Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Moving CMF site across platforms

One great thing about Zope is that you can move a Zope instance from one machine to another, and it just works... even if the other machine is on a different architecture or operating system. (case in point: I developed Tyrell's plone site on Mac OS X and copied it onto our Linux/Intel server... it just worked).

However, if you move between Windows and an operating system that uses forward slashes for path delimiters, like UNIX/Linux/BSD/OSX/etc, you need to make some minor edits in the CMF portal_skins configuration to change some relative paths from backslashes to forwardslashes, or vice versa.

This script from the ZopeLabs cookbooks makes that process very easy.

ZopeLabs: change skinpath after moving site

Back in the Dwarf

I got to scratch one item off my wish list this weekend. The Red Dwarf Series I and II pack. It's been so long since I've seen these, my favourite seasons of my favourite TV series.

My brother-in-law Shane and I watched the first series yesterday. He has seen lots of series 3-6, but never 1 or 2, so for him, this was all new stuff.

WROX is finished?

The Register: Wrox hit the rocks as Glasshaus cracks

Bummer. WROX is the publisher of the WebObjects book I contributed to in 2001. Sucks to see them die.