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speli’s years of experience in Plone development and project management are combined with an approachable writing style to create an engaging and highly-informative guide to working with Plone. Professional Plone 4 Development stands as an excellent resource for developers of all levels.
- Eric Steele, Plone Release Manager
Plone is a web content management system that features among the top 2% of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customising and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.
If you want to create your own web applications and advanced websites using Plone 4, Professional Plone 4 Development is the book you need.
The first edition of this book remains one of the most widely read and recommended Plone books. This second edition is completely revised and up-to-date for Plone 4.1, covering new topics such as Dexterity, Diazo, jQuery and z3c.form, as well as improved ways of working with existing technologies such as Buildout, SQLAlchemy and the Pluggable Authentication Service. It retains the writing style and comprehensive approach that made the first edition so popular.
Built around a realistic case study, Professional Plone 4 Development will take you from an understanding of Plone’s central concepts, through basic customization, theming, and custom development, to deployment and optimization.
The book is divided into four sections:
First, you will be introduced to Plone and the case study, and learn how to set up a development environment.
The second section covers basic customization, including theming a Plone site using Diazo.
The third section focuses on custom development – building new content types and user interfaces, customizing security and integrating with external databases.
The final chapters cover deployment and performance optimization.
What you will learn from this book :
Setting up a productive development environment
Basics of Plone customisation and extension
Theming a Plone site using Diazo and plone.app.theming
Core concepts that underpin the workings of Zope and Plone
Creating custom content types using Dexterity
Building views and forms, including the use of z3c.form
Integrating with relational databases using SQLAlchemy
Customising the management of users and groups with PAS
Creating rich user interfaces with jQuery and jQuery Tools
Deploying and optimizing a production-ready Plone server
Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory
Approach
Professional Plone 4 Development is written in a clear conversational easy-to-understand style. This book cuts short the preamble and gets straight to the point - building robust, content-rich web applications with Plone 4. Detailed real world examples are provided for each chapter.
Who this book is written for
This book assumes that the reader is familiar with Plone from the point of view of an administrator or power user, has a basic understanding of web application development, and is comfortable with the Python programming language.
- Eric Steele, Plone Release Manager
Plone is a web content management system that features among the top 2% of open source projects and is used by more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. Its powerful workflow system, outstanding security track record, friendly user interface, elegant development model and vibrant community makes Plone a popular choice for building content-centric applications. By customising and extending the base platform, integrators can build unique solutions tailored to specific projects quickly and easily.
If you want to create your own web applications and advanced websites using Plone 4, Professional Plone 4 Development is the book you need.
The first edition of this book remains one of the most widely read and recommended Plone books. This second edition is completely revised and up-to-date for Plone 4.1, covering new topics such as Dexterity, Diazo, jQuery and z3c.form, as well as improved ways of working with existing technologies such as Buildout, SQLAlchemy and the Pluggable Authentication Service. It retains the writing style and comprehensive approach that made the first edition so popular.
Built around a realistic case study, Professional Plone 4 Development will take you from an understanding of Plone’s central concepts, through basic customization, theming, and custom development, to deployment and optimization.
The book is divided into four sections:
First, you will be introduced to Plone and the case study, and learn how to set up a development environment.
The second section covers basic customization, including theming a Plone site using Diazo.
The third section focuses on custom development – building new content types and user interfaces, customizing security and integrating with external databases.
The final chapters cover deployment and performance optimization.
What you will learn from this book :
Setting up a productive development environment
Basics of Plone customisation and extension
Theming a Plone site using Diazo and plone.app.theming
Core concepts that underpin the workings of Zope and Plone
Creating custom content types using Dexterity
Building views and forms, including the use of z3c.form
Integrating with relational databases using SQLAlchemy
Customising the management of users and groups with PAS
Creating rich user interfaces with jQuery and jQuery Tools
Deploying and optimizing a production-ready Plone server
Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory
Approach
Professional Plone 4 Development is written in a clear conversational easy-to-understand style. This book cuts short the preamble and gets straight to the point - building robust, content-rich web applications with Plone 4. Detailed real world examples are provided for each chapter.
Who this book is written for
This book assumes that the reader is familiar with Plone from the point of view of an administrator or power user, has a basic understanding of web application development, and is comfortable with the Python programming language.
