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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Plone Live Review. I have been reading Plone Live by Michel Pelletier and Munwar Shariff of CIGNEX Technologies and I highly recommend it. Plone Live is one of several professionally published books on Plone. Other books include Andy McKay's The Definitive Guide to Plone, Julie Meloni's Plone Content Management Essentials, and Cameron Cooper's Building Websites With Plone. Plone Live fits into this existing By noemail@noemail.org (Seth). [Enter Content Here]
8:30:31 AM

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

New Plone Book: PloneLive.

There is a new Plone Book available: PloneLive 1.0 by Michel Pelletier and Munwar Shariff. What makes PloneLive really interesting is that it is a LiveBook that is constantly being updated. You can buy it print on demand for $44.95 from Amazon or a year's subscription for $29.95. The PloneLive Site also has a blog and other content...[Enter Content Here]

8:18:32 AM

Monday, December 27, 2004

New Plone Open Source CMS Book. Plone expert Cameron Cooper's new book is out. 'Building Websites with Plone' explains how Plone works, shows how to use its many out-of-the-box features, and explains how this highly flexible system can be extended and customized. Built on the popular... [CMSwire]

I had to hit Google's cached version of this page for some reason. Here's the link to the book at Amazon.

1:22:54 AM

Sunday, September 26, 2004

A Plone Primer. A Plone consultant, Brad Bollenbach, has written a nice introduction to the open-source CMS, Plone (which is built on top of the Zope application server) in O'Reilly's ONLamp e-zin... [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
10:14:04 PM

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Open source and visible source.

Zope Corp.'s layered strategy of engagement with open source and visible-source communities is a compelling blend of the strengths of free and commercial software development. In two previous columns, Open source citizenship and Giving back to open source, I explored the tendency of enterprises to fork open source projects rather than join them. Pedhazur suggests that a commercial entity supporting both an open source base and a visible-source layered product can reduce the need to fork. By outsourcing code enhancements, the argument goes, an enterprise can enjoy single-throat-to-choke control without seceding from a project's community. It remains to be seen how broadly this model can apply, but in cases where it does, what's not to like? [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

In this two-minute clip, Zope Corp.'s Chairman Hadar Pedhazur describes the visible source model as a middle-ground option between the few large open source projects, whose direction an enterprise cannot easily influence, and the many smaller ones that enterprises can influence, but typically fork in order to do so. ... [Jon's Radio]
12:24:23 AM

Monday, August 18, 2003

XSLT recipes for interacting with XML data [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News]
9:45:25 PM

Monday, August 04, 2003

Revisiting Zope. For years I've been following the adventures of Zope, an open source application server that is particularly adept at content management. The Zope engine and its layered applications are written in Python, and the whole system is built on top of a Python-based object database called ZODB. Having done a lot of Zope development myself, I know firsthand how powerful and productive this arrangement can be. Admittedly it's an unorthodox approach that an enterprise IT planner might be reluctant to bet on. But as I learned recently on a visit to Zope's headquarters in Fredericksburg, Va., some big organizations are doing just that. NATO's worldwide intranet, for example, is based on Zope. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio]
4:23:33 PM