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Build your own remember-based content with sampleremember Plone product
Back in March, Andrew Burkhalter and I wrote a tutorial for creating new content-types based on remember, and as part of that created the sampleremember Plone product. Since then, I've had a couple of...
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Captchas: A spam prevention feature for your Plone forms
Spam leaves no stone unturned. How does one protect those Plone web forms that are open for anonymous web users to spam, such as the Plone contact form?I found a straight-forward and effective solution...
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Web Collective featured in Sustainable Industries Journal
In one fell swoop, Eric Magnuson's interview in SIJ's Five under 35 article highlights the recent formation of our company Web Collective Inc -- as well as connections around worker-owned cooperatives,...
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Collaborative GTD for Python and Plone
A roundtrip flight from Seattle to the East Coast is all you need to start your next Python pet project. (Remember to take some vacation in between though!)I used this time to start development on a...
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The CollectiveGTD Project (and sprints in Naples)
Encouraged by excellent suggestions from the Plone community, Derek and I checked out some of the open-source products including pyGTD, Chandler, and Plone Extreme Management. And combined with the...
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Safe travels to Naples!
I wanted to wish Plonistas a safe journey to Naples for what will be another fantastic Plone conference!Back in Seattle, we're looking forward to hearing post-conference highlights at our upcoming...
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What is Collective MetaNav?
To help illustrate MetaNav, I've created two screencasts:MetaNav Overview screencast (direct link to full-size version)Plone Walk-through of MetaNav screencast (direct link to full-size...
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What about Django for Seattle Startup Weekend?
We've picked our company product, and have 2 days to finish it during Startup Weekend.The dev team inventoried its skills and discovered the expected diversity of platforms, skills and languages for...
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New Company in a Weekend: A Skillbit.com Developer Wrap-up
What does the process look like when 80+ people get together in a weekend with the goal of building a new company and a product?Here's a quick overview of:how the development process workedthe platform...
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Plone, Zope3 and Django Love Fest
Justin James and I presented our talk "Plone and Django: Comparing Tools for Python Web Developers" at Seattle Plone last night to an enthused audience.Most were familiar with just one platform or the...
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CollectiveGTD for Plone: Beta Release (and screencast)
I've just released the beta of CollectiveGTD, and have included a screencast to provide an overview of current functionality.This beta release of CollectiveGTD for Plone 3.0 includes new features such...
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Inline Editing of Multi-row Data in Plone with KSS
Here is how I added inline editing for multiple rows of data to my CollectiveGTD Plone 3.0 product using KSS.This was challenging in that it was my first KSS project, plus most of the KSS editing...
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Mixing Cooperative Business and Open Source
Cooperative Businesses are relatively new in the consulting and services field, as compared with more well known producer coops.We've spent the last two years forming and running a Cooperative...
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CollectiveGTD for Plone 3.1 (Beta 2 Released)
This is a Plone product that implements an Open Source version of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.New in this release: This version fixes all known unicode issues, so that non-ascii...
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Enjoying the DjangoCon2008 Keynote Videos
Scale and Performance - Being AwesomeAfter Web Collective just finished a Django website that needed to scale to 12,000 simultaneous peak users, Flickr architect Cal Henderson's keynote was timely and...
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Agility was one of the themes of Plone Conference 2008
A recurring conference theme for me centered around agility. Plone has benefited by moving from Zope2 to the more flexible Zope3 Component Architecture. Zope technologies are being made available as...
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Effortless Email Management with GTD and Remember the Milk
If you're using Gmail, and want to manage it using GTD, I found a great solution.I'm now using Remember the Milk as my primary GTD tool with the Firefox extension for Gmail. The extension lets you see...
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Taming Twitter and RSS in 2009
As I gleam more information through blogs and microblogs there comes a time when the fun wears off and overload sets in.In 2009, I've decided to tame overload and reinstate fun with some simple...
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Finding Energy in the Mix of Art and Physical Computing
Santa brought me an Arduino this year - an open-hardware and open-software platform for connecting computers to the physical world -- used by artists, designers, geeks, entrepreneurs who often find...
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Packed House at Northwest Python Day 2009
I enjoyed hanging with the local Python crowd yesterday in Seattle for Northwest Python Day 2009.As usual, Python is popular in many realms.Who attended?We started with quick introductions - a nice mix...
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Social and Economic Justice, The Interra Project, Center for Ethical...
Congratulations to **Jon Ramer from The Interra Project, and Mark Okazaki from Neighborhood House **for winning this year's Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Award awards from the Center for Ethical...
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PyCon2009 Tutorial Recap: Real World Django / Optimizations in Python
I primed the pump on the flight to PyCon by catching up on my reading. "Expert Python Programming" (Tarek Ziade) reminded me that I wanted to play with ipython shell and virtualenv (just learned today...
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Django Seattle's Website Barn Raising Sprint: A Recap
New Django Seattle WebsiteThanks to 14 Sprinters who came together on July 25, we now have a Django Seattle Website at http://www.djangoseattle.orgThere was a lot of infrastructure work done at the...
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Extra life for my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and inexpensive hardware
I'm using the Snow Leopard upgrade as a chance to add some extra life to my (older) MacBook Pro (2,2).My goals:Max out memory to 3GB (up from 2 GB) -- $29Upgrade hard-drive to 500GB (up from 120GB) -...
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Snow Leopard Smooth Except Python 32/64 Cocktail
UPDATE: Thanks to the helpful commenters, I found success getting an older Zope instance running on Python 2.4 on Snow Leopard using buildout.NOTE: This post is for installing Python 2.4 on a brand new...
