Microsoft and IE are insane.  Yes, we all knew this, but here’s the proof:  IE won’t accept more than 30 style sheets to be loaded via <style> tags within a single page.  Insanity?  Yes.  It’s made even worse by the fact they openly admit this lunacy!  See the relevant support article from MS as proof. (more…)

Apache does something interesting (yes, I still think it’s logical) when you’re accessing a directory that it’s serving: if you access it without a trailing slash, it’ll add one by default. This makes sense if you’re going after some static content or a folder index (or pretty much any sane usage) but it didn’t fit my use case of serving Plone using rewrite rules in a .htaccess file. (more…)

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…)

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…)

Yay, the new version of Ubuntu is out.  With it comes plenty of cool new features (how awesome does the start up and login screen look now?) and also plenty of opportunities for things to break when I’ve become so accustomed to having them working.  At least it’s not Windows though — I think I may just gnaw my own limbs off before I have to get forced to upgrade to Windows 7 for gaming reasons. (more…)