Plone: Why it is better than your CMS. When to use a CMS vs a framewo. What makes a good CMS.

1. Sydney Python Meetup Feb

3. Why it's better than your CMS

4. How sites are built

5. Backend Developer (plugins)

6. Themer

7. Integrator

8. Content Editor

9. Administrator

10. Simple Blog
Simple CMS e.g. wordpress
Your Team Off the shelf

11. CMS Shop
Client Team Your Team Off the shelf

12. Intranet/ECMS
Your Team Off the shelf

13. CMSaaS (e.g.
ploud.com/squarespace)
SaaS provider
You team

14. Startup/App
e.g. Django/pyramid
Your Team Off the shelf

15. Dylan's Law of Frameworks
“The bigger the framework, the bigger the
learning curve, the greater the inflexibility...
but the bigger the chance you can use
someone else code”

16. Plone is easy to use

17. DEMO
http://ploud.net
http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.earthlingtwo

18. Plone vs. …

21. Who uses Plone?

23. Intranets

24. Plone is Fast

26. Chameleon

27. Easy to cache

28. Is it secure?

29. Plone Security Record (3Y)
http://plone.org/products/plone/security

30. @LulzSec
VS.

31. LulzSec targeted
Hacked...
DDoS
Wordpress sub-site

32. Easy Theming

33. Diazo

34. Diazo
e.g. <replace css:theme="#content”
css:content=”#plone-content">

36. Easy Code
from five import grok
from Products.CMFDefault.interfaces import
IDocument
class HelloWorld(grok.View):
grok.context(IDocument)
grok.requires('zope2.View')
grok.name('hello-world')
http://plone.org/products/dexterity/documentation/manual/five.grok

37. True Open Development

41. How do I get a Plone site?

43. Self Host

44. Commercial Service Providers

45. SaaS

46. Why Python?

47. Python …
Fast to write
Easy to maintain
Runs on anything
Can be optimised with C
Connects to anything
Secure
Popular…

49. Where’s the database?

50. Zope Object Database
storage = FileStorage.FileStorage(’db.fs') new User instance
# Create
db = DB(storage) newuser = User()
conn = db.open()
# Add whatever attributes you want to track
class User(Persistent): newuser.id = 'amk'
pass newuser.first_name = 'Andrew' ; newuser.last_name = 'Ku
...
dbroot = conn.root()
# Add object to the BTree, keyed on the ID
# Ensure that a 'userdb' key is present
userdb[newuser.id] = newuser
# in the root
if not dbroot.has_key('userdb'):
# Commit the change
from BTrees.OOBTree import OOBTree
transaction.commit()
dbroot['userdb'] = OOBTree()
userdb = dbroot['userdb']

51. ZODB makes complex structures easy
http://david.wglick.org/2009/visualizing-the-zodb-with-graphviz

52. What’s the future of Plone?

53. CMSUI & Deco

54. How do I get support?

56. contact@pretaweb.com http://www.pretaweb.com
Dylan Jay