Matouš Hora - Personal blog
Matous Hora's personal blog about plone, django, zope, grok and python. Known as mhora
Blob file unicode problem
Blob file expects the filename to be stored as a string. When downloading it forces decoding which fails if already in unicode
Android app - horovi.com in a phone
The galleries overview
A year ago I have tried to develop apps for iPhones but I was patient enough to learn Objective C. Recently I've thought I might give a try to Android developing and simple access to gallery app ...
Accessing file fields using iw.fss
A iw.fss package is brilliant and move files out of the ZODB. However trying to use it with z3c.form is a bit tricky.
Ploneboard vs exclude from navigation
I have just come across a problem when Ploneboard objects weren't showing in navigation portlet. The reason was that it inherits its parent's setting of 'exclude from nav' and the parent folder was ...
Change to mhora.net
mhora is my nick I use at various places (irc, usernames) so I have decided to change to mhora.net.
How to update permission upon workflow change
Sometimes you need to change workflow in Plone but there are too many objects to run "Update Security Settings". However you can update only those objects that were affected.
Session vs request variables problem
Do not store request variables (such as request.form) directly in a session. I'm not sure why, but it seems that the object gets garbage collected after a while, no matter that there is a reference ...
collective.portlet.filtersearch
Filter search portlet
The fancy additional filter of current plone search results. Add the portlet to you search template, define your criteria which should show up and you can easily find anything. The portlet can group ...
Fighting the navigation portlet
The navigation portlet within Plone is very sofisticated and allows you to customize it a lot. But it can happen that it's not enough. Let have a look at one ugly patch.
archetypes.multifile 1.3
New release of archetypes.multifile has been put on pypi. Fixes problem when adding multiple files from within a newly created object.