Talks http://www.jazkarta.com Recent Jazkarta talks daily 1 2010-08-24T17:45:15Z How To Get a Fabulous Website on a Modest Budget Using Plone http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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. UMP envisioned a cutting-edge, dynamic, data-driven site where users would get lost exploring their remarkable catalog of books. We were able to fulfill their expectations by using Plone, plone.app.theming, and selected Plone add-ons such as eea.factednavigation.

Visit the site at upress.umn.edu.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-17T15:24:40Z News Item When Not to Use Plone: and Why You Might Consider Django or Pyramid http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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. In the many years that we've been providing Plone consulting services, we've done some projects where Plone was clearly not the best choice of technology for the job, and we paid the price of making the wrong decision.

In other projects, we've steered the customer to use one of the Python web application frameworks such as Django or Pyramid, and we and the customer have been pleased with the results.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-17T15:09:04Z News Item Pyramid Deployment and Maintenance http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-17T15:05:00Z News Item The Future of Search in Plone http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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? From the beginning, the Zope Catalog has provided Plone with out-of-the-box content search - an important feature not found in all open source content management systems. However, search engine technology has been racing ahead and user expectations of what search should do have been changing. At the same time, search engines have gone from premium enterprise product to cheap commodity. The most important search engine worth considering these days is open source: Lucene/Solr. Several add-on products exist that integrate Solr with Plone, and interest in this technology is growing.

These slides include conclusions from the conference discussion.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-17T14:55:00Z News Item ZODB Tips and Tricks http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-17T00:35:22Z News Item Plone is great... Python is too! http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-17T00:18:51Z News Item Agile Development with Plone http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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. At Jazkarta, our Plone projects typically consist of a mix of custom functionality and theming. The client's budget is usually fixed and their requirements are imperfectly defined at the start of the project. This cries out for an agile, iterative approach, however our development environment is not what most agile experts would recommend. No one is co-located - our clients are remote and our developers are distributed, and they are not working full time on a single project.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-13T12:55:00Z News Item Moving to the Cloud http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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. We'll discuss the pros/cons of public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud, and how to easily deploy Plone sites to AWS using buildout and mr.awsome. Lastly, we'll look at best practices for setting up your Plone site in a flexible and scalable way to take full advantage of all that these cloud providers have to offer. In particular, we'll examine the Connexions/Rhaptos project as a case study, and how they benefited from an Amazon-backed infrastructure.

Video of the talk at Plone Symposium East 2011.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2012-01-12T22:10:00Z News Item Easier and Faster Plone Theming with Deliverance and xdv http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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.

 

 

 

Video recording of the talk from Plone Conference 2010 in Bristol, UK.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2010-10-29T22:35:00Z News Item Scalable Plone Hosting with Amazon EC2 for Rice University's Rhaptos Open Learning Platform http://www.jazkarta.com/news/scalable-plone-hosting-with-amazon-ec2-for-rice-universitys-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.

 

 

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2010-10-28T00:00:00Z News Item DjangoCon recap http://www.jazkarta.com/news/djangocon-recap Nate's summary of some of the most interesting talks of DjangoCon 2010.

 

 

 

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2010-09-20T00:00:00Z News Item Large Files without the Trials http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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.

See the video recording from this talk at the Plone Symposium East 2010 conference.

The mission of the non-profit organization Bioneers is to provide environmental education and social connectivity through conferences, radio and television programs, books, and online materials. They engaged Jazkarta to build a file asset server based on Plone to help them organize, capture, and store multimedia and textual content. This project led us to make innovations in Plone's handling of massive multimedia files.

We developed a product that bypasses Plone and Zope and lets the web server front end handle large files directly - thereby avoiding the problem of stalling a Zope thread while hundreds of megabytes are being transferred. Uploads are handled within Apache by ModPorter, or alternatively the user can transfer files to an incoming area using their favorite FTP client. For downloads the web server directly serves the file content from ZODB blob storage after Plone has performed security checking. Versioning of large files is handled outside of CMFEditions, and copies are made only when necessary.

To make sense of the large number of image variants, we also created a way for Bioneers staff to designate a source image and record what other images are derived from it. We added image thumbnails to the default CMFEditions history view, and using jQuery provided lightbox behaviour so users can see relationships at a glance.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2010-05-28T00:00:00Z News Item Plone Web Services Panel Discussion - Penn State http://www.jazkarta.com/news/plone-web-services-panel-discussion-pennstate 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.

 

 

 

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2010-05-27T00:00:00Z News Item Best Practices for Plone Hosting and Deployment http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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.

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]]> No publisher Sally Kleinfeldt 2010-05-27T00:00:00Z News Item Theming Websites Effortlessly with Deliverance http://www.jazkarta.com/news/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.

 

 

 

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