Building robust, content-centric web applications with Plone 3, an open source Content Management System. Customizing Plone Plone development fundamentals Develop new distribution function of the real world In Detail Plone is an open-source content management framework, built on the Zope application server and written in Python. This book focuses primarily on the developer-oriented aspect of Plone. What you will learn from this book? You will gain a deep understanding of concepts that support the successful development of Plone, including: How to set up a development environment, according to The Importance of automated testing of any code you write How to do the customization of Plone, managed fashion techniques that can be reused for branding Plone and change the look and feel of How to safely install and manage third-party add-on component mode make the kind of its own content How to create new forms and templates How to interact with relational databases external technique to manage users and metadata for custom user using the new framework Plone's AJAX to build dynamic user interfaces How to set up Zope and Plone in a production environment How to connect to LDAP / Active Directory repository for authentication How to configure proxy caching to improve Plone's performance Throughout the chapter, there is an emphasis on key concepts show with practical examples. The code for this application included with the book, and should serve as a useful starting point and source of examples for the reader. Who is this book written for? This book is intended for developers who want to build content-centric web application shown to increase the Plone user interface and flexible infrastructure. Some familiarity with the Python programming language and basic web technologies like HTML and CSS is assumed.