'10 Intranet Lessons' event moving to new Birmingham venue
After the success of our last two events '10 Lessons learned from building successful corporate intranets and portals' we have decided to host another event, this time in Birmingham.We have managed to...
View ArticleWorld Plone Day 2012: Bristol, UK
World Plone day is happening this Wednesday the 25th of April. What is World Plone Day? It is a chance for companies and organisations all across the globe to run some kind of event related to Plone....
View ArticlePlone Open Garden 2012 - Sorrento
Once again this year I attended the Plone Open Garden event in Sorrento, Italy. This is an event I look forward to during the year as it gives a chance to really take a step back and chat with people...
View ArticleCMS Smackdown! - BathCamp #32
TL;DR: A bar brawl. Seven CMSs in the ring. Plone gave them a good kicking. Interesting to learn form other CMSs. My talk on Plone is here.Wednesday evening I attended the "CMS Smackdown!" at BathCamp....
View ArticleA Concentration on UX Throughout
User experience (UX) is often spoken of in terms of the look and feel of visual elements: the layout of a navigation or the arrangement of fields on a form. A UI-layer thing.It’s comforting to believe...
View ArticleWorking Against the Grain
With any tool there is a natural fit for that tool. We've all seen this in all manner of parts of our lives. Using a butter knife to unscrew the back of a kids toy to add new batteries, using a shoe as...
View ArticleA Brief Bit of History
The University of Bristol have recently done a campaign to highlight the success of the University's alumni after they graduated. As part of this they commissioned a number of short videos with a...
View ArticleThe next '10 Intranet lessons' event to happen in Reading
We are pleased to announce that Netsight is hosting another Roadshow event '10 lessons learned from building successful corporate intranets and portals'. This event will be held in Reading at The Town...
View ArticlePlone Conference - How to convince my boss I should go?
In just over 3 weeks time, Plone Conference 2012 will take part in Arnhem, Netherlands. The Plone Conference is an annual event that takes place in a different city each year and brings together the...
View ArticleWhat can Software Learn from A Dresden Doll?
A few days ago, I saw a tweet from Simon Phipps pointing out a TED talk done last month by Amanda Palmer. In his blog post Simon highlighted the final words of Amanda in her talk on the music...
View ArticleReading Roadshow May 2013
Due to the success of our Roadshow in Reading at the end of last year we have decided to do it again, in exactly the same location with exactly the same agenda.Reading worked well for us and our...
View ArticlePlone Open Garden 2013
Once again I made the annual pilgrimage I make to the home of amazing food, ice cream, sunshine and amazing people -- The Plone Open Garden in Sorrento. This is now something like the 5th time I think...
View ArticleUser Management in Plone - Single Sign-on, Active Directory, etc.
The week before last I was in Sorrento at the Plone Open Gardens and presented a talk on some work we had been doing at Netsight on doing transparent Single Sign On to Plone using Active Directory...
View ArticleProprietary Software CEO shoots self in foot regarding Open Source
I just saw a tweet from Jeff Potts, Chief Community Officer at Alfresco pointing to an article on CMSWire.com in which the CEO of Univa, Gary Tyreman, claims that proprietary software is safer, less...
View ArticleSoftware release cycles
Wow, it's been many months since I last blogged anything. Last night I saw something on twitter though that got me thinking. It was a tweet by Gartner Analyst, Merv Adrian:
View ArticleNetsight is Recruiting Experienced Web Developers
Netsight are looking for a new full-time developer. Based in the UK, we are one of Bristol's longest running web design and development firms. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to...
View ArticlePlone vs Hippo: The Followup
Earlier this evening, I took part in the CMSConnected webnar, Plone vs. Hippo. I was representing Plone and up against Arje Kahn (@arjecahn) from Hippo.
View Article'10 Lessons' Intranet Event back by popular demand
On March 21st Netsight is hosting it's second half-day event '10 Lessons learned from building successful corporate intranets and portals'.
View ArticlePlone Symposium East 2011
This is a slightly tardy write-up of my trip to Plone Symposium East 2011, hosted by the Weblion group at Penn State University, USA.
View ArticleHow To Shoot Yourself in the Foot With Social Media
Last week, a Content Management System vendor ran a seminar on how to select a content management system.
View ArticlePlone Open Garden - Sorrento
Last week, I attended the Plone Open Garden (PLOG) event in Sorrento Italy. This event has been running for a number of years now, under the name 'European Plone Symposium', but this year adopted a...
View ArticleOnline Information 2010: Challenges for Commercial CMS Vendors
Last week's Online Information 2010 expo (formerly IMS) in London marked what looked like an interesting turning point in the CMS market. There were far fewer commercial CMS vendors there than previous...
View ArticleReport from Online Information 2011
Last week, Netsight were at the Online Information 2011 expo in London. This is a big expo focussed at online information providers and management. There are a lot of information professionals and...
View ArticleOpen Source Content Management Systems - A Tale of Two Reports
Last week two very different reports into Open Source Content Management Systems were published:
View ArticleWe're off to Online Information 2011
Once again we will be shortly heading off to Online Information 2011 in London. On Monday we will be packing up the van with all the Plone goodies and heading up to set up the stand. The expo is held...
