Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook : 70 Simple but Incredibly Effective Recipes for Creating Your Own Feature Rich, Modern Plone Add-on Products by Diving into Its Development Framework

The examples in this book follow a sample project creating a digital newspaper website to meet the requirements of a fictional customer who wants to place commercial advertisements all over the site. The whole book is a comprehensive collection of recipes that elaborate a series of well known use cases. You will find an organized step-by-step procedure to accomplish each task followed by detailed explanations to better understand how and why each topic was undertaken, and many links to online references and other related sections in the book that can supplement the subject in question. You can read the whole book or just pick the recipes that are relevant for you; where necessary, cross references will help you understand the recipes even if you do not read them in sequential order.This book is for programmers who have some knowledge of Python, Plone, and Zope. If you want to develop feature-rich add-on products in Plone, this book is for you. It is aimed at the development of backend features, so you need not have other web-related skills such as HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.

Juan Pablo Giménez

Juan Pablo Giménez is a programmer with more than 10 years of expertise in the FOSS field. He started as a C programmer and Linux sysadmin but quickly turned to web development, founding and directing Rcom, an IT firm based in Rosario, Argentina. Five years ago he started working with Plone, his last and true love.

Marcos F. Romero

Marcos F. Romero has been a software developer since 1997. Since 1999 he has worked on numerous projects of sites and web applications. In 2007 he started to participate in Plone projects. For over 10 years he has been interested in Usability as a discipline applicable to everyday activities, which he can luckily actively employ in Inter-Cultura, a company that specializes in this discipline, where he has been working for several years.