I made a track a long time ago and when I came to build this site I decided to upload it.

A few days ago Drew emailed me to ask if it was OK to use the track for a recording of a series of interviews. I said yeah! The interviews focus on the relationship between image and text and are very interesting.

So sharing leads to great content for everyone. This makes me happy. I feel like I've given something - however small - back to the net for once.

Following the conversation in response to my MP's letter about ID cards:

Original high-res PDF version here. Happy voting!

I downloaded Plone (with Zope 2.7.3 no less). It got itself installed and running with zero cleverness on my part. It was only when I started playing with it that I became confused. An example that sums up my experience nicely: I was able to install an iCal-compatible calendar product and access it through WebDAV from iCal, I was not able to work out how to add an event to the calendar however!

Edit: Oh, got it now. This thing is a bit mad though.

Everything in a CMS should be versioned. Zope 3 has undo, but that's not object-specific, it's system-wide, so if you make a fatal change and then do ten or so things to another object, you've lost your undo for your fatal change.

Everything: content object, images, stylesheets and especially products (or modules, InfoCMS's equivalent) should be version managed. The user should be able to just select from the last X versions and branch from there, without destroying newer versions.

Zope 3 does have a versioning package, apparently but it's unclear what the scope of the facilities is. CPS apparently implements it on Zope 2. InfoCMS used to version page object content, but I honestly can't remember if I kept that feature when I reimplemented it all with page objects.

Edit: Zope 3 version control is definitely happening in the right way. People have the same ideas as me and while the code looks to be in it's early stages, it seems to implement much of the required functionality. The critical thing is: will implementors make use of it for their products?

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