View ArticleOnline Information 2010: Don't take Plone for Granted
So, Online Information 2010 is now over. Three days of a conference and associated show floor expo dealing with all manner of things to do with producing, managing, publishing and searching information...
View ArticleZea Partners meeting, Arnhem Sept 2011
Yesterday I attended the first Zea Partners meeting since the organisation was 'reborn' at the Plone Open Garden in Sorrento earlier this year. The meeting was kindly hosted by Four Digits in Arnhem...
View ArticleBBC Domesday Reloaded
Long before Wikipedia existed, or Facebook, or even the Internet Archive existed. Back when computer memory was measured not in gigabytes, or even megabytes, but in kilobits. Before the Internet was...
View ArticleUnicode stuff and lxml
This is just a little tip for others, who if like myself, often battle with Unicode issues in python and need a little help.
View ArticlePlone UI Sprint 2011 Writeup
This weekend Netsight hosted the Bristol Plone UI Sprint. It was a short notice event, with a small group of people in the Plone community invited to come along and break some ground on a new...
View ArticleNetsight fundraising for the NSPCC
Netsight has pledged to raise £1600 for the NSPCC by the end of September 2011. By raising £1600 the NSPCC fully train a Childline volunteer so that they can answer calls from desperate children. Each...
View ArticlePlone Konferenz Munich 2012
Speaking of events, I've been invited over to Munich next week to deliver one of the keynote talks at the Plone Konferenz that is being hosted there. There are 34 talks over three days. Most of the...
View ArticleA Year of Plone
Someone recently asked on a mailing list I am on about what sort of conferences they should attend as a web developer. Quite a few general ones were mentioned, then people started saying about getting...
View ArticlePlone: The DNA of a Successful Open Source Community
Today I gave a talk at the University of Bristol on the DNA of a Successful Open Source Community.
View ArticlePlone Conference 2011 Nearly Here!
With just over two weeks to go, the annual Plone Conference is nearly upon us. It is not too late to buy your ticket and attend if you have not done so already. At US$350 it represents amazing value...
View ArticleMatt Hamilton elected as President of the Plone Foundation
Matt Hamilton, Technical Director at Netsight has been named President of the Plone Foundation for the coming year. Matt has already served time on the Plone Foundation board and this is his 5th term...
View ArticleFull Text Code Searching
Last night I saw a tweet re-tweeted by David Glick about a post from one of the original guys who worked on Google Code search, Russ Cox. He has released some code for doing code search based upon the...
View ArticleGovWest and Building and Intranet Your People Will Love
Two events I'll be speaking at this week:
View ArticlePlone Konferenz Munich a Success
This month, the Plone Konferenz München 2012 took place. I was invited along to the event by the organiser, Philip Bauer from Starzel.de to present a keynote talk. I was only able to make a very quick...
View ArticleCMSConnected Plone vs Hippo Webinar
Today (Wednesday) I will be participating in a live webinar organised in a series by CMSConnected. I will be representing Plone, and Hippo CTO Arje Cahn will be representing Hippo. If you want to cut...
View ArticlePlone and the National Library of Congress of Chile
Back in December last year, we were attending the Online Information Expo in London and on the second day of the conference a guy called Christian Sifaqui came up to the Plone stand. He had been at the...
View ArticlePlone at The Guardian's Smartgov Live Show
Are cuts to public finances a threat to public services or an opportunity for greater innovation and use of open source software?
View ArticleHave the vendor open source companies ruined it for the rest of us and if so...
Firstly, I need to credit Dylan Jay for the excellent title of a talk he did, which I have pinched for this blog post. I have recently been reading "Confessions of a Public Speaker" by Scott Berkun, a...
View Article'10 Lessons' Intranet Event
On October 5th Netsight is hosting a half day event in Bristol focussing on our 10 Lessons learned from building successful corporate intranets and portals.
View ArticleOpen Source — It works
I'm going to write a longer post about the fantastic Plone Conference 2013 in Brasilia very soon. But for now I just wanted to write about something that happened just before.
View ArticleResurrecting old Plone 3 buildouts
Back in the early days of Plone 3, when buildout was still in it's infancy, nobody remembered to pin their versions. If you return to one of these buildouts, you get scary looking messages like this:
View ArticlePlone Intranet Development Sprint update (July 2014)
After another successful development sprint, we are pleased to announce the release of ploneintranet.workspace 1.0!
View ArticlePlone Intranet Development Sprint update (May 2014)
Netsight is working with Cosent and the Plone Intranet Consortium to design and build an open source social intranet platform.
View ArticleOptimising Local Role Security Reindexing in Plone
Ever since the introduction of local roles in Plone way back in the prehistoric ages, there has been a problem to contend with. This is that how do you get the site search in Plone to abide by the...
View ArticleNetsight is Recruiting: SysAdmin
Netsight are looking for a new full-time Systems Administrator.
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