Talks
How To Get a Fabulous Website on a Modest Budget Using Plone
The University of Minnesota Press had big ideas about what they wanted their website to do, but a budget that common wisdom would judge too modest for those aspirations. Sally and Alec Mitchell describe how Jazkarta was able to create the site that UMP dreamed of within their budget constraints using Plone.
When Not to Use Plone: and Why You Might Consider Django or Pyramid
Nate explores scenarios when a full-featured CMS such as Plone is the right tool for the job, and when a more lightweight web framework is preferable.
Pyramid Deployment and Maintenance
Carlos shows how a Pyramid application can be deployed using a front end web server like Apache or Nginx. He also covers how to automate deployment using buildout and a PyPI clone, and post-deployment creation of a variety of maintenance scripts and cron jobs that perform application specific tasks through Pyramid.
The Future of Search in Plone
Sally provides an information retrieval tutorial and discusses the questions: What does Solr bring to Plone? Should Solr become part of Plone core?
ZODB Tips and Tricks
We may know that our content is safely stored in the ZODB, but there's a lot more than the Zope Object Database can do for us. In this talk Carlos covers some tips and tricks to do things like rescue crashed databases, do ad-hoc reports of database objects, view the contents of the ZODB outside of Plone, use relstorage and more.
Plone is great... Python is too!
So you decided to use Plone for your project or are considering it. One of the greatest benefits about that decision is that you get to work with Python. Don't stay on the shallow end of the pool, go deeper into Python! Carlos shows how you can use it to make your site work better and maybe even create some independent Python apps.
Agile Development with Plone
Sally describes Jazkarta's approach to managing a Plone website development project in an agile fashion, with a part time, distributed team. Topics include roles, scheduling, estimation, and project management tools.
Moving to the Cloud
"The Cloud" is a buzzword these days, but in this talk Nate and Sally describe what you need to know about public and private clouds, why it's important, and why you might want to consider it for your company/organization.
Easier and Faster Plone Theming with Deliverance and xdv
Nate explains how to make your Plone site look like any website design, when you have only basic HTML/CSS skills.
Scalable Plone Hosting with Amazon EC2 for Rice University's Rhaptos Open Learning Platform
Nate describes the benefits of cloud computing, and the services that Amazon provides. He demonstrates a 5 minute launch of Plone on EC2 and provides a case study of how Rice University's Connexions project is deploying their Rhaptos software on EC2.
DjangoCon recap
Nate's summary of some of the most interesting talks of DjangoCon 2010.
Large Files without the Trials
ore.bigfile, a minimalist solution to the problem of uploading, downloading, and versioning very large files in Plone, was developed as part of our work with Bioneers. Aaron and Sally describe how it works.
Plone Web Services Panel Discussion - Penn State
A panel discussion about Plone web services that took place at the 2010 Plone Symposium East. Participants were: Sally Kleinfeldt, Mike Mulich, Kevin Kalupson, Alan Runyan, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker.
Best Practices for Plone Hosting and Deployment
What are the best Plone hosting options? How can I use hostout, mr.awesome, and silverlining in my Plone deployments? How do I set up caching, load balancing, and process control tools for my Plone site? Nate covers all these topics and more.
Theming Websites Effortlessly with Deliverance
Nate shows how to theme any CMS in 5 minutes with Deliverance, a tool that makes theming easy. It takes content from a CMS and inserts it into placeholders in a theme destination.
What's New in Plone 4
Nate highlights some of the most important changes, including performance improvements, WYSIWYG editor, file storage, and the new user/group management interface.
How to Choose an Open Source CMS
Nate outlines the evaluation process, important considerations, and compares Plone, Drupal, Joomla!, and Wordpress.
Plone Web Services Panel Discussion - Budapest
Sally led this panel discussion at the 2009 Plone Conference in Budapest. Matt Wilkes describes AtomPub for Plone, Matt Hamilton discusses CMIS, and Alec Mitchell and Calvin Hendryx-Parker describe their adventures with Plone web services.
Deliverance - A Compelling Way to Theme Plone Sites
Why would you want to use Deliverance to theme your Plone site? Nate answers this question and walks you through the theming process.
Scientific Collaboration with Plone: A Case Study
Sally describes the lessons learned on a project to create a scientific collaboration site for the Advancing Green Chemistry organization. The site helped policy experts quickly prepare a brief for the incoming Obama administration.
