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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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Martin Aspeli is an experienced Plone consultant and 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 and the "content rules" engine. He is also the current leader of the Plone Documentation Team, and has written a number of well-received tutorials available on plone.org.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having been exposed to the Zope/Plone environment for a couple of years now and seen the release of Plone 3.0 as quite a significant turning point in the road map I thought it time to get up-to-speed fully with some of the new features and technologies being exposed.
Picking up a copy of Martin Aspeli's Professional Plone Development book where Plone 3.0 is the primary focus seemed to be a good starting point, and I wasn't to be disappointed.
Following an introduction and background of Plone the book starts straight into a case study which persists through the proceeding chapters. The idea of a single case study is a good one and allows you to see how an entire project can be built up using the Plone/Zope/Python platform and is introduced to the reader in the form of a list of project requirements (and references to jump ahead if only particular elements interest you.)
By Chapter 3 you are guided into setting up your development Plone/Zope instance and giving background on concepts that may be new to the reader such as Buildouts and Eggs. The Chapters then merge straight into developing the products to meet the case study requirements.
Although, as mentioned previously you could jump to just the section you were interested in, this book really comes into its own when used as a complete guide through the project and is followed through page by page, which is how I feel I have gained the best benefit.
Chapter 12 particularly drew my attention due to its look into Relational Databases, a topic which has required me to integrate with since my early Plone 2.0.5 deployments. Rather than the author pushing the concept of using the ZODB for all data, the use of external Relational Databases is investigated and the best methods for incorporation stepped through.
Nicely, the last few Chapters in the book discussing real world deployments of the platform as a series of next steps following the development stage of a project. Plone has been criticised for poor performance in the past, but Plone 3.0 brings real improvements in this area and Performance and Benchmarking are covered well over Chapters 16 to 18.
In summary, this book is not for the newbie to Plone or content editors (some earlier Plone books would be the best start here), but is an excellent resource to bring yourself up-to-date with the Plone 3.0 way of thinking if you have some previous development experience of Plone. The importance and value of this book is also emphasised by the lack of off-line publications in this software area, although the on-line support community is superb (and very active) it is very welcome to add a book like this to your shelves.
Picking up a copy of Martin Aspeli's Professional Plone Development book where Plone 3.0 is the primary focus seemed to be a good starting point, and I wasn't to be disappointed.
Following an introduction and background of Plone the book starts straight into a case study which persists through the proceeding chapters. The idea of a single case study is a good one and allows you to see how an entire project can be built up using the Plone/Zope/Python platform and is introduced to the reader in the form of a list of project requirements (and references to jump ahead if only particular elements interest you.)
By Chapter 3 you are guided into setting up your development Plone/Zope instance and giving background on concepts that may be new to the reader such as Buildouts and Eggs. The Chapters then merge straight into developing the products to meet the case study requirements.
Although, as mentioned previously you could jump to just the section you were interested in, this book really comes into its own when used as a complete guide through the project and is followed through page by page, which is how I feel I have gained the best benefit.
Chapter 12 particularly drew my attention due to its look into Relational Databases, a topic which has required me to integrate with since my early Plone 2.0.5 deployments. Rather than the author pushing the concept of using the ZODB for all data, the use of external Relational Databases is investigated and the best methods for incorporation stepped through.
Nicely, the last few Chapters in the book discussing real world deployments of the platform as a series of next steps following the development stage of a project. Plone has been criticised for poor performance in the past, but Plone 3.0 brings real improvements in this area and Performance and Benchmarking are covered well over Chapters 16 to 18.
In summary, this book is not for the newbie to Plone or content editors (some earlier Plone books would be the best start here), but is an excellent resource to bring yourself up-to-date with the Plone 3.0 way of thinking if you have some previous development experience of Plone. The importance and value of this book is also emphasised by the lack of off-line publications in this software area, although the on-line support community is superb (and very active) it is very welcome to add a book like this to your shelves.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
The Next Level
27 Oct 2007
Format: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.
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
As good as it gets for plone manuals
15 Feb 2008
Format: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.
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
If you develop with Plone, read this book!
24 Jan 2008
Format: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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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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