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The Definitive Guide to Plone Published
Andy McKay has finally published the long awaited "Definitive Guide to Plone."
The Definitive Guide to Plone is the authoritative, unique guide to Plone, describing everything from installing Plone (on OSX, Windows, and Linux) to writing code for the system. The book, part of the Apress library of Python programming and content management tools, and written by Andy McKay, a member of Plone's core development team, emphasizes the customization of Plone, and shows how to fully-integrate Plone into an existing Web site and application. If you want to adopt Plone for some or all of its features, this is the book to pick up and learn by.
Andy McKay is a principal of the windows-centric Plone software firm, Enfold Systems, LLC which is focused on richer integration of Windows components with Plone. Andy also runs ZopeZen and maintains the Plone Windows installer as well as serving as Plone's release manager.
Good book but...
The chapter on Archetpyes is sadly short. (Esp since Archetypes is not the most well documented thing anyways). The rest of the box (including the profile chapter) are fairly good.
Ditto for Topics
Topics are also treated lightly, with only 2/3 of a page in chapter 3. I suspect there is some useful information in chapter 11, but they aren't referred to directly there.
Missing Link
Congratulations to Andy - this is a great book and a must-have for newbies like myself trying to scale the Zope/Plone learning curve.
Working on Advanced Plone now, Andy :)?
Great for starting out
I wish that I had this 2 mos. ago, when I started work on Plone. Quite a bit of what's in the book now seems familiar (my having originally learned it by all too frequent trips to the HOWTO section of plone.org). Still, even those sections are a good read, as a reality check.
Yes, it is a good book
Complements to Andy, as it is a good book indeed. One of the rather big shortcomings of Plone is the documentation. Every time i have to search for quite a bit, often to find out that what i wanted to do was not hard in the first place. This book solves some of that. I think it helps give Plone the place it deserves. Ad Weterings