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Generate a 3 columns fully CSS based on the «One True Layout» technic.

With the overwhelming response to my earlier Python Is Not Java post, I thought I'd take a little time to be fair and point out that Java Is Not Python, either. While Python is more powerful as a language, Java beats the crap out of it in the area of standards and specifications like JDBC, JNDI, and OSGi, to name just a few.

I was recently looking at the source of a wxPython-based GUI application, about 45.5KLOC in size, not counting the libraries used (e.g. Twisted). The code was written by Java developers who are relatively new to Python, and it suffers from some performance issues (like a 30-second startup time). In examining the code, I found that they had done lots of things that make sense in Java, but which suck terribly in Python. Not because "Python is slower than Java", but because there are easier ways to accomplish the same goals in Python, that wouldn't even be possible in Java.

A few open-source project truisms

Introduction to OOP with Python Object Oriented Programming

photography of Bill Hocker in Tunisia and other parts of the world

Plone Skin Dump (qPloneSkinDump) allows to create Plone product based on some ZMI located skin folder (eg "custom") from portal_skins. So you can easy create Plone product with skin based on folder with customized styles and page templates.

This how-to will teach you how to use CSS for customizing the icon of an object in the navigation tree.

In search of the One True Layout. Well designed CSS based columns layout.

Producing Open Source Software How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

I am teaching myself how to create weblogs, comparing movable type to typepad to blogger to b2evolution, wordpress, blosxom, etc,, figuring out customizing blog templates, domain mapping, blogrolling, etc, and am posting all my findings here.

This document teaches you how to use Five. Its goals are to familiarize you with some Zope 3 idioms and demonstrate how they are applied in a grown Zope 2 environment. It will do so in five steps, thus let you experience the iterative development process that has been acquired by Zope 3 developers and been used in my book as well. It will stop after those five steps, but still leave you with some possibilities to pad out the code with your own components.

How Plone can become a community collaboration software !

CMFFeed is a CMFSin replacement solution, which acts as a RSS reader and aggregator for Plone.

This Quick Start assumes you are familiar with Python, Subversion, and the generalities of the web (HTML, servers, etc.).