Blog de hvelarde Vox 2008-01-19T04:23:16Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398ba6cb30002/ When adapting content types, schemaextender is the way to go (updated) tag:vox.com,2007-12-28:asset-6a00e398ba6cb3000200e398cc53a30003 2008-01-12T02:40:15Z 2008-01-19T04:23:16Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

schemaextender in action

Lightning Talks are among the best investments of time you can make on any Plone Conference: there's always a lot of smart people doing great things. During the Plone Conference 2007, in Naples, Florian Schulze spoke about schemaxtender, a packag...

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]]> Relating content automatically in Plone 100 tag:vox.com,2008-01-03:asset-6a00e398ba6cb3000200e398ce4eed0003 2008-01-03T05:20:49Z 2009-10-06T23:51:12Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A question arose today in the Plone general mailing list (a.k.a. Plone-users): it is possible to create a list of related content automatically? Well, the answer is yes and I'm going to tell you how. Some time ago Benjamin Saller created a proof...

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]]> Mapping NITF into Plone's metadata tag:vox.com,2007-12-28:asset-6a00e398ba6cb3000200e398cc37080001 2007-12-28T03:01:34Z 2007-12-31T16:58:25Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Using a tag cloud for navigation

As I mentioned previously, Plone standard News Items have not enough metadata for using them seriously in a newspaper publication. When we started using Plone for our breaking news site, we tried to fill the gap using some fancy Web 2.0 features ...

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]]> Plone development in La Jornada. A little bit of history tag:vox.com,2007-12-22:asset-6a00e398ba6cb3000200e398ca84cf0004 2007-12-22T00:26:12Z 2007-12-22T05:25:42Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

La Jornada in 1996 Traffic growth in La Jornada

Back in 1995, La Jornada was the first newspaper on Spanish language to have a web site. Over the years, the site evolved from static HTML files, written entirely by hand, to use some dynamic content creation in PHP, but the work involved on maint...

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]]> Beyond News Items: the need for news industry standards in Plone tag:vox.com,2007-12-19:asset-6a00e398ba6cb3000200e398c9a7830005 2007-12-19T01:37:53Z 2007-12-22T01:26:18Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom News articles in Plone are instances of the News Item content type: they can contain a title, a description, a body text, an image and some basic metadata. If you publish a couple of items from time to time, this is fine. But suppose you have to ...

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]]> ZODB performance: a small change can make a big difference tag:vox.com,2007-12-08:asset-6a00e398ba6cb3000200e398c59caa0005 2007-12-06T02:24:38Z 2009-08-21T14:53:39Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Processor load chart

Tunning Zope's ZODB performance can be a big challenge. Almost everything you can find on the web about it can be resumed on the following: use the Edisonian approach: trial and error discovery. At La Jornada we are using ZEO to serve about 500,0...

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]]> Implementing a photo gallery viewlet for CompositePack using jQuery tag:vox.com,2007-12-04:asset-6a00e398ba6cb3000200e398c41af80004 2007-12-04T03:53:23Z 2007-12-22T01:27:14Z hvelarde http://hvelarde.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The photo gallery viewlet

CompositePack is a beautiful piece of code written by Godefroid Chapelle. We use CompositePack at La Jornada to create the frontpage for the breaking news edition. Some time ago I was asked to create a viewlet for a photo gallery and we started t...

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