BathCamp #32 - CMS Smackdown! - Plone

BathCamp CMS Smackdown! Matt Hamilton President, Plone Foundation

5 Things I Love about Plone

Love #1 The Community

Love #2 Buildout Deployment, versioning, build, etc

[buildout]extensions = mr.developerparts = productdistros instance zopepy# Change the number here to change the version of Plone being usedextends = http://dist.plone.org/release/4.2b2/versions.cfgversions = versionssources = sources# Add additional egg download sources here. dist.plone.org contains archives# of Plone packages.find-links = http://dist.plone.org/release/4.2b2 http://dist.plone.org/thirdparty# Add additional eggs hereeggs = PIL collective.cookiecontrol# Reference any eggs you are developing here, one per line# e.g.: develop = src/my.packagedevelop = src/collective.cookiecontrol

Love #3 The ZODB

ZODB• Released in late 90’s -- yeah we’ve been doing NoSQL since before your CMS was a glint in your creators eye• Transparent object persistence• Full ACID-compatible transaction support• Pluggable storages

ZODBmyobject.foo = ‘bar’

Love #4 DiazoTheme any site (not even just Plone) without touching it. Really.

The next bit was a live demo, I’ve captured a fewscreenshots for this version of the presentation on Slideshare

rules.xml<rules xmlns="http://namespaces.plone.org/diazo" xmlns:css="http://namespaces.plone.org/diazo/css" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <theme href="http://bathcamp.org/" /> <replace css:theme-children="#content" css:content-children="#content" /></rules>

rules2.xml<rules xmlns="http://namespaces.plone.org/diazo" xmlns:css="http://namespaces.plone.org/diazo/css" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <theme href="http://bathcamp.org/" /> <replace css:theme-children="#content" css:content-children="#content" /> <replace css:theme-children="#em_widget-4" css:content-children="#portletwrapper-706c6f6e652e7269676874636f6c756d6e0a636f6e746578740a2f506c6f6e650a6576656e7473" /></rules>

Love #5 Python

Python"When

program

problem,

Python

problem,

it" Matt Sital-Singh, Netsight Developer

5 Things I Hate about Plone

Hate #1 Legacy Code

Legacy Code• When you’ve been around over a decade, you accumulate a lot of code. The world moves on• Major refactoring going on Zope 4 = -20% code

Legacy Code

Hate #2 Old Documentation

Hate #3 Everything in the Catalog

Everything in Catalog• Seemed a good idea at the time• Solr etc didn’t exist back then

Hate #4 Quality & Evolution not obvious

Hate #5 Democratic nature can mean slow fruition of ideas

Democratic• No one company• Means you don’t get lead down one route• Means consensus can take a while

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BathCamp #32 - CMS Smackdown! - Plone

by Matt Hamilton on Jun 07, 2012

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