place when the series is complete.
The Viewlet Manager
There are 4 parts to a viewlet manager. There’s a class that implements zope.viewlet.interfaces.IViewletManager, a template that renders the output [...]

Adventures In Theming: The Product

This is the second post in a short series about the ideas, trials and tribulations of my first theme product. I’ll be posting the whole story in one place when the series is complete.
The Theme Product
I’ve done a lot of Plone development over the past couple of years, but I’ve never done anything with theming. [...]