Missing content menus in Plone

Another dose of insanity please!  Coming right up, sir.

Today’s second discussion comes from an issue I was having recently with a new Plone site that I was hosting behind Apache and Deliverance.  No Varnish here yet, because I’d rather the site worked first before I try and cache the life out of it.

Now, the specific problem I was having was that the content menus in Plone (eg Add New, Display, State, Actions and for me, Sub-types) weren’t displaying.  I thought it a Deliverance issue - maybe I was dropping those content items accidentally or not including …

in Plone · Wed 30 September 2009

Deliver me from … Deliverance?

Always one for being on and beyond the bleeding edge of new technology, I’ve (with the help of colleagues) been setting up a new technology for applying themes to web sites.  In particular, I’m applying Deliverance to Plone and whilst I’m not the first one to venture out into the wilderness this way, I’ve got to be thinking that I could be one of the few people documenting their experience.  Ah, but where to begin?

in Themes · Wed 02 September 2009

Rewrite Rules Made Easy

I’ve pretty much got a nice handle on Rewrite rules for Apache. Once you’ve seen a few of them, it’s straight forward enough to replicate for new Plone sites and so forth.

However, to make things even easier on my brain I’ve found this: http://betabug.ch/zope/witch , the Rewrite Rule Witch. Seems like the rules it produces are what I’d expect, which makes me ponder why, if I know they’re right, would I bother.

Reason: easy confirmation and less chance of typos.

in Plone · Thu 08 January 2009