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Plone

By / on 24 Jun, 2007

Portal

Our original site, built on Plone. I had built applications on Zope 2 and enjoyed the pythonic flavor of it so I thought to try out the CMS built on top of it. I guess you would have to say that ZODB was the first NOSQL database I had used, and I could see the attraction.

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By / on 01 Jan, 2007

Cottage Grove Public Library

In 2005 our small rural library needed help. They had a bank of Windows based public Internet terminals where you could see all the latest trends in malware and porn, if you could get the public machines to boot at all, and a website from the mid 90’s . Since this was a volunteer project and money and time for ongoing support was hard to come by, Lillibolero flushed those old Windows installs, removed the hard drives from the desktop terminals and built a Linux Terminal Server Project install. Network infrastructure had to be built or configured first, but for surprisingly little money we got 10 public terminals up and running that have over the years 2005-2015 logged around 25000 logins annually, with very little downtime.

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