Plone 3 developement training - Program

1. Introduction

• Brief History of Plone
• Competition
• Plone-the-Application and Plone-the-Framework
• Passing to Zope 3
• Why to choose Plone - general considerations
• The Plone community
• Prerequisites and glossary
• About Zope Architecture
• Zope Objects
• ZODB, Publisher, Security, ZPT

2. Installation

• Creating a Zope Istance with zc.buildout
• Installing Plone from Source
• Creating a Plone portal
• About Content Management Framework
• Architecture of a Plone Instance
• Overview on Features and Content Types ( skins, types, catalog, workflow)
• About Zope 3 technology assumed by Plone (views, adaptors, viewlets and portlets)

3. Basic Plone services

• Information architecture in Plone
• Security and Workflow
• Users and groups of users, permissions and roles
• Advanced control
• Creating your own workflow

4. Indexing

• Finding contents
• The Portal_catalog Service

5. User interface

• Portal_skin, CSS e Javascript, KSS
• Managing viewlets and portlets
• Anatomy of a browser-view

6. Customized content types

• Custom Content Types
• Content-Centric design

• Archetypes
• Templates with Paster
• Archgenxml

7. Plone packages structure

• Plone Products Package Structure
• Installing the Products
• Transforming the user interfaces from Archetypes to anything we want
• About ZPT
• Macro of base_view Archetypes

8. Specializing your own archetypes

• Creating an search interface with Formlib
• About Zope 3 Technologies you need
• About the form controller
• Creatinga portlet connected with our product
• Managing Binary Files out of ZODB

9. Data base

• Access to Relational DBMS with SQLAlchemy

10. Production

• Case studies of production installations: More than a ZODB is possible, ZEO, Caching