Wohoo! Lovely Systems will be represented in the Board of the Plone Foundation for the third consecutive year. Congratulations to Sasha Vincic, the new Lovely Member in the Plone Foundation. Bye, bye Jodok Batlogg. We had a great time in Boston, Seattle and Chicago. Special thanks to Stephan, Jon, Artis and Ken.
For a recent project markus and me just coded some scripts and a flash-movie for presenting a portal.
The idea is show the construction page when visiting http://yourportal.com until you “publish” the portal.
The flashmovie counts down from 9 to 0 and redirects to the startpage (there is also an undo button for setting the portal offline, in case you pressed too early)
These are 2 screenshots of the countdown and the menu.
(the countdown numbers are fading in and out, it really looks much better than on the screenshot)
Feel free to modify and use this stuff for presenting you own portal.
Note: Publishing is not done by changing workflow states of objects so this is no secure way to “hide” your portal content from searchbots or nosy people. There is just a index_html script that redirects to http://yourportal.com/construction or to http://yourportal.com/view depending of the current state of your portal (given by a property on the plonesite) for more technical details please refer to the readme.
Perian is a really handy tool if you have to deal with flash videos(.flv). With this Quicktime plugin you can simply watch those movies inyour Quicktime player.
With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:
- Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
- MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
- These formats when they are inside an AVI: h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.
Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime
And the best: it’s free (as free beer) and open source (licensed under GPL 2)
