Django Saves the Day
While Flask is helpful for getting started, Django is a "batteries included" approach to web development.
Shane Hathaway |
September 29, 2021
Improving the Edit Block in Volto
In Getting Started with Custom Blocks in Volto, we walked through the basic structure setup for a custom block and registered it with Plone’s React-based frontend, Volto. Now, we'll review the simple Edit Component.
Annette B. Lewis |
August 31, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Episode 09 — Matthew Wilkes
Episode 9 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Matthew Wilkes.
Kim Nguyen |
August 25, 2021
Secrets of Building Python Container Images for AWS Lambda
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a handy and scalable tool used to run code on demand. Today, developers can use container images for Lambda code — a helpful way to run much more complex code in a familiar package. However, there are some non-obvious differences from normal containers which can make building Python app images for AWS Lambda somewhat frustrating.
Peter Hull |
August 12, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Episode 08 — Annette Lewis
Episode 8 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Annette Lewis.
Kim Nguyen |
July 29, 2021
The Zen of Python: Bootstrapping Your Local Python Environment
Established, senior developers might be able to install Python easily, but are they following the Zen of Python when it comes to best practices for environment settings and versioning? In his talk, “Bootstrapping your Local Python Environment,” Calvin discusses how to optimize system setups.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
July 22, 2021
4 Volto Add-Ons to Jumpstart Your Content Editing Experience
Volto also offers in-place editing, a drag-and-drop layout configuration and a toolbar that dynamically changes to show only the actions needed in the moment.
Annette B. Lewis |
July 12, 2021
Improve and Automate Plone Caching with collective.cloudfront
collective.cloudfront is a Plone add-on designed to watch for Purge notifications from plone.app.caching and send the corresponding invalidation requests to an instance of Amazon’s CloudFront.
Rob McBroom |
June 24, 2021
Getting Started with Custom Blocks in Volto
Volto is the React-based frontend for Plone and will be the default frontend from Plone 6 forward. It’s highly customizable and allows content editors to assemble pages using Blocks.
Annette B. Lewis |
June 11, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Episode 07 — Paul Roeland
Episode 7 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Paul Roeland.
Kim Nguyen |
May 26, 2021
An Official Cloud Migration Cookbook
Whether you are responsible for a single application, a large environment or somewhere in between, it’s likely you’ve wanted to know how to maximize your cloud service providers’ capabilities. Explore templates, critical considerations and techniques to successfully tackle a cloud migration.
Caleb Gosnell |
May 21, 2021
Using Plone’s .zexp Export/Import for Debugging
It’s best practice to debug or develop against the same content that is in production, but what should you do if there’s a limited amount of space to work with and the full production data can’t be pulled down? You can use Zope’s export/import.
Chrissy Wainwright |
May 13, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Special Edition — World Plone Day 2021 Panel
This special edition episode of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features four guest panelists: Chrissy Wainwright, Érico Andrei, Timo Stollenwerk and Philip Bauer.
Kim Nguyen |
April 28, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Episode 06 — Franco Pellegrini
Episode 6 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Franco Pellegrini.
Kim Nguyen |
April 21, 2021
Serverless Django: Exploring the State of the Art on AWS
As deployment options for web apps have multiplied in the past few years, AWS Lambda continues to stand out as a powerful, simple way to run a web app with minimal maintenance and cost — if there is low traffic.
Shane Hathaway |
April 12, 2021
How To Collaboratively Edit Microsoft Office Documents within Plone
Plone out-of-the-box allows editors to upload files (e.g., a Microsoft Word document) that other users can view and download, but until recently, the option to collaboratively edit uploaded documents has not been an option.
Chrissy Wainwright |
March 31, 2021
How To Create and Manage Child Sites with Out-of-the-Box Plone
Maintaining and managing multiple websites is no small feat. One way to alleviate the burden of website maintenance is to consolidate multiple websites into a single parent site using child sites.
Annette B. Lewis |
March 29, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Episode 05 — Chrissy Wainwright
Episode 5 of the Plone Podcast features guest Chrissy Wainwright. In her professional life, Chrissy Wainwright is a Senior Python Developer at Six Feet Up.
Kim Nguyen |
March 24, 2021
Hacking Django Channels for Fun (and Profit)
LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up, a Django-based virtual event platform, has always supported Slack for instant, in-app text communication. In addition to Slack, clients were requesting Discord integration, so Six Feet Up’s expert team of developers found a solution.
Peter Hull |
March 18, 2021
Terraforming Parts Unknown: Strategies for Expanding Your Terraform Repertoire
Anyone using Terraform to increase repeatability/reliability of an infrastructure has experienced the need — and urgency — to deploy resources that are entirely new.
Caleb Gosnell |
March 12, 2021
Plone is the Most Secure CMS: 5 Features
Plone is one of the most secure Content Management Systems (CMSs) on the market. It is open-source; it has been around for 20 years; and, knock on wood, it has never had a zero-day exploit.
Kim Nguyen |
March 8, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Episode 04 — Janina Hard
Janina is a web developer at Werkbank GmbH and has been working with Plone since 2010. She is a Plone core developer...
Kim Nguyen |
February 24, 2021
How to Leapfrog a Massive Django/Python Upgrade Successfully
Migrating from Django 1.7 to 3.1 is no small task. Besides having to deal with the upgrade of Django itself, you shouldn't forget that an upgrade like this implies an upgrade from Python 2 to 3 as well.
Roché Compaan |
February 17, 2021
Data Warehousing in Microsoft Azure
Data Warehousing is the process of storing and processing large amounts of data from many disparate sources.
Glenn Franxman |
February 11, 2021
How to Build Mosaic Pages in Plone
Mosaic is a Plone add-on which allows you to easily build custom layouts for your Plone pages without having to do any custom development...
Chrissy Wainwright |
February 1, 2021
Get your JSON Configuration In Line with GenSON
Using JSONSchema and Python GenSON to standardize thousands of JSON files
Glenn Franxman |
January 29, 2021
Plone Conf 2020 Recap
Plone Conf 2020 spanned nine days with two days of trainings, two sprint days, and five conference days.
Annette B. Lewis |
January 27, 2021
The Plone Podcast: Episode 03 — Víctor Fernández de Alba
Víctor is the co-author of the multilingual add-on and the default theme for Plone 5
Kim Nguyen |
January 26, 2021
Off-site Post: The Data Center of Tomorrow
My talk with Josh Hilliker of Intel about machine learning in the data center.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
December 21, 2020
Monolith to Cloud with Plone and AWS
Whether or not that's the right move for your company is a complicated question, but let's review what exactly it means to "move to the cloud.”
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
December 9, 2020