New Book on Plone 3 published!

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Author: JT Smith

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.

Packt Publishing has published a new book on Plone 3, titled, Professional Plone Development, http://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book.
It focuses primarily on the developer-oriented aspect of Plone.

What will you learn from this book:

  • How to set up a suitable development environment
  • The importance of automated testing of any code you write
  • How to perform Plone customizations in a manageable, re-usable fashion
  • Techniques for branding Plone and changing its look and feel
  • 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

    More details about the book can be read at: http://www.packtpub.com/Professional-Plone-web-applications-CMS/book

    Alexander Limi, co-founder of Plone has written a foreword about the book. It can be read here: http://www.packtpub.com/article/Professional-Plone-Development-Foreword-by-Alexander-Limi

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