Goldegg / CMF 2.0 Sprint Wrap-up
tl;dr
The sprint at Schloss Goldegg was amazingly productive, and unlike some sprints, seems to have generated momentum for work beyond the tasks accomplished at the sprint.
Dumping and Reloading CMF Content
tl;dr
A proposal for an architecture supporting dump and reload of content in a CMF site.
Frostbite 0.2 Released
After previewing it at my talk today, I am releasing the Frostbite skin freezer product today.
Plone Conference 2005 Keynote: CMF 2.0 Roadmap
I presented the CMF 2.0 roadmap as my keynote for the Plone Conference 2005 today, and have uploaded the slides to the conference site.
ECMS: O/R vs. ZODB
The week before last, Florent Guillaume asserted that "object-relational [is] the keystone of a proper enterprise-grade application server", which left me more than a little uncomfortable. I spent a number of years working with "enterprise-grade" OO applications built atop Oracle and Sybase; from that experience, I am convinced that Florent underestimates the penalties associated with requiring that any ECMS must be based on RDBMS technology.
"Filthy English Pigdog" Login
ROFL. Lennart Regebro has released KniggetChallenge 1.1:
[Its] chief functionality is being an example of how to write a challenge plugin... and insulting people... Its two functionalities are examplyfying and insulting... and preventing a fallback to a BasicHTTPRequest challenge.... Its three functionalities are examplifying, insulting, and fallback prevention...
unittest and NIH
Phillip's defense of unittest seems spot on.
WSGI River Take My Mind
The Python Web-SIG is full of talk of the Web Services Gateway Interface (WSGI) spec (PEP 333).
Gumbo Bound
Chris McDonough and I leave at Oh-dark-thirty tomorrow for the Big Easy and the Plone Symposium.
Bippity, Boppity, Boo! (On moving CMF to Z3 Interfaces)
tl;dr
I spent some time today working on a branch for converting CMF to use Zope3-style interfaces, rather than the ones defined by Zope2.