Where I'm calling from

A blog by Roché Compaan about Zope, Plone, Open Source, freedom, life.

Finding fat free alternatives for upfront.diet
by Roché Compaan — on Jan 12, 2010

A list of Plone catalog dependencies and alternative implementations that don't rely on the catalog.

The Upfront Diet for Plone
by Roché Compaan — on Dec 14, 2009

It's time to put Plone on a diet that works. Loose weight now, ask me how!

Reconsidering Pair Programming
by Roché Compaan — on Dec 04, 2009

We gave pair programming a fair chance but I'm afraid it didn't work out.

Progress bar for Plone
by Roché Compaan — on Sep 18, 2009 —

• Open Source
• Plone
• Zope

Don't let long running jobs time out, just wire in collective.progressbar.

Simple References
by Roché Compaan — on Sep 12, 2009 —

• Plone
• Zope

Simple references can speed up your Plone application significantly.

Pair Programming
by Roché Compaan — on Apr 02, 2009 —

• Business
• General

How do you take the fun you have at Zope and Plone sprints and make it a way of life.

The customer is not king
by Roché Compaan — on Feb 12, 2009 —

• Business
• General

"The customer is king" is one of those sayings that encourages the worst customer-supplier relationships. It's rubbish.

Fat doesn't matter
by Roché Compaan — on Nov 09, 2008 —

• Open Source
• Plone
• ZODB

Big transactions sizes caused by indexing doesn't really matter.

Big Fat Catalog Indexes
by Roché Compaan — on Sep 23, 2008 —

• Open Source
• Plone
• ZODB

Some benchmarks that show how abnormally big Zope's catalog indexes are in relation to the data that is indexed.

Project Management Checklist
by Roché Compaan — on Mar 05, 2008 —

• Business
• General

Checklist to keep your projects on track.

ZODB Benchmarks revisited
by Roché Compaan — on Mar 04, 2008 —

• General
• Open Source
• ZODB

The truth is that the ZODB is faster than your RDBMS.

ZODB Benchmarks
by Roché Compaan — on Feb 01, 2008 —

• Open Source
• Plone
• ZODB

There doesn't seem to be any ZODB benchmarks readily available. Compelled by a project that needs to scale to very high numbers I started compiling some.

Portlet love
by Roché Compaan — on Nov 12, 2007 —

• Plone

"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief" - Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1603

Portlet insanity in Plone 3
by Roché Compaan — on Nov 09, 2007 —

• Plone

Something that used to be a single template is now an interface, at least 3 view classes, an unnecessary complex zcml directive, a generic setup profile and more zcml to register the profile. Serenity now!

Inspired by another great Plone Conference in Naples
by Roché Compaan — on Oct 31, 2007 —

• Open Source
• Plone

This year, I was looking forward to only travel 10 hours to the conference in Italy. Last year it took me a whole 20 hours to get Seattle. And you know what, I'll travel 40 hours if it means I can experience the magic that a Plone conference delivers. What impressed me most about this year's conference was the level of self-reflection the community had about how we got to where we are and what the current state of Plone is.