Sometimes when you are doing a lot of Plone development you could miss the big picture: Plone is not just a CMS. It's a damn good CMS with almost unlimited possibilities of integration. However its 'unlimity' has started to be one of its biggest limitations.

1. “future is bright,
future is
bristol, 28-oct-2010

2. author
Andrew Mleczko
Plone Integrator
Redturtle Technology (Ferrara/Italy)
amleczko@redturtle.it
http://www.modoexperto.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/legohan.jpg

3. My story
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

4. 2.6.0
★ TTW - 100% Through the Web
★ simple CMS
★ add enhancements fast
★ code that works
(works-for-me)
★ projects started to grow
★ not too many add-ons those
days
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov

5. 2.0.x
★ TTW - 100%
★ theme in portal_skins/custom
★ using SQL database for
content development
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov

6. 2.5.x
★ move code to filesystem
★ reduce TTW development
★ using Archetypes for content
development
(and ArchGenXML)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov

7. 3.x
★ using zc.buildout
★ using eggs
★ adding a lot of new
functionalities (feeling smart)
★ using for everything
★ fighting with complexity and
performance (feeling fed up)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov

8. nowadays
★ using as a CMS only
★ for the rest there is always a
proper tool
★ lesson learn (feeling happy)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov

9. is not all-in-one framework
http://www.flickr.com/photos/legoagogo/

11. summary
★ “ is a product that
provides a platform for content-
centric web applications”
/Martin Aspeli/
★ “Explicit is simpler than a
framework”
/Christian Scholz/
★ “Archetypes is often (mis)used as
a ‘form framework’”
/Martin Aspeli/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

12. plone chaos
page
event
news item
forum
image
file
shop
shopping cart
invoices
profiles
chat
micro blogging
blog
video
tracker
issues
satisfaction
form
GetPaid
maps
survey
gallery
inventory
i18n
articles
agenda
link
reservations
registration
forms

13. this is how it ends...

14. integrations
http://valledigargullasproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/death-star-02.jpg

15. search engines
http://www.flickr.com/photos/legoagogo/

16. search engines
★ advanced search features
★ index content from multiple
sources
★ it is fast
★ examples:
- collective.solr
- alm.solrindex
- rt.tsearch2
- collective.gsa
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyathlon

17. solr
sources
Z39.50
web site
Books
retriever
retriever
retriever
solr
search

18. external apps
tsearch2
websites
Emilia-Romagna
Piemonte
.......
ore.contentmirror
SQLAlchemy
tsearch2
ratings
comments
stats

19. frontend applications
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl

20. frontend
application
★ when caching is not the
answer
★ when you don’t need CMS
features for frontend users
★ examples:
- repoze.bfg +
ore.contentmirror
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

21. repoze.bfg
CMS
ore.contentmirror SQLAlchemy
website
comments
authentication

22. dms
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl

23. dms
★ Document Management
System
★ CMS is just a part of more
complex DMS deployment
★ examples
- collective.googlesharing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/legoagogo/

24. external apps
google docs
websites
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25. vertical applications
http://jimkirchoff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/4154463591_f126000363_o.jpg

26. vertical
application
★ CMS is just a part of a
complex project
★ project is fit to customer’s
narrow functionality
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

27. repoze.bfg
intranet
website
e-commerce
inventory
CRM
ore.contentmirror
SQLAlchemy
SQLAlchemy

28. where is the force ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl

29. wsgi
★ Deliverance
„Deliverance: Plone theming
without the learning curve”
/Nate Aune/
★ repoze.who
Identification and
authentication framework,
inspired by ’s PAS
(with pas.plugins.sqlalchemy)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/legoagogo/

30. databases
ZODB
★ repoze.zodbconn
allows ZODB databases to be
constructed from URI specifications
SQL
★ SQLAlchemy
Python SQL toolkit and Object
Relational Mapper
★ ore.contentmirror
Plone Content Serialization to a
Relational Database
★ collective.lead
SQLAlchemy/Zope2 transaction
integration
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilesino/

31. webservices
★ collective.gsa
Integrates Plone site with a
Google Search Appliance
★ collective.solr
Integrates the Solr search
engine with Plone
★ alm.solrindex
A ZCatalog multi-index that
uses Solr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

32. what should you do ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrovezini

33. let do cms
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

34. performance matters
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

35. build market!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokebelch/

36. questions?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov

37. the end
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