About the Author
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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Format:Paperback
Short summary
If you are doing Plone 4 development, go buy this book. Now.
Some background
I started working with Plone in 2006. Back then I was really just beggining with development in general and did not know how to do things properly. I only knew how to tweak some templates and to use ArchGenXML to generate some content types. No version control, no tests, no nothing.
Then Professional Plone 3 Development came. "Wow, I'm doing things seriously wrong" was my first reaction. That booked steered me in the direction of using Subversion to control my source code, writing tests to prove my code doesn't break in various places, using pdb - the Python debugger, deploying Plone sites myself, etc.
Plone 3 vs. Plone 4
However, Plone 3 was complicated. There were all these new technologies and concepts that you now had to use. That's not bad in itself, but those technologies only delivered part of the story. You still had to use old ways to do certain tasks. Plone's learning wall was higher than ever.
With Plone 4, these technologies are not new anymore. They are polished and widely used. You only need to learn one way to do something, not three. As a consequence of this, Plone is now easier to learn. Plone's development process is cleaner, more defined, with better tools. The new book from Martin is the same: less history overhead, more confidence in newer, better tools and concepts.
PP4D
Having in mind how much Martin's previons book improved my development process I was so stoked when I heard him announcing that he started writing an updated version. After waiting for many months, it's finally out. Bigger, better, more up-to-date. Unlike how Plone 4 is leaner than Plone 3, the new book packs a hundred more pages of insights into efficient development and deployment process. It starts with introductory chapters where the author shows you how to prepare basic project specification. Then it goes over preparing your development environment for productive work. I cannot stress enough how important a well prepared environment is. Having tools pointed out in the book at your fingertips when things go wrong is just godsent. What follows is how to write actual code. Several chapters, full with examples of code that you can use in your own projects. I really like how all examples come with tests to really show developers that tests are an important part of your development process. Finally, there's deployment. These chapters show you how to properly deploy and maintain your Plone site and gives you pointers on how to scale your deployment when your projects starts getting more attention.
The information Martin gives is in accordance with latest best practices developed in the Plone community. Even if you are a seasoned Plone developer I'm sure you will find at least a few useful tricks and tools that you don't yet use and will grow to love them as soon as you do. I know I did!
If you are doing Plone 4 development, go buy this book. Now.
Some background
I started working with Plone in 2006. Back then I was really just beggining with development in general and did not know how to do things properly. I only knew how to tweak some templates and to use ArchGenXML to generate some content types. No version control, no tests, no nothing.
Then Professional Plone 3 Development came. "Wow, I'm doing things seriously wrong" was my first reaction. That booked steered me in the direction of using Subversion to control my source code, writing tests to prove my code doesn't break in various places, using pdb - the Python debugger, deploying Plone sites myself, etc.
Plone 3 vs. Plone 4
However, Plone 3 was complicated. There were all these new technologies and concepts that you now had to use. That's not bad in itself, but those technologies only delivered part of the story. You still had to use old ways to do certain tasks. Plone's learning wall was higher than ever.
With Plone 4, these technologies are not new anymore. They are polished and widely used. You only need to learn one way to do something, not three. As a consequence of this, Plone is now easier to learn. Plone's development process is cleaner, more defined, with better tools. The new book from Martin is the same: less history overhead, more confidence in newer, better tools and concepts.
PP4D
Having in mind how much Martin's previons book improved my development process I was so stoked when I heard him announcing that he started writing an updated version. After waiting for many months, it's finally out. Bigger, better, more up-to-date. Unlike how Plone 4 is leaner than Plone 3, the new book packs a hundred more pages of insights into efficient development and deployment process. It starts with introductory chapters where the author shows you how to prepare basic project specification. Then it goes over preparing your development environment for productive work. I cannot stress enough how important a well prepared environment is. Having tools pointed out in the book at your fingertips when things go wrong is just godsent. What follows is how to write actual code. Several chapters, full with examples of code that you can use in your own projects. I really like how all examples come with tests to really show developers that tests are an important part of your development process. Finally, there's deployment. These chapters show you how to properly deploy and maintain your Plone site and gives you pointers on how to scale your deployment when your projects starts getting more attention.
The information Martin gives is in accordance with latest best practices developed in the Plone community. Even if you are a seasoned Plone developer I'm sure you will find at least a few useful tricks and tools that you don't yet use and will grow to love them as soon as you do. I know I did!
