Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Adding Super Powers to
Plone
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
or
Use the Right Tool for the
Right Job
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Why do we use Plone?
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Content Management System First
• Powerful Workflow tools
• WYSIWYG tools for editing
• WebDAV and FTP built in for managing
content
• SmartFolders
• Versioning, Staging and Locking
• Support for Word and PDF document
indexing
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Membership Management
• OpenID support
• Fine grained Security Permissions
• Users and Groups Administration
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Content Delivery
• Plone is slow (it does a lot for us)
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Content Delivery
7,462
7,500
5,625
3,750
1,875
750
227
8
0
Plone Zope Apache Nginx
requests/second
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Solutions
• CMFDeployment
• Entransit
• Deliverance
• CacheFu
• Squid
• Varnish
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Why do make Plone do
unnatural things?
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Highly Interactive Sites
• Twitter-like Web 2.0
• High Level of Social Interaction
• Visitor Generated Content
• Tracking Visitor Downloads and Interaction
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Get Agile
• Zope 2 or 3
• Grok
• Pylons
• Django
• Ruby on Rails
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
eCommerce
• Long running issue
• Many solutions, but none that great yet
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Solutions
• Commercial Cart Applications
• osCommerce
• Roll your own
• Pylons
• Ruby on Rails
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
No Plone, How do we find
things?
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Enhanced Search Engines
• Xapian
• Lucene
• Google Search Appliances
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Get the Word Out
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Mailing List
• ExactTarget
• Constant Contact
• VerticalResponse
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Other Software as a Service
• Salesforce.com
• NetSuite
• SurveyWorld
• SurveyMonkey.com
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Relational Data
• OODBMS is great
• Except if the data is highly relational
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Solutions
• Zope DB Adapters
• Other frameworks
• Zope 3
• Pylons
• Rails
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Large Files
• Video
• Audio
• PDFs
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Solutions
• Streaming Media Servers
• Tramline
• Filesystem Storage
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Where is the all heading?
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Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Questions?
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