Redomino's "Customizing Plone" course is a middle level training for developers and web designers that already know Plone and want to deepen their skills in order to best exploit the potential of this very powerful Content Management System.

New! A new opportunity for the most exacting and courious: the training day plus! An additional day of training (October 22nd, 2008) for asking to the teachers all kind of doubts and requests about the topics discussed during the course and for deepening the matters the participants wish to know better.

Goals

At the end of the training the participants will know all the main features of Plone that allows developers to customize pages and forms, how to make deep changes to the site by installing and configuring new products and how to manage medium to high complexity projects.

Who should consider this training?

Redomino's "Customizing Plone" course is for web page builders and developers who already have experience with Plone general configuration and want to improve their knowledges in customization techniques.

Overview of topics

• Introduction

• Brief History of Plone
• Competition
• Plone-the-Application and Plone-the-Framework
• Passing to Zope 3
• Why to choose Plone - general considerations
• The Plone community
• Prerequisites and glossary
• Creating a Zope Istance mannualy and with zc.buildout
• Customization Basics
• Learning to Help Yourself
• Log file, error log, setting  a PDB break point
• Development Tools
• Plone and ZMI control panel
• Architecture of a Plone Instance
• About Zope Application Server
• Overview on Features and Content Types ( skins, types, catalog, workflow)
• About Zope 3 technology assumed by Plone (views, adaptors, viewlets and portlets)
• Information architecture in Plone
• Plone Objects (portal_types service)
• About Zope Objects
• Creating custom Plone Objects without programming language
• User Interface
• Controlling a folder default view
• Creating a custom skin
• About ZPT
• Portlets and viewlets
• Changing Plone Interface with viewlet managers
• About CSS e Javascript
• Security and Workflow
• Users and groups of users, permissions and roles
• Advanced control
• Creating your own workflow
• Finding contents
• The Portal_catalog Service
• Organizing Contents with Collections
• Generic Setup
• Making a backup and recicling a configuration
• Computerizing Portal Management
• Other optios of the control panel
• Setting up Kupu, Plone visual editor
• Versioning
• Finding and Evaluating Products
• Installing a Product and Playing it safe
• Finding Help
• Converting Plone in a Blog
• Converting Plone in an Issue Tracker
• Case studies of production installations: More than a ZODB is possible, ZEO, Caching
• Zope as a Service: Backup and Database Mainteinance, Virtual Hosting
• Caching
• Autentication with LDAP

NOTE:

This course is held in Italian. Organizing an English-speaking session is possible upon request.

Redomino's "Customizing Plone" course will be held each month.

The classes will have an enrollment limit of 12 people.

The course site will change each month, in February it will be held in Torino, next sites will be Rome and Milan.