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Alexander Limi
…on user interface design, content management, Plone and life at Google.
Simplify Plone’s Editing Experience
Part 1: Simplifying Plone’s content authoring experience for end-users. We’re bringing sexy back.
Simplifying Plone
With Plone 3.1 in the Release Candidate stage, and with the continued work on the 3.x line, it’s time to look ahead and see what we can do to make the Plone experience even better for the next major releases.
Thank you, Plone Community!
It’s been a great eight years, here’s to the next eight.
18 Things I Wish Were True About Plone
In the interest of furthering discussion about the future of Plone, here are some of my personal opinions on things that I’d like to see applied to Plone — both the process and the software.
Fixing OS X Leopard’s translucent menu bar
For people using Leopard, one of the few things that make people unhappy seems to be the translucent menu bar. Here's how to revert it to the standard white menu bar without using third-party apps or hacks.
Plone Conference 2007 Keynote
The hi-res slides from the Plone Conference 2007 keynote are available, including speaker notes.
Leopard Observations
I have been running the new release of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” for a while — ever since I was given access to the betas. What's the impression after using it as my main operating system for a while?
Quick link: Google Experimental Search
Wish you could use Google without having to reach for the mouse? See results on a timeline or a map? There's some cool stuff available that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere.
Foreword to Professional Plone Development
Martin's excellent book on Plone development is shipping, and you can read my foreword for his book — a mini-history of Plone as seen from my personal perspective — here.
Oracle is the 404 company
It's the weekend again, so excuse my little dig at Your Friendly Multibillion-Dollar Neighborhood Company. I just thought this was too funny not to share. Or maybe I just need to get out more.
Behind the scenes of the Plone 3 launch
Several things about the Plone 3 launch were interesting, but weren't necessarily suitable for the main release announcement. For those of you interested in the fascinating details, I'll cover some of them here.
ArchGenXML now produces Plone 3 code
ArchGenXML is a tool that can turn UML diagrams into Plone add-on modules, and yesterday it was updated to produce Plone 3 compliant code.
Drive-by…compliments?
Upon returning to the Plonemobile a couple of days ago here in San Francisco, I found a note under the windshield wiper.
Akamai runs Plone
It's all a big party — several high-profile sites have revealed that they run Plone over the past week, and now we can add Akamai to that list.
Novell.com switches to Plone
The public-facing web pages of Novell are now produced using Plone.
Some preliminary Plone 3.0 benchmark results
Since we have focused a lot on performance in the upcoming Plone 3.0 release, I ran some basic — and totally unscientific — benchmarks versus Plone 2.5. Here are the results.
Go Documentation Sprinters!
The problem on plone.org is a luxury indeed: we have too much documentation, so things end up being hard to navigate for anybody new to Plone. This is about to receive a major upgrade in terms of findability.
Welcome to Google, Geoff Davis!
One of my goals at Google has been to recruit the people that I think are a good match for the culture here — and today the first of those recruiting goals became a reality: Plone luminary and all-around-excellent dude Geoff Davis accepted an offer to work with us as a User Experience Researcher.
…and another thing: Safari for Windows is available
Apple's WWDC keynote just ended, and cross-platform browser testing just got easier for those stuck on Windows: Safari is now available for Windows.
