A talk introducing PloneIDE, where it comes from, and where can be taken. The main reason for this talk is to encourage people to help develop it.

1. PloneIDE
An IDE for plonistas by plonistas
Franco Pellegrini
frapell@ravvit.net

2. About Me
● From Córdoba, Argentina.
● Python developer for the past 8 years.
● Plone developer for the past 6 years.
● (kind of) active member of several FLOSS communities:
● GrULIC
● PyAR
● Plone
● Plone-conosur
● Plone-es
● Author or active contributor on some 3rd party products:
● Products.ATSuccessStory ● collective.facebook.accounts
● Collective.newsflash ● collective.facebook.portlets
● collective.contacts ● collective.polls
● collective.twitter.accounts ● collective.prettydate
● collective.twitter.portlets ● collective.weather

3. About Me
● My first 5 years in Plone were made in “Menttes”.
● On January 2012 founded “Ravvit”.

4. History
● The idea started in my head around 4 years ago.
● Based on the necessity of having better tools to help in the day-to-day job.
● Alternatives:
● Editor + Terminal
● Emacs + PDB
● Eclipse
● Netbeans
● WingIDE

5. Problems
● Amount of windows to keep track of.
● Time needed in order to get everything set-up per project.
● System resources.
● Speed.
● Sessions.
● Finding help.

6. Problems
● A lot of products for developers:
● plone.reload
● sauna.reload
● iw.debug
● Products.PDBDebugMode
● plone.app.debugtoolbar
●
collective.catalogcleanup
● PEP8 checkers
● PyFlakes
● Etc...

7. Bespin
A light of hope
● Code editor written entirely in Javascript
● Maybe I can create an IDE exclusively for Plone that runs on top of Plone.
● Advantages:
● No need ot keep track of so many windows
● Can access live code.
● Configuration time, almost none.
● It could allow remote coding.

8. Bespin
Too good to be true
Speed

9. History
Bespin Skywriter Ace
I started to develop collective.ploneide as a proof of concept

10. Live Demo
(The fun part)

11. The Future

12. The Future
More Python tools:
● Introspection

15. The Future
More Python tools:
● Introspection
● Code completion
● Navigation tree

16. The Future
More Plone tools:
● Paster integration
● “Frontends” for XML and ZCML
● Wizards for creating new content
● Code snippets

20. The Future
More Plone tools:
● Paster integration
● “Frontends” for XML and ZCML
● Wizards for creating new content
● Code snippets
● Syntax check for PT, ZCML
● Get useful info, like registered interfaces, views,
permissions, CT information, etc.
● Create catalog queries
● Remote coding ?

21. The Future
More “General coding” tools:
● Advanced search inside the PYTHONPATH.
● Rename across the project.
● SVN, GIT, etc integration

22. Motivation for this talk
Help me push it forward !

23. Clone it
git@github.com:collective/collective.ploneide.git

24. Questions ?

25. Thank you !
Franco Pellegrini
frapell@ravvit.net
“frapell” in #plone #plone-conosur #plone-es (Freenode)
@frapell