Plone 3 customization - 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
• Zope architecture overview

• Zope o objects
• ZODB, Publisher, Security, ZPT

2. Installing

• Creatin Zope Instances with zc.buildout
• Installing Plone from sources
• Creating a Zope portal
• Content Management Framework overview
• Plone instance architecture
• Services and main objects overview (skins, types, catalog, workflow)
• Zope 3 technology overview (views, adaptators, viewlets and portlets)

3. Plone basic services

• Plone information architecture

• Portal_types service: Plone objects and differences with the reational paradigm
• Security and Workflow
• Users and users' groups, privileges and roles
• Controlling with the workflow
• Creating your workflow

4. Indexing

• Tracking content

• Portal_catalog service

5. User Interface

• Portal_skin service, css e javascript, KSS libraries
• Viewlet manager and portlet infrastructure
• Browser-view anathomy

6. Customized content

• Content-Centric design

• Objects or relational tables?
• Thinking as content

• Archetypes

• Creating your type of content
• Schemes, field and widget

• Creating your product
  
  • Product template with paster
  • Archgenxml: designing the application

7. Plone products' packages structure

• Product intallation into  Plone istance
  
  • Installation script
  • Generic Setup overview

• Turning Archetypes user interfaces into everything we want
  
  • ZPT overview
  • Base_view Archetypes' macro structure

8. Specializing your archetype

• Creating a searching interface with Formlib

• Zope 3 required technologies overview
• Form controller overview

• Creating a product connected portlet

• Binary files managing out of ZODB

9. Data Base

• Accessing relational DB with SQLAlchemy

10. Production

• More than one ZODB! Yes we can! ZEO, Caching