Friday, February 15, 2008
Using HTML CSS Selectors in XUL
When messing with XUL and you are using an alternate namespace for your elements, you need to define that name space in your CSS or nothing will happen. For example when using html:a in your XUL make sure your style sheet has this at the top: @namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Plone Planning Summit 2008 Wrapup
The Plone Community is an outstanding one and an amazing entity to be a part of. As many people know the Plone Strategic Planning Summit was this last weekend at the Googleplex. It was an amazing event, but you may not have heard much from the participants while we were there. This was because that from the time I landed until the time I took off on Monday morning, I was surrounded by Plone folks for every waking minute except for the 2 hours I got to go see my friends new baby in Redwood City.
Almost by design, the room we were holding the summit in had no tables, no chairs and almost no outlets. This meant we were able to very effectively disconnect from our laptops for 3 full days of putting it all out on this thing people call "paper". Then in the evenings we would gather in various establishments, hotel rooms or by the pool and get down to enjoying just being present with the rest of the participants.
Jon Stahl did an amazing job of keeping us 100% engaged for nearly 12 hours the first day, 8 hours the second and for a good 6 hours on the last day. I can't image that is an easy job to do and required a tremendous amount of planning. This has been huge. We were able to harness the thoughts and insight of each person who was there. Due to the amount of discussion leading up to the event, even the people not present were represented through their blog postings, email posts or lists sent with the attendees. There wasn't much left out in my opinion.
The first two days were spent completely framing the state of things and what people thought about moving forward. We carefully made no "decisions" during these days or spoke of any implementation details. That really helped keeping the group from bogging down on the small stuff. Instead, the ideas were flowing easily between the participants and made their way effortlessly to the hundreds of flip chart pages that were stuck to the wall over the course of the weekend.
The last day was about actually doing something. Through the process of extracting and distilling down the massive scrawling on the wall, we turned these ideas into concrete tasks that we can put a single person in charge of. Then, we did just that. Each task got a champion and off we went to get things done.
The old adage is true with this group. When we work, we work hard, but when we play, we play hard too. For all of the intense work we put in, we also had a great time playing together until 3:00 AM most evenings. I look forward to the next gathering, so the rest of you had better get in training so you can keep up!
Almost by design, the room we were holding the summit in had no tables, no chairs and almost no outlets. This meant we were able to very effectively disconnect from our laptops for 3 full days of putting it all out on this thing people call "paper". Then in the evenings we would gather in various establishments, hotel rooms or by the pool and get down to enjoying just being present with the rest of the participants.
Jon Stahl did an amazing job of keeping us 100% engaged for nearly 12 hours the first day, 8 hours the second and for a good 6 hours on the last day. I can't image that is an easy job to do and required a tremendous amount of planning. This has been huge. We were able to harness the thoughts and insight of each person who was there. Due to the amount of discussion leading up to the event, even the people not present were represented through their blog postings, email posts or lists sent with the attendees. There wasn't much left out in my opinion.
The first two days were spent completely framing the state of things and what people thought about moving forward. We carefully made no "decisions" during these days or spoke of any implementation details. That really helped keeping the group from bogging down on the small stuff. Instead, the ideas were flowing easily between the participants and made their way effortlessly to the hundreds of flip chart pages that were stuck to the wall over the course of the weekend.
The last day was about actually doing something. Through the process of extracting and distilling down the massive scrawling on the wall, we turned these ideas into concrete tasks that we can put a single person in charge of. Then, we did just that. Each task got a champion and off we went to get things done.
The old adage is true with this group. When we work, we work hard, but when we play, we play hard too. For all of the intense work we put in, we also had a great time playing together until 3:00 AM most evenings. I look forward to the next gathering, so the rest of you had better get in training so you can keep up!
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