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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.

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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 ‚€Œpower users‚€¬ù.alt="Professional Plone Development" title="Professional Plone Development

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How to set up a suitable development environment

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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.

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Kevin Harvey Oct 18, 2008

I started with Plone about a year ago, doing visual design through the web-interface it provides. Martin's book opened my eyes to a whole new way of developing for this platform. It's certainly an advanced users book (I'm still working my way through it), but should be considered required reading for anyone who considers themselves a Plone developer.NOTE: If you are a Windows developer, get ready to do a lot of Googling to figure out certain commands on your machine. I wound up installing a Ubuntu distribution because everything is so much harder to do in Windows.

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Maciej Dziergwa Feb 20, 2008

Professional Plone Development is the first book about Plone that was up to date in the moment of publishing. It covers all z3 conepts that are alrady available in Plone. Martin describe step by step proccess of developing and deploying web aplications based on Plone 3. This is a must read for everyone that want to create good quality solutions in Plone. One of biggest advantage of this book (except of knowledge about new Plone 3) is that Martin reveal to us a lot of good practices how to work with and develop with Plone. Good work, hope there will be more books like this

Karl H. Oct 27, 2007

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.

Carlos de la Guardia Dec 12, 2007

The book covers Plone 3 development in depth and is also very current, as it was released almost together with the Plone 3.0 release. When using open source technologies, it's rare to have a book that covers a technology so thoroughly and in so timely a fashion as Martin's book does with Plone 3. Also, he is a core Plone developer, which gives the book a lot of authority.The structure of the book is well thought out and the division in four parts clearly delineates the path taken by the author. The length of each part really reflects its importance with respect to the main subject of the book, which is the development of content centric web applications.A case study is developed throughout the book, with full code available for download at the publisher's special book site. Many readers of this book will be looking to use Plone 3 for a project of their own soon, and following the discussion by the author about how to best apply Plone's many capabilities to the case study may help put things in perspective for them.One other important thing about the book is that it focuses a lot on proposing a set of best practices for modern Plone development, like developing on the file system with source control, testing heavily, using buildouts to create repeatable development environments and turning to Zope 3 component based development. Rather than spending a separate chapter or two on this, the practices are generally integrated into every chapter by way of example.I sincerely recommend that any web developer seriously interested in Plone buy Professional Plone Development by Martin Aspeli today. Martin's book is a timely and authoritative guide to Plone 3 development and a statement of best practices at the same time.

Bryan R. Hinton Jan 12, 2008

I am moving away from OpenACS/Aolserver and decided to look more into Plone/Zope so that I can use Python for development. I purchased this book last week and I am about half way through the book. This book is great. It walks you through a Plone 3 installation step-by-step. Plone 3 is awesome and I highly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about web development with Plone. The book covers all of the latest Plone 3 topics - including Relational db connectivity to Plone, current testing methodologies and their applicability to Plone, in-depth detail on Plone 3 security, and much more!!Bryan Hinton

Professional Plone Development: Building robust, content-centric web applications with Plone 3, an open source Content Management System.

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