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Products.TinyMCE 1.3 status update

Products.TinyMCE 1.3 is not ready to be released, but we are advancing: PLIP was submitted by Tom Gross (kudos!) to include Products.TinyMCE 1.3 into Plone 4.3 release. Upcoming Friday (18th of May), Plone tuneup will be focused on fixing TinyMCE bugs and cleaning up the bug tracker. I will attend tuneup and will focus on answering questions regarding Products.TinyMCE. Join #plone-tuneup on irc.freenode.net to participate! Second week of July 2012, another awesome Plone sprint will happen. This year we are traveling to Belgium to do some proper beer driven development. My focus will be Products.TinyMCE and GSOC2012 Pylons Organization work on Substance D. Cheers, Domen

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AutoVPN: auto connect VPN if network is active and reconnect if VPN connection drops

After unsuccessful try on reddit.com, someone pointed me to a Python script that almost did what I wanted. Changed it a bit (works only with NetworkManager 0.9.x branch) and got: https://gist.github.com/1547663 Usage First parameter to script is VPN connection name in NetworkManager and second are comma separated names of networks that should be ignored (using VPN connection at home is useless). clone gist somewhere (eg. git clone git://gist.github.com/1547663.git /home/user/autovpn/) add to /etc/rc.local: python /home/user/autovpn/autovpn.py "myvpn" 'Auto homenetwork,Auto worknetwork' > /var/log/autovpn.log& reboot :-)

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Export content from Chromium History

Since http://ietherpad.com is down and I was notified all data was lost, this ruined my day, since I was already planning for past few weeks to write a script that would do daily backups. There is bright future however. I am migrating to http://titanpad.com, wrote backup script in advance, and also managed to get some data from chrome cache. Here are the steps: on linux, figure out which history Index are you interested in: grep -R ietherpad ~/.chromium/Default/* open it: sqlite3 ~/.chromium/Default/HistoryIndex2011-11 find your page and retrieve data: select * from pages_content where c0url like %ietherpad%

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Products.TinyMCE 1.3 beta 1 release

Installation add http://static.domenkozar.com to your find-links pin version to Products.TinyMCE-1.3-beta1 run upgrade step in portal_setup report issues ;-) Changelog Detailed changelog is long, (if you are interested) read following. Deliverables tinymce version upgrade 3.2.7 (2009) to 3.4.3 (2011) IE9 support (implicitly fixed by previous line) Dexterity support Plone 3 and 4 compatible rewritten Image and Link plugins (now named as plonebrowser) with jQuery configurable shortcuts in browser plugin GS migration JavaScript compressor KSS is gone tested on opera/chrome/firefox/IE7/IE8/IE9 split tinymce project to a fork of github.com/tinymce/tinymce/ Known issues editing existing link on image does not recognize current link few IE7 design glitches If this work is helpful to you, please contribute to my trip to PloneConf2011

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GSOC #3: TinyMCE improvements for Plone

Wow, a lot has happened since my last blog post. Highlight of the July being the Sauna Sprint 2011! Tom Gross worked on improving TinyMCE integration with JQuery plugin, javascript combiner and compressor. Now plain Plone 4 production site has 1/3 less requests in edit mode. Kai Lautaportti refactored ploneimage.js from stratch with JQuery, no globals, documentation and jslint. Roel Bruggink was really helpful with improving user stories and overall experience. Also thanks to Peter Čuhalev for work on amazing redesign of image/link browser dialogs. His work was kindly sponsored by Hexagon IT, you guys rock! If you do like his contribution, it's best to offer him more proper open source craziness.

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