Quills Summer of Code starts

Hi all,

(Sorry for cross-post, I'll try not to do this very often.)

I thought I should let you all know that I've started working on Quills
code again; this time supported by Google SoC funds :).

I'm keeping a blog of my progress at <http://quills.sitefusion.co.uk/blog/>.

Tim

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Towards a SimpleBlog 2.0 release

Hi all,
   The last stable release of SimpleBlog was 1.2.1 . I've tested and 
found it fine against 2.5. It also worked with 2.1.x unchanged, although 
originally released for 2.0.x. Some useful changes have been made in svn 
since, that would be good to get out there.
   The author, Danny Bloemandaal, is extremely busy with other things, 
but this is a good product that we ought to actively maintain. There'll 
always be some people that need, rather than bells and whistles, a basic 
blogging plugin with ease of maintenance, less migration headaches etc.
  I've managed to talk Danny into letting me have permissions so I can 
upload releases even if he's too busy. We use blogs here so I can 
justify some time on this.
  Danny has put a beta on plone.org.
  What I advocate is if people have time, please download either the 
beta OR svn, then feedback issues and/or talk on the 
plone.blogging.general newsgroup. When filing issues, please give all 
platform info and the version of SimpleBlog (if svn, the repository 
number), please be precise when describing problems, and also look to 
make sure it doesn't duplicate an existing issue.
   In this way hopefully with a number of people making a tiny effort 
each, we can have a 2.0 final of SimpleBlog soon, and also ensure in 
future there'll be a SimpleBlog release compatible with Plone 3.0.


Cheers
Nick

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PloneBookmarklets 0.5 Release

FYI David Ray completely refactored my initial PloneBookmarklets
product making it a much more Plone'ish.  It's now configured as a
document_action and you can configure what bookmarklets to show on
your Plone blogs via the ZMI.  All thanks go to David for this
release!

Check it out here:

http://plone.org/products/plonebookmarklets

Enjoy!

Shane

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basesyndication: xhtml content

Hi again,

The browser/atom.xml.pt file of basesyndication has this comment:

"This body below should really be xhtml instead of semi-encoded
possibly unescaped strange stuff."

According to
http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#text
you can say the type is xhtml and wrap a div around the text that you
want in there.  Current content tag of an entry:

     <content type="html" xml:base="" xml:lang="en-US" xml:space="preserve"
              tal:attributes="xml:base feed/getBaseURL">
         <tal:block tal:replace="structure string:&lt;![CDATA["/>
         <tal:block tal:replace="structure feedentry/getBody"/>
         <tal:block tal:replace="structure string:]]&gt;"/>
      </content>

The changes would make the content tag look like this:

      <content type="xhtml" xml:base="" xml:lang="en-US" xml:space="preserve"
               tal:attributes="xml:base feed/getBaseURL">
        <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
          <tal:block tal:replace="structure feedentry/getBody"/>
        </div>
      </content>

I'm not sure about that xml base, lang and space, but that's how the
page template currently looks.

Well, this works for me.  Thoughts?

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basesyndication: author of feed item or feed

Hi,

My brother (hi Reinout!) has a Quills blog, which should generate an
atom feed with the help of basesyndication, and when I validate his
atom feed, I see some errors, among them 15 times:

"name should not be blank"

This error is shortly explained in:

http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/NotBlank.html

For starters, where does Quills define the function getAuthor for a
feed item?  I got lost in the code.  On my test blog I do get a name
in there, so it _should_ be there somewhere. :)

For seconds, and that's the basesyndication department, which is why I
am posting here, I thought about putting a

  tal:condition="feedentry/getAuthor|nothing"

or something to that effect in the author tag of an entry, so that
you don't get an empty name.  But if the whole <author> tag for an
entry is empty, then according to the specs on atomenabled.org there
MUST be an <author> tag on the feed.  But such a tag is not there in
basesyndication.

So I wondered if that should be added.  That would also mean adding
getAuthor() to the Feed interface.  Implementation could be: get the
name of the (first) Creator of the weblog; perhaps the username if the
full name is not known.

Adding this function to the interface would mean that products
implementing that interface would need to be changed of course.  Do we
know which products use basesyndication?  At least Quills does.

Is this a good idea?  I think I should be able to do the
basesyndication part.  Quills too, at first glance.

