Well put, Gail Collins: Imagine what would happen if a new beetle infested the Iowa corn crop during the first year of a McCain administration. On Monday, we spray. On Tuesday, we firebomb. On Wednesday, the president marches barefoot through the prairie in a show of support for Iowa farmers. On Thursday, the White House reveals that Wiley Flum, [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
links for 2008-09-16
Posted in General on Sep 16th, 2008
A Turbogears Guy on What Django Can Learn from Plone interesting talk on monolithic apps vs modular apps [...]
Here’s a theory…
Posted in General on Sep 14th, 2008
I don’t have a degree in psychiatry, but it occurred to me the other day that Sarah Palin represents the right wing’s subconscious longing for collective suicide. I’m just sayin’.
links for 2008-09-12
Posted in General on Sep 12th, 2008
collective.contentleadimage — Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management provides a configurable thumbnail image for any AT-based content in plone. interesting. [...]
Thought of the day
Posted in General on Sep 12th, 2008
Received via email. Kudos and amen to its anonymous creator.
Thoughts on collective.contentleadimage
Posted in General on Sep 11th, 2008
I’ve just spent a few minutes checking out Radim Novotny’s new product collective.contentleadimage aka “ContentLeadImage,” which promises to provide simple thumbnail images for all Plone content objects. It’s a neat idea that scratches an itch we often feel here at ONE/Northwest, but unfortunately, I think the execution is still a bit too rough for production [...]
ATImageEditor: evolving quickly!
Posted in General on Sep 2nd, 2008
Nathan Van Gheem’s beautiful product-in-the-making, ATImageEditor, an image editor for Plone, is coming along nicely. Since I first wrote a gushy love note to it a couple weeks ago, Nathan’s been hard at work improving it with: Control over JPEG compression quality (very useful!)A new UI featuring a photoshop-style floating image editor palette (very spiffy!)Display of [...]
links for 2008-09-02
Posted in General on Sep 2nd, 2008
FOSS Leadership Training (tags: leadership open-source) [...]
Contrarian thinking about online organizing
Posted in General on Sep 1st, 2008
Here’s an idea that’s been tumbling around in my brain for a while, and popped out yesterday during a walk: A lot of people think online organizing helps build enthusiasm about an issue or campaign, and thus holds tremendous promise for small, obscure campaigns. I think the promise is oversold, and that the most enthusiastic proponents [...]