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…)

..and how true that is.  Today’s time consumer is directly related to just 1 misplaced line of a buildout configuration (and presumably something that’s changed somewhere else).

The result

After much hunting and hunting, it turns out my Zope2 Fake Eggs weren’t being generated. (more…)

Alright, now for today’s problem:  why do two dates that look different when outputted actually end up being the same date?

Answer: I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure it’s got something to do with the wacky support the above-mentioned 3 products have for timezones.

The background: Plone stores a DateTime object to record a user’s last login time.  It doesn’t really matter what’s purpose is, because Plone (this time) isn’t at fault.  The DateTime gets stored, no worries.  The problem arises when you try to put that value back into a DateTime object.  Now, I’d have thought it’d be as simple as doing this:

dt = DateTime(member.getProperty(‘login_time’))

And realistically, it is.  Except that printing/using that value – at least for me – results in a time that appears as UTC, but is reported as being in my timezone (aka a time that’s 10 hours behind since I’m GMT+10).

The fix: the time still knows its timezone correctly, so just give it a kick.

dt = DateTime(member.getProperty(‘login_time’))
dt = dt.toZone(dt.timezone())

Amazingly, doing a comparison (using cmp) between the original DateTime object and it’s ‘corrected’ version actually shows that they’re the same.  Uhuh.

What a complicated situation it is trying to use all of the above-mentioned pieces of software together. In all seriousness, Virtualenv is now appearing to be the best thing since sliced bread for me to help out with making Plone/Zope usable under Jaunty. (more…)

Eeek…what’s this mean?

install() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘allow_hosts’

after trying to build zope2zeoserver from my buildout configuration. (more…)