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TagCloud an webalizer

Hi,

after installing tagcloud webalizer shows 50% more visits. And in the  
URLs-section of webalizer I get many entries like this:

foldername/search

When I click on an entry in TagCloud I get URLs like this:

http://www.generationenprojekt.de/search?Subject=1.%20Weltkrieg&review_state=published&submit=Search

So do webalizer cut off everything after the "?" and only logs "search"?

But why do visits increase?

juh

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Blogging with Plone

Disclaimer: The following thoughts are not very elaborated. They are not 
meant to be offensive. They come from a users viewpoint. And English is 
not my first language. I hope they are useful.

I never used blogsoftware and I never was part of one of these 
"blog-communities", but I was writing my weblog since 1998 with all 
kinds of software. Hey does anybody ever used WML? (http://thewml.org/) 
  

Long before blogs were invented, people used to write diaries and they 
used a calendar to identify their content, just as in real world 
diaries. But this was and is arbitrary. We never thought about it. And I 
think all these bloggers around never thought about it too.

Bloggers want to publish their thoughts as easily as possible, they want 
to share it and they want to be linked. Isn't publishing, what Plone 
does? Why do we need blogs at all? Why not extend the core of Plone with 
some tools, bloggers need?

I tried CoreBlog, Quills and EasyBlog. And I must say that - no they do 
not all suck, - but using them I was always asking myself: Why do I have 
to use all these things to just do the same I am doing with Plone? And 
even to just do some things I have done with squishdot? (e.g. keyword 
images). 

Do we really need a new content type to blog? When I am blogging, I want 
to publish text, present my images, audio, video and other files and 
maybe I want to add events. I can do this with Plone.

My readers should be able to add comments. They can do it with Plone.

I want to spread my content with RSS. I can do it with Plone.

I want to tag my content with keywords. Plone can do it.

Bloggers are used to organize their content in year-month-day-folders. 
Blogs do this automatically. But what if I want to organize it my way? I 
cannot do it with blogs. I can do it with Plone. So why not extend Plone 
with a small optional function to automatically create year-month-day 
folders and put new content into them?

Then there are workflows and roles. As long as I blog alone, all current 
Plone blogs work. But when I try to blog with others, problems arise, 
Plone never had. E.g. the community workflow of Plone enables me to let 
people create their content in their homefolders and collect it on the 
front page with smart folders. I could even make smart folders the 
bloggian way: smart folders "year" with subfolders "month" with 
subfolders "day".

Would it make sense to think of Plone itself as a blog, which simply 
misses some small features,  which can be implemented with simple add ons?

What is missing in Plone?
1. An optional feature that automatically creates new content in 
year-month-day folders. (I would even think we can switch it off by 
default.)
2. Automation of creation of smart folders to collect member content in 
year-month-day folders on the front page.
3. The trackback feature
4. Automation of creation of smart folders according to keywords.
5. Some portlets: calendar, tag-cloud etc.
6. ATOM RDF Feeds
7. A more simple way of adding keywords. The way Quills offers is better 
than hide keywords under the property-tab.
8. Full integration of multimedia files to make podcasts and other stuff.

I am sure there are some other features.

There are some other arguments to not use a blog product. E.g. 
migration. It is easier to upgrade a Plone instance without complex 
products.

Or maintenance. Products must be maintained. What if your favorite blog 
product isn't maintained anymore? If you stick to Plone, you must not 
worry about that problem. It is easier to maintain small add-ons  for 
plone (e.g. a tagcloud-portlet alone) than to maintain a whole product. 
So the chance that small usefull add-ons will be maintained is greater.

Reading the mailing lists of Plone blogs I discovered that the 
developers of the different blog products want to cooperate very 
closely. This is great to channel efforts. Did you ever discuss to add 
blog features to Plone without creating a huge new product? Is it 
possible to take code from the different products to achieve this goal?

I think that I, a user trying to build a community-blog, only need some 
enhancements to Plone a realize an easy-to-use multiuser blog.

Cheers
juh

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Technorati Tags

FYI I'm working on a simple product that will allow a site admin to
have Technorati tags on their site.  See
http://liquid.homelinux.org:9674/hapkido/blog/archive/2006/08/23/entry
for a working alpha version of it.

Currently the product installs a Technorati Tagging portlet and a
second 'portal_technorati' template that will allow someone to place a
tag bar under their blog posts (both of which are shown on the site).

I'm open to suggestions on how this looks/works for the blogging
products for Plone.  I can cut a quick release if people would like to
install it on a dev instance.

Thanks,

Shane

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