- Paperback: 420 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847191983
- ISBN-13: 978-1847191984
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 862 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #444,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book teaches Plone development best practices, focusing on Plone 3.0. It covers setting up a development environment, customizing Plone's look and feel, creating new content types and forms, connecting to external databases, managing users and groups intelligently, configuring a production-ready server, LDAP authentication, and caching. Aimed at developers wanting to leverage the proven user interface and flexible infrastructure of this open-source Content Management System, it takes a pragmatic approach, building a realistic example application whose code is included with the book. Built on the Zope application server and written in Python, Plone makes it easy for content authors to create and edit web content, and is also used by developers as a framework to build content-centric web applications like dynamic websites and intranets. Readers need familiarity with Python and basic web technologies such as HTML and CSS, and would also benefit from prior Zope/ Plone experience.
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The Next Level, Oct 27 2007
By Karl E. Horak - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Professional Plone Development (Paperback)
This is absolutely the book I had hoped it would be -- something to take me, an average Plone 2.5 administrator and developer, up to the next level of competency and into Plone 3.0. Our shop tends to be conservative and hangs back about 6 months before accepting a major new upgrade. This is the book that will keep me current and up-to-speed even though our production server is still back at 2.5.Just a quick once-through has taught me a lot and suggests improvements for our existing Plone sites. The text provides a detailed case study and plenty of the examples. The sections on events, viewlets, and adapters have already been worth the price of the book.
Written primarily for a *NIX environment, it has enough Windows side notes for someone like me who operates Free BSD servers but develops on a Windows box. Definitely not for a Plone newbie, but not unapproachable for the intermediate level, this book will find a welcome place on developers' shelves. Aspeli has made a fine contribution and highlights the tremendously exciting Plone 3.0 features that are now available out of the box.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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As good as it gets for plone manuals, Feb 14 2008
By Dan MacKinlay - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Professional Plone Development (Paperback)
This well-written, lucid and very intelligent book is the perfect choice for those developers who must, for whatever reason, use plone. Far and away the best one out there. It is not comprehensive, by design, but rather concentrates on the 'best practice' elements of plone - zope 3 integration, elegant use of relational databases, well-structured deployments based on paste, integrating version control and so on.Unfortunately, it is the elegance and clarity of this approach which really shines a light on the legacy inconsistencies, code-bloat, messiness and quirky multiples re-invention of the wheel that characterises Plone as it stands in 2008. By all means, if you are stuck with plone, use this book as a means of smoothing over your pain. But otherwise, it's perhaps most useful and some provocative ideas about how you could use Zope 3 to build new projects, as well as an elegant demonstration that despite plone moving towards coherence, there is a terrifying amount of nasty code out there in Plone that it takes a book this long and erudite to steer clear of. Maybe pick up Weitershausen's Web Component Development with Zope 3 for a similarly intelligent and eloquent, but far less terrifying, read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you develop with Plone, read this book!, Jan 24 2008
By Juan Pablo Gimenez - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Professional Plone Development (Paperback)
Professional Plone Development, the right title for an excellent book.Martin's book have the answers. Almost every aspect of Plone 3 pro-development is covered in this book,
- Creating instances with buildout
- Become familiar with the debugger
- Overriding Zope 3 components
- Using GenericSetup to create Extension Profiles
- Creating a Custom Theme
- Using the Archetypes Framework to create Custom Content Types
- Ajax in Plone, Rich User Interfaces with KSS
- Deployments in the real world
I'm still developing in Plone 2.5 but this book is always on my desk because a lot of stuff covered here could be used in 2.5 too.
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