Alexander Limi
…on user interface design, content management, Plone and life at Google.
Composite Pages, Listings and Content Proxies
Part 3: Making it easy to do advanced page layout tasks in Plone.
Improve Plone’s Handling of Rich Media
Part 2: Making it easy to work with audio, video and other opaque content in the editing interface.
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.