Professional.Plone.Development.pdf

Professional Plone

Development

Building robust, content-centric web applications with

Plone 3, an open source Content Management System

Martin Aspeli

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

Professional Plone Development

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First published: September 2007

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Foreword

by Alexander Limi, co-founder of Plone

It's always fascinating how life throws you a loop now and then that changes your

future in a profound way—and you don't realize it at the time. As I sit here almost

six years after the Plone project started, it seems like a good time to relect on how

the last years changed everything, and some of the background of why you are

holding this book in your hands—because the story about the Plone community is at

least as remarkable as the software itself.

It all started out in a very classic way—I had just discovered Zope and Python, and

wanted to build a simple web application to teach myself how they worked. This

was back in 1999, when Zope was still a new, unproven technology, and had more

than a few rough spots. I have never been a programmer, but Python made it all

seem so simple that I couldn't resist trying to build a simple web application with it.

After reading what I could ind of documentation at the time, I couldn't quite igure

it out—so I ended up in the online Zope chat rooms to see if I could get any help

with building my web application.

Little did I know that what happened that evening would change my life in a

signiicant way. I met Alan Runyan online, and after trying to assist me, we ended

up talking about music instead. We also reached the conclusion that I should focus

on what I was passionate about—instead of coding, I wanted to build great user

interfaces and make things easy to use. Alan wanted to provide the plumbing to

make the system work.

For some reason, it just clicked at that point, and we collaborated online and

obsessed over the details of the system for months. External factors were probably

decisive here too: I was without a job, and my girlfriend had left me a few months

prior; Alan had just given up his job as a Java programmer at a failed dot-com

company and decided to start his own company doing Python instead—so we both

ended up pouring every living hour into the project, and moving at a break-neck

pace towards getting the initial version out.

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