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Successful Librecon Open Source conference
Bilbao has been for two days, November 21st - 22nd, a reference hub for the dissemination of the avant-garde technologies based on open code. LIBRECON powered by CEBIT, one of the most prominent European events on open technologies, has brought together in the Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao more than 1200 participants from 600 companies, 70 presentations from outstanding experts and to 40 exhibitor companies, all references in the ICT sector based on open code.
From Bordeaux to Bilbao - from B-BOOST to LIBRECON -, the Open Source in the heart of the Euroregion
In November 2018, the Euroregion New Aquitaine - Navarre - Euskadi hosts two important events on free software and open technologies: November 6 - 7 in Bordeaux B-BOOST Open Source International Convention (Business Opportunities with Open Source Technologies) and November 21 - 22 in Bilbao, LIBRECON Powered by CEBIT, the reference international event in the south of Europe of the open technologies sector applied to strategic sectors of the economy. CodeSyntax, our company, and ESLE, our open source association, will be present at both successful events.
Content translation endpoint for plone.restapi
plone.restapi ships with content translations support endpoint since version 1.0a22. In this post I will explain the history behind this and the decisions taken to implement it.
Summary of Plone Conference 2017
It is hard to summarize an event like this year Plone Conference. The number of talks, events and trainings, and the quality of them make it hard to explain everything, but I will try to give an overview.
collective.documentviewer with redis backed celery tasks on Plone 4 and 5
collective.documentviewer integrates the Document cloud document viewer into Plone to provide a nice preview of files, including search, first-page-screenshots and many other features. In this post we will explain how to setup collective.documentviewer to use celery based tasks to convert the documents.
Adapt your website to mobile devices
We are getting more and more visits from mobiles everyday. Google knows it and keeps taking different measures to ensure an adequate browsing experience for our visitors. How does it do it? For example, showing mobile adapted websites above the rest.
Local media application
This week, mobile applications made for four members of the Tokikom association are being presented: Anboto, Baleike, Erran and Goiena. We have developed the Android and iOS versions, which are now available to download and try.
A customized digital platform for local media
It is been years since we started to work in the Internet sector and the media: we created the pioneer blog in Basque called Sustatu.com along with Goiena, we have been years collaborating with Goiena, as well as many other media.
print ( 'We \u2764 unicode' ) sticker at EuroPython 2015
As bronze sponsors of EuroPython 2015 we had the chance of including something in the attendee bag. Since a commercial leaflet was nonsense we made this sticker.
Sponsoring EuroPython 2015
15 years ago when my colleagues founded CodeSyntax they decided to develop on Python. That's why when we heard that our PYSS friends were organizing EuroPython in Bilbao the decision about sponsoring the event was clear. Apart from that, we'll also give a talk about our experience as Python developers.
Twitter will be able to detect and markup Basque, in collaboration with PuntuEUS and CodeSyntax
Thanks to a collaboration with the PuntuEUS Foundation, the Twitter social network has taken the leap to the .EUS domain, which is the expression of the Basque language community. Moreover, thanks to data provided by CodeSyntax, Twitter will soon be able to identify tweets written in Basque.
CodeSyntax launches its trivia quiz game for mobile devices, with more than 130,000 questions
Tribual is a simple and addictive game for Android mobile devices. You and your opponent receive the same 5 questions, and the trick is to answer more of them correctly and faster than your opponent. The app has thousands of questions, which are automatically generated and cover a wide variety of topics (geography, culture, film, sports, fauna, current events, etc.). The game was first released as a Beta version in Basque, and it has been downloaded over 1,500 times. It was awarded the GipuzkoaAPPs prize for most original application.
We renewed Basque Coast Geopark's website
Last Friday the Basque Coast Geopark presented its new season of guided tours for 2015, and also a renewed website, developed by CodeSyntax.
zest.releaser and some add-ons
For some time we have been using a release_egg.sh script found in some plone svn repository (currently unreachable) to do proper egg releases, bump the egg version and upload them to pypi or our custom repository. But now we are moving to use zest.releaser for both public and private eggs. We have written two add-ons for it to ease our move from our previous hand-made-scripts.
Guide2Wear, Public transport services with wearable devices for different mobility types
A new R&D project started at home: Guide2Wear. The project Guide2Wear will evaluate the potential of wearable devices for future travel services and provide a prototype for public transport navigation services with additional functions using a wearable device. Guide2Wear project is granted within the ERA-NET TRANSPORT III (ENTIII), transport flagship call initiative 2013 “Future Travelling” and the project partners are Fraunhofer IVI (Germany), VTI (Sweden), FACTUM (Austria), InnoZ (Germany), the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (Austria), Transport & Mobility Leuven (Belgium) and CodeSyntax (Basque Country)
Presenting Buildout at PySS 14
Buildout is a tool we use in all of the development and deployments of our applications, and we have given a talk about it at PySS 14.
World Plone Day 2014: manufacturing internationalization strategy
World Plone Day was last wednesday, april the 30th, and as in previous occasions, we did celebrate it at CodeSyntax's offices, with some customers and Plone users of the Basque Country.
Journey to Brussels, thanks to our MEP and Plone
Last week, I traveled to the European Parliament in Brussels, invited by a Basque MEP, Inaki Irazabalbeitia. Mr. Irazabalbeitia was kind enought to invite a group of people involved in the promotion of the Basque langauge, and I happened to fit there, maybe also because we have made the MEP's website. And made it with truly European technology, so to speak.
Finally found a way to deploy a Plone site statically
Until now converting Plone into a bunch of HTML, CSS and JS files was a work to be done with wget or curl. You can now use stxnext.staticdeployment product, a handy product to convert your Plone site into static files. And even works with Dexterity. The "Plone Big Green Button" as described by Martin Aspeli, is a reality.
DjangoCon 2013, talks, tools and the circus
We attended DjangoCon 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, last week. A great experience. Godd vibes, connections and shared knowledge for us to keep working with Django. This framework and Plone, that great open CMS, are the main tools we use in CodeSyntax to develop web projects. Each conference that we attend confirms that we chose technologies well :-)
