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2007/04/05: Plone Workflows – Part 1
The first part of this workshop is intended as an introduction to the topic Plone workflows alltogether. It will attempt to convey how the Plone workflow concept is structured and what concepts are associated with it. The next part of the workshop will go into detail as regards the application of workflows. The main goal of this introduction is merely to explain the Plone workflow concept and the terminology adherent to it.
2007/03/28: Using the Taconite jQuery Plugin under Zope
The AJAX Framework jQuery is considered one of the easiest to use and most light libraries. Particularly the expandability via plugins has moved multiple developers to develop various Open Source expansion tools. This article deals with the jQuery Taconite plugin in conjunction with Zope.
2007/02/23: Service Name and PID of a Zope Instance
In certain situations it can be quite useful to discern the service name and the PID (process identifier) of a Zope instance - in order to monitor the instance, to control memory usage, or to start a new service, for example. This article descripes a Python program that assists to restart the service via a batch file.