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DjangoCon 2009 Recap
After catching the great videos from last year's first DjangoCon I looked forward to attending this year. I'm glad I went.We'll be discussing "What did we learn at DjangoCon?" at this Thursday's Django...
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Open Tagging on OSX: A Powerful Way to Organize
For each project I work on, I have a multitude of files, folders, applications, and web pages.My goal is to have shortcuts in one place, organized by project, as the ultimate launcher.Here were some...
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SURF iPhone and Android Incubator: Upcoming events and a strong initial Meetup
There was a nice turnout of around 40 people at the SURF Incubator on Wednesday Jan 13th.There were really three events being held at the same time:SURF Open HouseSURF iPhone Coding Night Meetupand a...
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TAF Academy's Final Projects in JavaScript
Alex Tokar, Yonas Seifu and Brian Gershon went down to check out the final projects at Technology Access Foundation's Academy class in Federal Way.This was the first class there to teach JavaScript,...
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TAF's TechStart Expo 2010
Brian Gershon headed down to White Center to see the final event of the season for TAF's TechStart program."TechStart is TAF's free, yearlong after-school program for students in kindergarten through...
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Highlights from DjangoCon 2010 (and videos to watch)
Here were some DjangoCon 2010 highlights for me, along with talk titles so you can find the full presentations online at http://djangocon.blip.tv/posts?view=archive"Creating better apps"Both Eric...
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Sharpening the Mobile and JavaScript Swords
In the last couple of years, JavaScript has really become hot for the next breed of web and mobile applications.JavaScript runs on a majority of mobile and desktop browsers.... it runs on the...
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Moved to Octopress
I'm excited to announce I finally made the plunge to Octopress for my JavaScript and iOS developer blog.I'll be migrating content off my previous Wordpress blog over time.
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Thanks NotConf for a Great JSConf 2012 Pre-conference
Arriving PHX was flawless, the Twilio-sponsored shuttle was there to pick me up from the airport.After checking-in, it was sunny and mid-70s as a few of us awaited for a friendly volunteer-sponsored...
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JSConf 2012: Play
On my flight to JSConf, the Southwest Airlines magazine kicked off the topic of Play in Its called PlayThis theme continued throughout JSConf 2012's Day One.Just a few things to play with:Registration...
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With Great JavaScript Comes Great Inspiration
I'd say the theme of Day Two at JSConf 2012 was inspiration, and was another great day of talks:I think my favorite talk (best presentation, very pragmatic) was Jake Archibald's "Application Cache" --...
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iOS Automated Testing: Refactored
My mobile projects lately include various combinations of JavaScript and Objective-C. Usually either 100% native iOS, or JavaScript running on a native iOS (or Android) layer.I also like to dabble with...
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Favorite Monday Talks at 360iDev 2012
My favorite talks are the developer-heavy ones. Here were three I enjoyed today.Advanced Debugging Code (on Sunday) By Kendall Helmstetter Gelner, @kendalldevdiary, Slides (pdf) and Sample Project...
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Favorite Tuesday Talks at 360iDev 2012
Here were four talks I enjoyed, plus Game Jam.Poking a Hole in the Sandbox, using URLs on iOS By Greg Pierce, @agiletortoise, SlidesLightweight local messaging between apps.A way to test if...
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Testing JavaScript Code Running Google Closure Library using Mocha and...
Here are several options for setting up JavaScript unit testing for code built with the Google Closure Library, albeit these options are helpful for testing a wide variety of JavaScript projects.Google...
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One Letter Repository Status for Git, Mercurial and Subversion
These days we're using a variety of version control systems and switching between them regularly.My most used command is checking my working directory status, so I've distilled it down to a one-letter...
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Testing Parse.com Cloud Code using Q Promises
I've been playing with Parse.com Cloud Code, and wanted to write more code offline so I didn't have to keep pushing to the cloud, plus wanted to use Test Driven Development.I also had seen their blog...
View ArticleI'm featured in Sustainable Industries Journal
I am pleasantly surprised to learn that Sustainable Industries Journal's September issue has a feature story on 5 entrepreneurs under 35 including me and Web Collective. This qualifies as our first...
View ArticleGreen October
Many wise people advancing many great ideas are pooling their resources and giving us something called Green October. It's not just a month, it's also a collection of events having a connection to...
View ArticleMy first Green Business Conference
Here I am pressing the flesh with greenie business people at Co-Op America's Green Business Conference in San Francisco. This is the first time Web Collective has sent a representative out into the...
View ArticleWhat is a Kitten Money Klatch?
This is a fair question. For one, it's something my wife Sarah and I invented. It's also a new form of financial exploration and empowerment for a community of interested individuals in Seattle....
View ArticleTop 6 Productivity Applications for 2008
At the end of the year I get to thinking about all the fine applications that helped me get where I am today... December 28th. Now, I don't spend a ton of time researching, testing and thinking about...
View ArticleIdealware compares Drupal, Plone, Wordpress and Joomla
Nonprofit software info source Idealware has published what might be the best objective review of the top open source CMS solutions available today. Having read the report and having worked extensively...
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Bitesize Blogging via Node.js
Over the last couple of weeks, I rebuilt my blog so that I could:keep my content in a repository all by itself, in a simple markdown format.support a responsive design based on a popular framework...
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CascadiaJS 2014
CascadiaJS 2014 kicked off today in Portland.Everything ran smoothly, even in 89 degree weather!Videos are starting to become available on YouTube with new ones being announced on...
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