[Chicago] Plone Book Review

[Chris McAvoy]

Hi Brian,

What do you use Plone for?

Chris

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Brian J. Greenberg
<bjgreenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoohoo!  Finally someone is talking about Plone.  I've been using Plone in
> a very limited fashion for a few years.  I've only recently been getting
> deeper into Plone.  The only reason I haven't done more in Plone is that I'm
> not a developer and don't have a lot of opportunity do work with it
> professionally, which is one reason why I like working with it so much.  You
> don't have to write any code if you can't/don't want to.  It's ready to go
> right out of the box as a content management system/framework.  There are
> lots of application plug-ins (called products) and it's really easy to use
> and the on-line documentation is fairly through.  It installs in a snap and
> runs on Linux, Window and Mac, no problem.  Very easy to migrate a Plone
> site from one site/machine to another and has built in data protection tools
> and easy to back up.
>
> --
> Brian J. Greenberg
> http://briangreenberg.net
>
>  ... you wrote ...
>
>
>
>  Matt Dorn posted a review of a new Plone book that the publisher sent
>  to us, http://chipy.org/Professional_Plone_Development.
>
>  I haven't been paying much attention to Plone or Zope, but lately have
>  been considering taking a deeper look at both.  Is anyone using Plone
>  or Zope where they work?  The community seems strong as ever, and
>  Plone especially comes up in discussions with non-Python-centric folks
>  as a contender for CMS duties, in direct competition with M$
>  Sharepoint.  Anyone have any experiences to share?  Has ChiPy been
>  negligent on the Plone / Zope front?
>
>  Chris
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