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Building robust, content-centric web applications with Plone 3, an open source Content Management System.
- Plone development fundamentals
- Customizing Plone
- Developing new functionality
- Real-world deployments
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Professional-Plone -Development-Sample-Chapter-Chapter-2-The-Case-Study [945 KB]
Plone Free Online Edition
Table of Contents
Language English
Paperback 420 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date
September 2007
ISBN 1847191983
ISBN 13 978-1-847191-98-4
Author(s)
Martin Aspeli
Topics and Technologies
Content Management, Open Source, Web Development
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This book aims to teach best practices of Plone development, focusing on Plone 3.0. It covers setting up a suitable development environment, customizing Plone’s look and feel, creating new content types and forms, connecting to external databases, and managing users and groups intelligently. It also shows how to configure a production-ready server, with LDAP authentication and caching.
Book ReviewsSlashdot: "There's a great deal to like about this book. The author clearly possesses the expertise and experience needed for providing instruction on a challenging topic such as this. His explanations are not abbreviated, as seen in so many other technical monographs. Furthermore, most programmers learn best by viewing and mentally dissecting sample code. For such people, Martin Aspeli's practical approach — focusing on a substantial sample application — will prove more engaging and instructive than the made-up and oftentimes overly simplistic examples found in many computer programming books — including the increasingly popular cookbook titles." -- Michael J. Ross, Web Developer, Slashdot.org
Vitaliy Podoba: "our programmers have gained a lot of relevant information. And there is a countless number of examples that can be provided here. They will definitely get even more trying all described in the book in practice working in Plone 3.0. "
David Handy: "Aspeli is good not just for facts but recommended best practices. So far I am in complete agreement with his philosophies. And especially, I am verypleased for once to be reading relevant, up to date material!"
Visit the Free Online Edition: http://professional-plone-book.packtpub.com for a full Table of Contents and summaries from each chapter.
Plone is an open-source content management framework, built on the top of the Zope application server and written in Python. As a ready-to-use Content Management System with a focus on usability, Plone makes it easy for content authors to create and edit web content.
Plone is also used by developers, as a framework for building content-centric web applications such as dynamic websites and intranets. This book focuses primarily on the developer-oriented aspect of Plone.
Read the full Table of Contents for Professional Plone Development
You will gain an in-depth understanding of the concepts that underpin successful Plone development, including:
- How to set up a suitable development environment
- The importance of automated testing of any code you write
- How to perform Plone customizations in a manageable, re-usable fashion
- Techniques for branding Plone and changing its look and feel
- How to safely install and manage third-party add-on components
- How to create your own content types
- How to create new forms and templates
- Ways of interacting with external relational databases
- Techniques for managing users and custom user metadata
- Using Plone’s new AJAX framework to build dynamic user interfaces
- How to set up Zope and Plone in a production environment
- How to connect to an LDAP/Active Directory repository for authentication
- How to configure a caching proxy to improve Plone's performance
Throughout the chapters, there is an emphasis on demonstrating key concepts with practical examples. The reader should be able to borrow from the examples to get up and running quickly, but refer to the explanations provided to fully appreciate what is going on under the hood.
The book takes a pragmatic approach, building a realistic example application based on a case study. The code for this application is included with the book, and should serve as a useful starting point and source of examples for the reader.
This book is aimed at developers who want to build content-centric web applications leveraging Plone’s proven user interface and flexible infrastructure.
Some familiarity with the Python programming language and basic web technologies such as HTML and CSS is assumed. Readers would also benefit from some prior experience with Zope or Plone, for example as site administrators or “power users”.
Martin Aspeli
Martin Aspeli is an experienced Plone consultant and a prolific Plone contributor. He served on the Framework Team for Plone 3.0, and is responsible for many new features such as the improved portlets infrastructure, the “content rules” engine, and several R&D efforts relating to Plone 4.0. He is a former leader of the Plone Documentation Team and has written a number of well-received tutorials available on plone.org. He is also the author of Professional Plone Development and was recognized in 2008 by Packt Publishing as one of the “Most Valuable People” in Open source Content Management Systems.
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