Django -> Plone: Portlets, Viewlets, Zcatalog, Aspects
[Another in a series of posts about moving from Django to Plone. I’m a Plone/Zope newbie writing about my bafflements and enlightenments as they happen. Some of my opinions are certainly wrong. I’m...
View ArticleDjango -> Plone: Things that make me go, Hmmmm.
[This continues from my previous post about my Django-to-Plone odyssey. My first post in the series explains why I’m learning Plone, and the caveats that apply.] For your enlightenment or amusement,...
View ArticleThe Zope Book
I’ve finished reading The Zope Book (2.6 edition). Although understanding of Zope 2 is nowhere near as complete as my understanding of Django, I at least now understand how to create and administer a...
View ArticleDjango -> Plone: Light Bulbs, differences, irks
[This continues from my first post about my Django-to-Plone odyssey.] I now understand more of Plone‘s underlying concepts. I can’t yet create a non-trivial Plone site from scratch in a reasonable...
View ArticleMoving from Django to Plone
This is the first of what might be a series of posts about learning Plone. I’ve worked in Django since January 2006, when Joe Heck, Karen Williams, and I built the now-defunct TrenchMice site. I...
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