My random musings

Changing access point configuration from WEP to WPA gotcha by hedley — on Apr 02, 2010: I just wasted 6 hours of my life fixing something that I apparently broke. Hopefully Google picks this up and I can help other unfortunate souls.
Dexterity in my labority by hedley — on Dec 28, 2009: Dexterity is a next-generation content type framework for Plone. By day I'm an Archetypes man but by night I delve into Dexterity. These are a few not-so-first impressions.
Using form widgets anywhere by hedley — on Oct 03, 2009: z3c.form and a few other products provide nice widgets for use with schema driven forms. This post shows how to use such a standalone contextless widget in a template.
Fetching objects in a folder optimally by hedley — on Sep 08, 2009: I find I'm frequently iterating over objects in a folder and this is usually painfully slow for large folders in large object databases. But did you know it is easy to significantly speed up this iteration?
Schema extender for a specific browser layer by hedley — on Jun 22, 2009: archetypes.schemaextender is currently a bit light on documentation so I created this example of a schema extender that extends a schema for only a single browser layer.
Subclassing FolderishMember in ArgoUML by hedley — on May 13, 2009: ArchgenXML cannot generate classes that subclass Remember's FolderishMember. This page shows you how to do it.
From own SVN to collective SVN to Pypi by hedley — on Apr 14, 2009: This describes the procedure to move a product from your own SVN repo to the collective SVN repo. Finally it shows how to publish the egg to pypi.python.org.
Firefox Redirect Loop and plone.app.redirector behaving badly by hedley — on Apr 10, 2009: If you encounter a Firefox Redirect Loop when browsing to an object then plone.app.redirector may be at fault.
Compile and install libxml2 python by hedley — on Oct 01, 2008: libxml2 is a real pain to compile install if you are not using the system Python. This howto shows how to do it.
trml2pdf xml parser error tip by hedley — on Aug 27, 2008: If you encounter "xml parser error (bogus
Python SSL "No module named _ssl2" by hedley — on May 12, 2008: If you compile SSL support for Python from source you may run into the "No module named _ssl2" problem.
An Ordered BTreeFolder by hedley — on Apr 04, 2008: BTreeFolders are lightweight, but wouldn't it be nice to order the items as you see fit?
Logging the response object by hedley — on Nov 06, 2007: Logging the response object to the event logger may have strange side effect in Python Scripts.
Plone skin switching by inspecting the URL by hedley — on Oct 26, 2007: Does your site have one view for the public interface and another for the admin interface? Then you should serve different skins depending on the URL.
Getting rid of default PloneAzax event bindings by hedley — on Oct 23, 2007: PloneAzax by default binds to the View and Edit tabs, and it pops up that progress box. If this annoys you then it is not that hard to disable.