[Chicago] ChiPy *North* presentations / topics

[Naomi Ceder]

+1 on a talk about Diazo, +0.9 on plone...

+1 on a marmir update




On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Ken Wasetis - Contextual Corp. <
ken.wasetis at contextualcorp.com> wrote:

>  Would anyone be interested in hearing about latest developments in /
> seeing demo of Plone?  Or of Diazo?
>
> Also, the new approach to theming in Plone is called Diazo (see:
> Diazo.org), which can be run as a WSGI plugin without Plone at all; we just
> happened to standardize on it and incorporate it into Plone core in most
> recent release or two.
>
> Diazo leverages lxml under the hood and is pretty sweet, if I do say so.
> It's always fun to build a mash-up of, say, Fox News content and apply the
> CNN theme or something.  LOL  It basically lets you leverage XSLT (higher
> abstracted API rules to do 90%) to apply whatever static (or remote) theme
> to your dynamic web apps.
>
> While Diazo can be used to theme a one-off web app, I think its sweet spot
> is the ability to theme consistently across multiple web apps of different
> technology flavors and/or hosting locations, especially in a SaaS world,
> where you might not always have back-end access to modify templates, CSS,
> etc. (if 3rd party provides the web app, such as Salesforce.com; yes, you'd
> have to run requests through your own proxy and experience more hops, but
> when you absolutely need to theme consistently across apps...)
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
>
>
>
> On 1/18/13 7:48 AM, Brian Ray wrote:
>
>
>  Does anybody want to present on anything at ChiPy North edition next
> week?
>
>  I could do a follow up talk on Marmir (https://github.com/brianray/mm)
> if anyone is interested. However, it will probably last no longer than the
> first (20 minutes or so).
>
>
>
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