and stores the results in prof.data.
profile viewer, which displays the results visually:
The square map display of RunSnakeRun, with the 'render_restructured_text' function highlighted.
Who knew that ReStructuredText rendering could be such a time waster? A short caching decorator and the test suite is twice as fast. The whole exercise took me less than an hour. I should've done it sooner.
from the standard library lets you load and display profiler results from the command line (try converts Python profiler data files to a format that the popular profiler visualization tool can understand. It's somewhat less useful now that RunSnakeRun exists. by yours truly has decorators for easily profiling individual functions instead of entire scripts. hook up the profiler as WSGI middleware for easy profiling of web apps. ]]>
My take on this can be summed up as: Zope ain't dead yet! The project has fragmented a bit (Zope 2, Zope Toolkit, Grok, BlueBream, Repoze), but we all share a set of core packages and we want to keep them healthy.
Next meeting is also happening on a Tuesday, at 15:00 UTC on #zope in FreeNode. ]]>
Reed also worked on re-doing the Mongo-based URL shortener he wrote at last year's sprint, this time using the Ming bindings. He is working to have an example which uses none of the packaages, in order to show how BFG can be used in a variety of ways. Chris McDonough and Chris Rossi have been sprinting with the Pylons and TurboGears folks on a package code-named "Marco." Marco moves some of the dispatching logic of BFG down into a package intended to be useful as the basis for a version of Pylons: if it succeeds, Pylons and BFG would become "personality" layers on top of the shared Marco library.
Tres Seaver has been working on a CMS architecture which he has been mulling for a long while now, code-named "Bonzai". The architecture decouples "asset repositories" from the "site layout" applications which consume them, imposing a RESTy service layer between the two.
In reaction to the perhaps overly cute mascots adopted by a certain other nameless framework, the BFG sprint team has adopted the "flying" or "war" pig as a mascot ( ]]>
The Plone4ArtistsCalendar product is used as a nice way of showing events; this looks like a good solution for sites with lots of events. The chapter teaches best practices for using events and collections. You also get some tips about how best to apply security and permissions. Recommended for Esther (Partner), Robin (Marketing/Sales), and perhaps Mirella (Project Manager), mostly because they may be doing content management on some client sites or on our own site.
The add-on product Faculty/Staff Directory can be seen as a departmental website in a box. It uses membrane, remember and relations. It is a versatile product, which could be useful in several occasions. Recommended for Jean-Paul (Partner) and Robin (Marketing/Sales): they should know this product is available; also recommended for the programmers (Mark, Fred, Vincent, me): they should see if this product fits the bill, before making something from scratch. It can also serve as a good example of how to use the membrane and remember products.
The standard product shown in the previous chapter is now extended using archetypes.schemaextender. Recommended for Mark, Fred and Vincent (programmers): look at this to freshen up your knowledge of archetypes.schemaextender (or for your first look at this).
This is a look at the out-of-the-box blogging potential of Plone (which may be enough), and at add-on products. Erik calls these "free as in puppies": they are cute, but you should be aware that they come with responsibilities. All add-on products that you may want to add in your site, should first be tested on a copy of that site, including trying to uninstall it. The QuillsEnabled and Scrawl products are introduced for blogging, including using them in combination if needed. For forums the judgement is clear: use Ploneboard. Recommended for Mark as consultant and Fred as consultant/trainer.
For embedding audio and video, Erik recommends collective.flowplayer as the most flexible and trouble-free solution. Plone4ArtistsVideo is mentioned once for podcasting support, but perhaps Plone4ArtistsAudio is meant, as that one is explained. In some cases, for example embedding YouTube videos, you need to write some pure html yourself, so enabling the tags is explained; I did not notice before that there was an embed-tab button that you can enable in Site Setup, Visual Editor, Toolbar. Again recommended for Mark as consultant and Fred as trainer.
. Recommended for Esther (Partner), Robin (Marketing/Sales), Mark (Consultant), Fred (Trainer). This was a handy chapter for me as well; I just
This chapter explains the Zope 2 way versus the Zope 3 way of theming. Depending on which parts of your site you want to style, you will need to learn both ways. You will learn about through-the-web versus development on the file system. You use paster for creating a basic theme product. Erik shows as the easiest way of overriding templates from Plone's sometimes difficult viewlet and portlet machinery. Recommended for Mirella and Laurens (CSS Specialists) for perhaps a better understanding of
This is all about buildout, a zeo setup, CacheFu, Squid and Apache. Recommended for the programmers when dealing with Squid instead of the varnish that we mostly use; and a fresh look at the CacheFu settings would not hurt.
The instructions to pack manually give wrong directions, which will have you end up in the ZMI in the Plone Site root, without a Zope Control Panel in sight. Instead you should simply go to Site Setup and then to Maintenance. Other than that, this chapter has no surprises, but if you come working for us as this is the first chapter you should read.
Plone 3 for Education is a very practical book. It shows you a safe route through Plone land, giving solid advice that will keep you out of the pitfalls of this great CMS. Disclaimer: I got this book for free from Packt Publishing in exchange for a review. Ordering the book via one of the in this article will land me some money. ]]>