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Monthly Archive for January, 2009

TinyMCE for Plone: A quick review

I’m very excited about Products.TinyMCE, the new add-on product for Plone by Rob Gietema of Four Digits that integrates TinyMCE, the popular open-source graphical HTML, into Plone. Background: Since Plone 2.1, released in 2006, Plone has shipped with an excellent graphical HTML editor called Kupu.  Kupu was a mature, capable product long before TinyMCE was [...]

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links for 2009-01-27

American Carbon Registry (tags: environment plone-site web-collective)

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links for 2009-01-24

TimeDriver – A revolutionary online personal appointment scheduler (tags: project-management calendar scheduling)

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links for 2009-01-22

Is ad-supported journalism viable in a pay-for-performance age? very interesting analysis from Ethan Zuckerman (tags: journalism)

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My favorite Obama quote

“With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet.” – President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address Wow, he just drew a parallel between climate change and nuclear war.  And you know what, he’s right.  Both are fundamental, existential threats. I’m so [...]

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links for 2009-01-21

Limits of Volunteerism Michael Delli Carpini, a scholar of civic life and the dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, has noted, "Civic engagement has become defined as the one-on-one experience of working in a soup kitchen, clearing trash from a local river or tutoring a child once a week. What is [...]

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ImageEditor 1.0 for Plone is out

Nathan Van Gheem has put out a 1.0 release candidate of ImageEditor, his fantastic image editing add-on product for Plone.  ImageEditor implements a slick, easy-to-use image editor inside of Plone.  ImageEditor lets Plone users quickly and easily resize, crop, sharpen and compress images they’ve uploaded without Photoshop.A short screencast is worth a thousand words of [...]

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links for 2009-01-20

Django 2.0 things that happen when you don't have or enforce your trademarks. ouch. (tags: open-source django trademark)

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It will be very, very interesting to see how Obama’s new “Organizing For America” effort, run through the DNC, plays out. The new group, called Organizing for America, will be a “special project” of the Democratic National Committee, according to Obama transition spokesman Ben LaBolt, and it appears to be the primary vehicle for issue [...]

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links for 2009-01-17

Troubled Technologies: An '09 Watch List social news, microblogging, enterprise social networking, online video — companies will face tough times in 2009, say these pundits (tags: technology predictions 2009)

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links for 2009-01-15

iSpring Converter | Converter PowerPoint to Flash Converter (tags: flash software windows presentations powerpoint)

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links for 2009-01-14

Crucial Web Hosting » Blog » Ecommerce PCI Compliant Hosting great article on PCI compliance for small sites (tags: ecommerce pci) 2009 Northwest Exposure Contest Winners — Washington Trails Association fantastic nature photos from Washington state hikers! (tags: environment onenorthwest photography) Nonprofits' Most Missed Marketing Tool — Email Signatures nice guide to creating an effective [...]

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links for 2009-01-13

R.I.P. Enterprise RSS – ReadWriteWeb big biz hasn't adopted RSS readers much. film at 11. (tags: trends business rss)

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links for 2009-01-12

phpBB • View topic – [RC] Plone Authentication Module interesting… module to authenticate phpBB against Plone users (tags: plone phpbb)

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links for 2009-01-11

AWS Console new web-based console for Amazon Web Services. Sweet. (tags: amazon webhosting)

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links for 2009-01-08

SlideShowPro: The complete photo and video slideshow publishing solution (tags: slideshow)

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The internals of Plone’s user & groups system got massively upgraded in Plone 2.5 with the inclusion of PAS (Plugabble Auth System).  Behind the scenes, we now have an impressively powerful, extremely flexible system for managing the entire authentication system.  It’s a great foundation. But while the foundation is sound, the more external-facing parts of [...]

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links for 2009-01-06

Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism – Center for Citizen Media for onelist? Group uses lawsuits to help clean up Sound possibly worth onelist; it's not everyday our clients are on page A1. (tags: onenw)

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links for 2009-01-05

Nabble – Python – image-sig – Poor Image Quality When Resizing a GIF (tags: python images)

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