Format:Paperback
This is a good book which offers a clear path for developing Plone 4 content based applications. I like the fact that even though Plone 4 still offers different ways of doing the same things, Martin doesn't try to explain everything and instead picks some technologies and sticks with them. For a newcomer to Plone development, it's a lot easier to focus on one way of accomplishing his goals.
After starting slowly in chapters 1-9 introducing developers to Plone's world and getting their feet wet. The book picks up its pace and goes into custom content types and general application development in chapters 10 to 15, including independent views, relational database connections, dynamic user interfaces and more. The last few chapters deal with deployment.
Throughout the book clear emphasis is placed on best practices and tools recommended for Plone development, so after reading it you can practically develop content applications suitable for sharing with other Plone users and developers.
Note that the ideal way to use this book is in front of the computer, with the sample code at hand, because many sections assume you are looking at that code.
Overall I think this is an essential book for any aspiring Plone developers.
After starting slowly in chapters 1-9 introducing developers to Plone's world and getting their feet wet. The book picks up its pace and goes into custom content types and general application development in chapters 10 to 15, including independent views, relational database connections, dynamic user interfaces and more. The last few chapters deal with deployment.
Throughout the book clear emphasis is placed on best practices and tools recommended for Plone development, so after reading it you can practically develop content applications suitable for sharing with other Plone users and developers.
Note that the ideal way to use this book is in front of the computer, with the sample code at hand, because many sections assume you are looking at that code.
Overall I think this is an essential book for any aspiring Plone developers.
Format:Paperback
This second edition is up to date with the latest and best practices of Plone 4.1, as well as other technologies that will land in next Plone versions.
For the readers of the first version of the book based on Plone 3, you will recognize the case study used throughout the book: the Optilux Cinema application.
The technologies covered by new chapters are (not exhaustive list) :
- Dexterity content types
- theming with Diazo/plone.app.theming and viewlets templates overrides with plone.app.themingplugins (which uses z3c.jbot underneath)
- an enquiry form with the z3c.form library,
- relation database development with SQLAlchemy for the "reservations of ticket and reporting" use case.
An advanced subject like how to log in with a Facebook account by writing a plugin for the Zope PAS (Pluggable Authentication Service) that uses OAuth API and Beaker with collective.beaker for caching is also covered.
Of course, throughout the book, you will write tests with the new plone.app.testing library instead of the old Products.PloneTestCase.
New tools are mentioned like mr.developer used to checkout packages, jarn.mkrelease to make the releases, z3c.checkversions to check for new package versions.
In the chapter entitled "Nice Core Concepts of Zope Programming", Martin explains among other thing object traversal, all you have to know about acquisition (implicit, explicit, chains), catalog search and how to use catalog brains efficiently. This is a refreshing remainder, even for me.
The concepts of the Zope Component Architecture are well explained with understandable examples.
It is a must-have in your books collection. I'm sure, you will find this book useful. Always keep it near you, so you can quickly look for a given example when developing your own project.
For the readers of the first version of the book based on Plone 3, you will recognize the case study used throughout the book: the Optilux Cinema application.
The technologies covered by new chapters are (not exhaustive list) :
- Dexterity content types
- theming with Diazo/plone.app.theming and viewlets templates overrides with plone.app.themingplugins (which uses z3c.jbot underneath)
- an enquiry form with the z3c.form library,
- relation database development with SQLAlchemy for the "reservations of ticket and reporting" use case.
An advanced subject like how to log in with a Facebook account by writing a plugin for the Zope PAS (Pluggable Authentication Service) that uses OAuth API and Beaker with collective.beaker for caching is also covered.
Of course, throughout the book, you will write tests with the new plone.app.testing library instead of the old Products.PloneTestCase.
New tools are mentioned like mr.developer used to checkout packages, jarn.mkrelease to make the releases, z3c.checkversions to check for new package versions.
In the chapter entitled "Nice Core Concepts of Zope Programming", Martin explains among other thing object traversal, all you have to know about acquisition (implicit, explicit, chains), catalog search and how to use catalog brains efficiently. This is a refreshing remainder, even for me.
The concepts of the Zope Component Architecture are well explained with understandable examples.
It is a must-have in your books collection. I'm sure, you will find this book useful. Always keep it near you, so you can quickly look for a given example when developing your own project.
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