A "middle-class developer" talks about lessons learnt during 6 years of active Plone development. From the early "copy and paste" Archetypes development to Dexterity, and beyond.

1. From copy to paster
A middle-class Plone developer’s tale
Érico Andrei
Simples Consultoria - Brazil

2. About me

3. A marketing guy ...
•Evangelist @ Microsoft Brasil
•Consultant position at Grupo Abril
•Marketing and BA Teacher at local
Colleges

4. Turned to a developer
•Joined Simples Consultoria in 2004
•Working with Plone since
•> 100 projects deployed
•Made a lot of bad choices ...

5. OAB/SP

6. Univ. Metodista

7. Brasil.gov.br

8. My own blog

9. Middle-class
developer

10. So let’s talk

11. In the beginning ...

12. there was copy
there was paste

13. and it was good

14. it could
be painful
it could
be risky

15. but very productive

16. Then came Plone 3

17. We blamed
“Harry Aspeli”

18. But it was our bad,
not his
(or anyone else)

19. Time to learn again

20. Time to take part

21. Time to contribute

22. Today

23. Package releasing
•We have two base namespaces:
•beyondskins.*
•sc.*
•And if it’s generic enough we use
common namespaces like collective or
archetypes.

24. Some of them
archetypes.languagebugfix
sc.dev.core,
sc.paster.*
sc.social.bookmarks
sc.social.viewcounter
sc.contentrules.groupbydate
sc.contentpanels.sitepolicy
sc.kupu.objectsupport
Products.BrFieldsAndWidgets
sc.pfg.brazilianfields

25. Future

26. Plone 4 is here

27. And we need to leave
some stuff behind

28. while keep tabs on
new stuff

29. Questions?

30. Thank you!
Érico Andrei
http://www.simplesconsultoria.com.br
erico@simplesconsultoria.com.br
twitter: @ericof
irc: ericof
plone.org: erico_andrei