What you need for this book
To follow the examples in the book, you will need a computer suitable for use as a Plone development environment. This may use either Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X, though you should ensure you have rights to install new software and that the operating system is recent enough for you to be able to install Python 2.6.
We will cover the details of setting up a development environment, including prerequisites that must be installed, in much more detail in Chapter 3, The Development Environment.