Plone: The CMS that hits above it's weight

The CMS that hits above its weightJuly 2011

HOW TO BUILD A WEBSITE?

Site building optionsEasy to update

Learn to develop

Flexible

Reuse 0

5HTML

Scripting (PHP, ASP etc)

LWF (Rails, django etc)

CMS (Plone, drupal)

SaaS (SquareSpace etc)

WHAT DOES A CMS LOOK LIKE?

DEMOhttp://ploud.nethttp://plone.org/products/plonetheme.earthlingtwo

PLONE VS. …

Why is Plone popular with big not small sites?

WHO USES PLONE?

Intranets

HOW DO I GET A PLONE SITE?

Self Host

Commercial Service Providers

SaaS

WHY PYTHON?

Python …

• Fast to write• Easy to maintain• Runs on anything• Can be optimised with C• Connects to anything• Secure• Popular…

WHERE’S THE DATABASE?

Zope Object Database

class User(Persistent): pass

dbroot = conn.root()# Ensure that a 'userdb' key is present# in the rootif not dbroot.has_key('userdb'): from BTrees.OOBTree import OOBTree dbroot['userdb'] = OOBTree()

userdb = dbroot['userdb']

# Create new User instancenewuser = User()

# Add whatever attributes you want to tracknewuser.id = 'amk'newuser.first_name = 'Andrew' ; newuser.last_name = 'Kuchling'...

# Add object to the BTree, keyed on the IDuserdb[newuser.id] = newuser

# Commit the changetransaction.commit()

storage = FileStorage.FileStorage(’db.fs')db = DB(storage)conn = db.open()

ZODB makes complex structures easyhttp://david.wglick.org/2009/visualizing-the-zodb-with-graphviz

DOES PLONE SCALE?

RelStorage: Speed & Replication

IS IT SECURE?

Plone Security Record (3Y)• Plone/Zope/Python stack:

– CVE Entries containing Plone: 13 (9)– CVE Entries containing Zope: 27 (9)– CVE Entries containing Python: 111 (65)

• PHP-based stacks:– CVE Entries containing Drupal: 371 (269)– CVE Entries containing Joomla: 653 (441)– CVE Entries containing MySQL: 282 (84)– CVE Entries containing Postgre: 82 (22)

• Other stacks:– CVE Entries containing Perl: 3,835 (1,780)

http://plone.org/products/plone/security

@LulzSec

VS.

HOW DO I MAKE IT LOOK COOL?

diazo

WHO IS PLONE?

WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF PLONE?

CMSUI & Deco

Chameleon

HOW DO I GET SUPPORT?

DYLAN JAYcontact@pretaweb.com http://www.pretaweb.com