Kotti CMS - how to create a new content type with an image
If you want to create a new content type based on an existing one with Kotti you need to write few lines of code and zero html for the add and edit views: it is very simple (browse Kotti's resources.py...
View ArticleKotti CMS - workflow reference
Yet another blog post about Kotti CMS (http://kotti.pylonsproject.org/): this time I'm going to talk about workflows and security.Workflows in Kotti are based on repoze.workflow. See...
View ArticlePython mock library for ninja testing
If you are going to write unit tests with Python you should consider this library: Python mock (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock).Powerful, elegant, easy, documented...
View ArticleKotti CMS - how to store arbitrary data with annotations
With Kotti CMS you can extend existing types inheriting from a base class (eg: Document) and obtain another type of object (eg: MyDocument) with new fields, new workflows, custom views, custom...
View ArticleKotti CMS - how to turn your Kotti CMS into an intranet
In the previous posts we have seen that Kotti is a minimal but robust high-level Pythonic web application framework based on Pyramid that includes an extensible CMS solution, both user and developer...
View ArticleKotti CMS events - insert subobjects automatically
Yet another small recipe for Kotti CMS: how to initialize automatically a new object once inserted with events, for example adding a subobject.Use case? When someone creates a UserProfile object...
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Pyramid, MySQL and Windows: the good, the ugly and the bad
Pyramid, MySQL and Windows: the good (Pyramid), the ugly and the bad. This title does not fit perfectly the main characters of this blog post because some of theme are both ugly and bad, but it doesn't...
View ArticlePyramid exceptions logging
If you want to log exceptions with Pyramid (http://www.pylonsproject.org/) you should start reading carefully the following resources:...
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How to choose your CMS
This article is dedicated to non Python folks searching for a good CMS because I've seen too many times people taking bad decisions.If you are searching for a CMS solution or are you writing a custom...
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Pip for buildout folks
... or buildout for pip folks.In this article I'm going to talk about how to manage software (Python) projects with buildout or pip.What do you mean for project?A package that contains all the...
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kotti_multilingual
kotti_multilingual is a package still in an early stage of development that adds to the Kotti CMS (http://kotti.pylonsproject.org/) multilingual capabilities. It is neither feature complete nor can be...
View ArticleKotti CMS - ElasticSearch integration
Announcing a new Kotti CMS (Python web framework based on Pylons/Pyramid and SQLAlchemy) plugin that provides ElasticSearch integration for fulltext search and indexing:kotti_es...
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Kotti CMS - how to add new roles
Kotti CMS has an intuitive user and permissions management that scales to fit the requirements of larger organizations.This blog post is a small recipe: how to add a new role in user management views...
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Kotti CMS - a successful story (part 1)
Yet another Kotti CMS (http://kotti.pylonsproject.org) article.We'll see in this blog post:advantages of the public website decoupled (frontend) from the private content administration area (backend)...
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Kotti CMS - frontend decoupled from backend. How we did it (part 2)
In the previous article http://davidemoro.blogspot.it/2015/07/kotti-cms-successful-story-part-1.html we have seen that:decoupled public website from the private content management is coolPython and...
View ArticleIntroducing substancek. A Kotti project
Let me introduce substancek, a Kotti (http://kotti.pylonsproject.org) project.What it is substancek?substancek is:Kotti (web application framework) + decoupled admin interface It is only an additional...
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Combinatorial testing: ACTS
Last year I discovered the ACTS tool thanks to Rex Black's "Pairwise Testing with ACTS" webinar: https://rbcs-us.com/blog/pairwise-testing-with-acts-available-now/and I find it very helpful when you...
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Test automation framework thoughts and examples with Python, pytest and Jenkins
In this article I'll share some personal thoughts about Test Automation Frameworks; you can take inspiration from them if you are going to evaluate different test automation platforms or assess your...
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Hello pytest-play!
pytest-play is a rec&play (rec not yet available) pytest plugin that let you execute a set of actions and assertions using commands serialized in JSON format. It tries to make test automation more...
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API/REST testing like Chuck Norris with pytest play using YAML
In this article we will see how to write HTTP API tests with pytest using YAML files thanks to pytest-play >= 2.0.0 (pytest-play provides support for Selenium, MQTT, SQL and more. See third party...
View ArticleHigh quality automated docker hub push using Github, TravisCI and pyup for...
UPDATE 20190611: the article contents are still valid but I definitively switched from pyup to the requires.io service. Why? There were an unexpected error on my pyup project and the support never sent...
View ArticleSetting up Cassandra database service on TravisCI
At this time of writing TravisCI says that if you want to run a Cassandra service you have to add a cassandra service according to https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/database-setup/#cassandra:services: -...
View ArticleTurn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server using websocketd
Yesterday I tried for the first time websocketd and it is amazing!This is a little gem created by @joewalnes that let you implement language agnostic WebSocket applications based on any command line...
View ArticleCSS selectors guidelines for smooth test automation with Selenium
Mind exploding trying to locate a DOM element and after 20 minutes you get a selector like that?.elem__container_search div:nth-child(1) .row1 tr:nth-child(5) input:nth-child(2)or even worse you have...
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Testing metrics thoughts and examples: how to turn lights on and off through...
In this article I'll share some personal thoughts about test metrics and talk about some technologies and tools playing around a real example: how to turn lights on and off through MQTT collecting test...
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