Plone is a powerful tool for managing content. Sometimes, though, it may feel like you are putting a square peg in a round hole to solve a problem with Plone. Certain tasks, such as eCommerce and personalization, aren't a good fit when deploying a Plone site. Why work against Plone when you can take advantage of its nativepower? Learn how Plone can integrate with other front-ends that may be more suited to serving personalized or static content. Merge your Plone managed content with existing infrastructure and provide content contributors with the tools they need.

1. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Adding Super Powers to
Plone
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2. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
or
Use the Right Tool for the
Right Job
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3. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Why do we use Plone?
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4. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Content Management System First
• Powerful Workflow tools
• WYSIWYG tools for editing
• WebDAV and FTP built in for managing
content
• SmartFolders
• Versioning, Staging and Locking
• Support for Word and PDF document
indexing
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5. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Membership Management
• OpenID support
• Fine grained Security Permissions
• Users and Groups Administration
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6. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Content Delivery
• Plone is slow (it does a lot for us)
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7. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Content Delivery
7,462
7,500
5,625
3,750
1,875
750
227
8
0
Plone Zope Apache Nginx
requests/second
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8. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Solutions
• CMFDeployment
• Entransit
• Deliverance
• CacheFu
• Squid
• Varnish
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9. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Why do make Plone do
unnatural things?
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10. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Highly Interactive Sites
• Twitter-like Web 2.0
• High Level of Social Interaction
• Visitor Generated Content
• Tracking Visitor Downloads and Interaction
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11. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Get Agile
• Zope 2 or 3
• Grok
• Pylons
• Django
• Ruby on Rails
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12. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
eCommerce
• Long running issue
• Many solutions, but none that great yet
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13. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Solutions
• Commercial Cart Applications
• osCommerce
• Roll your own
• Pylons
• Ruby on Rails
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14. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
No Plone, How do we find
things?
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15. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Enhanced Search Engines
• Xapian
• Lucene
• Google Search Appliances
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16. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Get the Word Out
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17. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Mailing List
• ExactTarget
• Constant Contact
• VerticalResponse
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18. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Other Software as a Service
• Salesforce.com
• NetSuite
• SurveyWorld
• SurveyMonkey.com
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19. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Relational Data
• OODBMS is great
• Except if the data is highly relational
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20. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Solutions
• Zope DB Adapters
• Other frameworks
• Zope 3
• Pylons
• Rails
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21. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Large Files
• Video
• Audio
• PDFs
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22. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Solutions
• Streaming Media Servers
• Tramline
• Filesystem Storage
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23. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Where is the all heading?
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24. Add Super Powers to Plone - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Questions?
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