Books

Plone 3 for Education

Break the webmaster bottleneck by empowering instructors and staff

• Enable instructors and staff to represent courses using Plone's built-in content types—news items, collections, and events—without writing a single line of code
• Embed sound and video into your course materials, news feeds, or anywhere on your Plone site
• Written by Erik Rose—member of the Plone 4 and 5 Framework Teams
• Expert guidance on using the best plug-ins so that you can get the best out of your site right from the beginning

Plone 3 Theming

Veda Williams' new book is a best practices guide for Plone theme development. With an emphasis on current Plone 3 technologies, this book will provide you the information you need to create a professional grade Plone theme.

Practical Plone 3: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Powerful Websites

This book is a community effort; 13 authors have written chapters on a variety of topics. In spite of that, the book hangs together well. Part 1 covers background information about Plone and the Zope component architecture. Part 2 covers customizations you can make to Plone out-of-the-box. Parts 3 and 4 move on to more advanced topics requiring development and sys admin skills.

Read reviews by Jazkarta team members:

• Lennart Regebro
• Carlos De La Guardia
• Malthe Borch

Professional Plone Development: Building robust, content-centric web applications with Plone 3, an open source Content Management System.

Plone guru and framework team member Martin Aspeli has written an excellent guide to best practices in Plone 3 development. This is a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in developing new functionality for Plone. It also includes information about real-world Plone deployments.

Read a review by:

• Alan Berg