Conference Tutorials

by Alan Runyan last modified Jul 31, 2005 12:25 PM
There will be one day with two track of tutorials on July 20th

Track 1

start topic
9AM

Hands On: Building Extranets

Rob Miller

After building the extranet for the Burning Man event and several years of Zope experience - Rob Miller is eager to pass on his strategy. Particapants will start from a base Plone installation and build a Extranet through the presentation. At the end of the tutorial; participants will have a working Plone powered extranet.

1PM

Hands On: Building a Deployment System

Alan Runyan or Sidnei da Silva

Entransit is a open source deployment system whose aim is simple: deploy content from Zope/Plone to a remote machine which will then be transformed into RDBMS records and XML on the filesystem - transactionally!

Use the deployed content in PHP/Java/Perl/ASP.NET/Python.

Working reference implementations in PHP/Java/Python will be provided.

This talk may be split with CMFDeployment, another deployment strategy/product

Track 2

start topic
9AM

Best Practices: Plone Development

Presenter: Joel Burton

This tutorial covers the techniques you need to become a professional web site developer: building Plone site using filesystem development, using version control with Plone, debugging, writing test cases, and more. Case studies of real site development will be covered.

1PM

Hands On: Working with Plone's Layouts and User Interface Design Guidelines

Alexander Limi

Tips and Tricks on skinning a Plone site and building User Interfaces for your applications. Basic CSS knowledge recommended. Let Alexander Limi guide you through skinning Plone and introducing participants to key usability guidelines. Avoid confusing usability mistakes.