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Martin Aspeli

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A blog and personal website

Also known as optilude, Martin is a prolific contributor to Plone, an open source content management system, about which he has written a book. During the day, he works for Big Four consultancy firm in London and in the evening he plays guitars and writes music.

Grok (and martian) rocks

by Martin Aspeli — Jul 02, 2008 10:57 AM

Even if you're writing Plone code

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Dexterity

by Martin Aspeli — Jun 30, 2008 08:21 PM

A short example

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Mock testing with mocker and plone.mocktestcase

by Martin Aspeli — Jun 27, 2008 06:11 PM

You must be having a laugh

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Eclipse, PyDev, Omelette and buildout

by Martin Aspeli — May 15, 2008 11:01 PM

Bring on the code completion

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Kupu works in Safari

by Martin Aspeli — May 07, 2008 06:53 PM

Perhaps I've been living under a rock

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Update - Repoze under mod_wsgi is not slow

by Martin Aspeli — May 07, 2008 02:09 AM

It helps to know what you're doing!

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Rolling out Repoze

by Martin Aspeli — May 23, 2008 02:14 PM

Back to the future

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A new server

by Martin Aspeli — May 01, 2008 01:22 AM

If you can view this, it's working :-)

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Riding the Mule

by Martin Aspeli — Apr 13, 2008 06:02 PM

... and now for something complete different

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You've got break a few eggs

by Martin Aspeli — Mar 16, 2008 11:56 PM

... to easily grep your packages

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You used Python to write WHAT?

by Martin Aspeli — Feb 19, 2008 09:39 PM

Yes, you certainly did!

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DNS SPOF

by Martin Aspeli — Feb 18, 2008 11:40 PM

If the internet seems dead, it may just be your DNS

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Plone Strategic Planning Summit Debrief

by Martin Aspeli — Feb 11, 2008 03:19 AM

Man, I'm tired

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What is Plone?

by Martin Aspeli — Feb 07, 2008 08:45 AM

The meta is hurting my head!

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Is Plone too hard?

by Martin Aspeli — Feb 04, 2008 02:39 AM

It depends...

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Pete and Andy try Plone 4

by Martin Aspeli — Feb 02, 2008 09:27 PM

A tale from the future of Plone

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Support the Plone Strategic Planning Summit

by Martin Aspeli — Jan 15, 2008 11:55 PM

A little donation goes a long way!

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Professional Plone Development - now an e-Book

by Martin Aspeli — Jan 03, 2008 10:53 AM

Packt Publishing release a PDF e-book version of Professional Plone Development

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Initial sales figures for `Professional Plone Development`

Initial sales figures for `Professional Plone Development`

by Martin Aspeli — Dec 10, 2007 10:44 PM

Pretty good news, I'd say :-)

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Dichotomise

by Martin Aspeli — Dec 10, 2007 03:09 AM

Old song, new demo recording

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Google Highly Open Participation Contest

by Martin Aspeli — Dec 01, 2007 10:51 PM

Plone is one of the projects selected to take part in the Google Highly Opened Participation Context.

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Google loves Plone

by Martin Aspeli — Dec 01, 2007 04:53 PM

The proof!

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A Java Component Architecture

by Martin Aspeli — Nov 28, 2007 02:35 AM

Does such a thing exist?

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Portlet sanity

by Martin Aspeli — Nov 10, 2007 12:54 AM

A few things you may not know about portlets in Plone 3

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iConcertCal

by Martin Aspeli — Nov 09, 2007 02:15 AM

Wishes do come true!

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Read this

by Martin Aspeli — Nov 08, 2007 02:25 AM

Repoze explained

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Slashdotted!

by Martin Aspeli — Nov 07, 2007 07:36 PM

Professional Plone Development hits the front page of slashdot. :)

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Too much speed at the Performance Sprint

Too much speed at the Performance Sprint

by Martin Aspeli — Nov 05, 2007 12:43 AM

Back with a sore back but a faster Plone

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This site now uses OpenID

by admin — Oct 27, 2007 12:19 AM

If you want to comment... be a URL

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Repoze rocks

by Martin Aspeli — Oct 26, 2007 10:33 PM

This is what the future looks like

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Target reached - in four hours!

by Martin Aspeli — Oct 24, 2007 12:15 AM

You guys are awesome!

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Chip in to my travels to the Copenhagen Performance Sprint

by Martin Aspeli — Oct 23, 2007 10:00 PM

A study in Web 2.0 greed, or social source, or both...

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Maybe we need a press office. Or a dictator.

by Martin Aspeli — Oct 21, 2007 01:05 AM

Or ... how it's hard to tell a single story in open source (the TTW debate continues)

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Disclaimer: We do not hate TTW

by Martin Aspeli — Oct 19, 2007 11:57 PM

So please stop hating us

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New book micro-site

by Martin Aspeli — Oct 19, 2007 11:56 AM

Not so much content, but the graphics are pretty

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Professional Plone Development on Amazon

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 29, 2007 07:26 PM

Call me silly but ...

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Screw the pattern

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 29, 2007 12:08 AM

Gimme a framework!

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We've gone gold!

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 26, 2007 09:45 AM

Professional Plone Development is now shipping

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A cool project, if you have the time

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 24, 2007 01:12 AM

Archetypes a-la-carte?

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Real Soon Now - An update on my book

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 19, 2007 12:57 PM

Professional Plone Development should ship end of September!

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Python package management

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 18, 2007 12:32 PM

easy_install, zc.buildout, workingenv, setuptools, virtualenv... are we done yet?

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I'm so glad we don't have more of these

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 14, 2007 11:20 PM

Warning: Not for the faint of heart

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ExtJS is awesome

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 10, 2007 03:14 PM

Peering outside the box once more

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And now for something completely different

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 06, 2007 01:38 PM

Experiences using Pylons

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Industrial inaction

by Martin Aspeli — Sep 04, 2007 07:57 AM

Or: how 2,300 people can put 8m others in a bad mood

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A new website

by Martin Aspeli — Aug 30, 2007 08:41 PM

Containing my blog and other information

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The rumours are true - a book about Plone 3!

by Martin Aspeli — Aug 23, 2007 12:20 PM

Buy it, will you?

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Developing with Plone 3 - borg.localrole and borg.project

by Martin Aspeli — Aug 23, 2007 12:05 PM

Some brand-spanking-new code

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Component Architecture design lessons

by Martin Aspeli — Aug 23, 2007 12:03 PM

A real-world example of how not to design something (and how to fix it)

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Oh, how we love to hate Plone

by Martin Aspeli — Aug 23, 2007 12:00 PM

Or, "how I learned to stop worrying and love the open source project"

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It doesn't work

by Martin Aspeli — Aug 23, 2007 11:59 AM

A short rant for people on mailing lists

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Plone Book

I have written a book called Professional Plone Development. You can read more about it here.