It’s another one of those ‘strange’ problems that has cropped up, but by default in Plone, users who aren’t authenticated aren’t actually able to bring up a pop-up calendar on a date field.

It’s amazing that I haven’t run into this issue before with something like PloneFormGen, where you’d think that a simple Date input field would be pretty common.  Although, I guess it’s the case that even though I’ve used these given forms, I’ve probably never taken much notice of the popup calendar icon and just selected a random date from the drop-down lists.  I suppose entering a random number on they keyboard and hitting tab across the fields 3 times is simpler than going for the mouse.  Who knows. (more…)

Rightio!  So we’ve got Plone 4.0a2 installed and up and running.  Boy, she looks sweet:

Plone's new theme

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Plone 4 is approaching!  Excellent!  Lots of new features to play around with and plenty more things to have to fix with the upgrade.  I’ve been keeping tabs on the change log of updates and it’s looking really good.  Lots of little, but significant, changes are afoot.  Now, how about actually installing the Alpha 2 version of Plone 4 to see it for real?  Let’s do it! (more…)

Today’s problem is one that requires no introduction (well, maybe it does ) but it’s a problem nonetheless.  The issue is that after using the ‘su‘ command to become another user, there’s trouble running screen sessions. (more…)

It’s been a little bit of time since my last post, and who can blame me with my site having been down for almost 2 full days over the last week!  I’m not paying that much for the webspace, thankfully, but if I was, I’d be seeing red over it.  Apparently some patch for MySQL broke everything; imagine how it looked to see my site with a ’500 internal error’ plastered all over it and not being able to access my cPanel.  Ugh.

Anyway, everything’s back again, assuming that you can see this.  Okay?  Great!

Today’s conundrum presented itself very, very strangely.  People couldn’t change their password in Plone (which effectively breaks registration if a user has to select a password).  The Plone site we have was being themed by Deliverance. A colleague and I were taking a look at this earlier in the week and from everything that we could see, the request traffic and variables were being sent onto Plone correctly from Deliverance. That said, the issue persisted. (more…)