Google's Webmaster Tools provide the modern webmaster/developer with some nice tools to improve a website and the way the site is indexed. In this article I'll focus on the crawler related tools. Specifically, how they helped me when I migrated from Plone to Django.
After a comment by Matt Hamilton on Twitter about the lines of code in my website project I listed in my previous weblog entry, I decided to dive in a bit deeper.
The summary: as of today, you no longer need to checkout enablesettrace from the Zope subversion repository. You can just use the Products.enablesettrace egg to debug your restricted Python code.
I frequently have to send emails from web applications. But before I deploy to a production environment, I want to make sure the mechanism works and the right mails are constructed. Here's two ways to do that.
Time for another small update of my site. I changed some 'back office stuff' and improved my blog. Apparently this also triggered some changes in the RSS feed, resulting in older entries popping up again on planet.plone.org. Sorry about that!
While I'm enthusiastic about Git, I still have to communicate with Subversion repositories like the Plone Collective. I also like my editor (Emacs) to help me interact with Git. In this blog entry I'll explain how I setup my work environment.