jccooper blog
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-06-16 13:58.
HTML5 has some audio/video elements, only now supported in a Mozilla 3.5 beta, that will map well to the new CNXML 0.6 elements.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-05-29 11:13.
A new Report-A-Bug spam pattern has arisen, and I've closed it off.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-04-30 10:17.
Among a listing of the web's top Plone sites, we're there.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-03-30 10:24.
We've removed CVS from Rhaptos, now we need to remove CVS from rhaptos.org.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-03-26 17:17.
We needed a whole workgroup worth of modules roles corrected; here's what I did.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-02-26 10:34.
We've started to get a new class of Trac bugs, and I've put in a fix to stop them.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-02-26 10:15.
I usually keep a devset checkout somewhere and link the Products there into my instance (and you should too, if you do that sort of thing.) That's an annoying manual task, and now we have a script that can help.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-02-25 11:55.
We need doc strings for most of our scripts.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-02-20 00:00.
If you're like me, Unicode and its handling in Python is a bit of a black art. But I have found a grimoire that might make some sense of it.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-02-19 12:33.
I'm doing some downstream merging now with svnmerge. It's not so hard, generally, so I'll describe it for the benefit of everyone who is not me and who might want to do the same.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-02-10 13:04.
Modern web browsers have a search bar that lets you search sites directly. You may have seen this with Amazon and Wikipedia. You can do it with Connexions, too.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-02-04 16:25.
Want to know the deal with Chrome? See the comic they produced. It's fun.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2009-01-05 15:55.
Author link usage statistics, with an eye towards changing the scale.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2008-09-10 17:23.
The new version of SVN is out, and it has (finally) built-in merge tracking. And it's better than svnmerge.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2008-01-03 16:04.
Copies instances will in some places still refer to cnx.org, making them hard to use. I usually just ignore it, but if it becomes cumbersome, you can fix it.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2008-01-02 12:19.
Rice IT also runs a general-purpose SVN service.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2008-01-02 12:08.
Rice provides a backup space for everybody, and we should probably use it. It's not too hard...
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2007-10-18 15:46.
The default state for content on rhaptos.org is now 'published'.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2007-08-17 18:11.
Nice plone.org howto regarding common Plone programming idioms.
Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2007-08-15 17:10.
The browse system's alphabetical selection for authors, etc, works okay for us, since we have enough data, but it works poorly for bare Rhaptos installs, and is already starting to be a problem for some of the more popular letters.
