My friend Tim did a new Xmas scene for RJ. Its one of the first he ever did. It is called tic and makes everything double. So here is the Lovely Xmas present for all Mac owners. Download RJ.zip and have fun ;-)

Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

p.s. this patch should also solve some of the issues with the old one… let us know if you experience any problems.

The fourth snowsprint is over, a big Zope and Plone sprint. This year with 56 people from 14 different countries. We met as usually in the alps of Austria and stayed at the very nice Gasthaus Hirschen. Everything perfectly organized thanks to our lovely sister Miann. This year we had a very nice mix of topics and the results are amazing.

• performance for viewlets and views in zope3 - they are now cachable!
• z3 training application - more people learned the wonderful world of zope 3 component architecture
• Philipp von Weitershausen gave a one day tutorial about Grok
• Multimedia for Plone - Nate lead the multimedia team and they added some new features to the Plone4Artists package
• Calendaring for Plone - from the calendaring track, lead by Spanky the best from different products was taken and put into a new one, check out dateable
• REST - me and Stefan Holek continued on the lovely.rest package for zope 3 that was started by Stephan Richter. We managed to add a REST api for Stefan’s lovely.counting counter with only few lines of code.

Much more was accomplished and even more was taught and learned. This is what some are saying: continue reading the full article

For those of you who have not heard about the venice project / joost yet, here is how i would describe it in short: IP TV with community functions. I m subscribed to a very interesting mailing list named after an asian noodle soup, which opened the doors to get a beta account for the venice projct.
Somehow they managed to get a big buzz about what they do, which i think is a bit over the top, but the whole thing is quite interesting.

why?

first, the video quality is very good. that was the first thing which struck my mind.
second, they have a bit of content and it looks like they might manage to organize more.
third and the most important thing: it looks like they have an architecture which allows the creation of all sort of plugins. That is very, very powerful. Combine IP TV with the freaks out there and chances are quite good that they will write applications which blow your mind.

Looking forward to see more.

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