WebLion http://weblion.psu.edu These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 7. Managing Agile Plone Projects http://weblion.psu.edu/news/managing-agile-plone-projects Sally's has been active in the Plone community for years developing, training and consulting for Jazkarta. Her interests and experience include data and content management, information retrieval, computer aided design, environmental conservation, scientific visualization, and GIS. She has a Ph.D. in biology and loves creating Plone applications that make scientists more productive. The scenario:

All the pieces have fallen into place for that big website project. You've chosen Plone, you've lined up the budget, you've gathered a team of developers, you've selected a design firm. You've worked with all the stakeholders and come up with a long list of features. Plone and its add-ons will provide many of them, but some will need custom development. How are you going to manage the project?

You know written requirements "thrown over the wall" can lead to trouble. You've heard about agile-development and you like the idea of iterations and adapting to change. But how can you use agile techniques with a part time team and a project that is part design, part development, and all within a feature-rich CMS environment?

This one day course will show you how. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and group exercises, you will learn an agile approach to managing a Plone development project.

The class will cover:
- Roles
- Discovery
- Scheduling
- Release planning
- Writing user stories
- Estimation
- Iteration planning
- Defining custom content types
- Integrating designers into the process
- Project management tools

The value of the techniques you will learn are very clear to stakeholders. They get full ownership of the project, choosing exactly what it will deliver at every step along the way, and getting the system they envisioned at the end.

Audience

Managers, team leaders, project managers, anyone responsible for a CMS development project.

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with content management systems.

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Check out the other Training Workshops that are available at Plone Symposium East 2012:

Getting Off the Ground with Plone - Cris Ewing - May 20, 21

Python Fundamentals - Chris Calloway - May 19, 20, 21

Theming Plone 4 - Chrissy WainWright - May 20, 21

Creating Plone Content Types with Dexterity - Steve McMahon - May 20, 21

 

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]]> No publisher Mike Halm for plone edu for planet plone twitterfeed: symposium plonesymposiumeast2012 twitterfeed: weblion events 2012-03-27T12:00:00Z News Item Dexterity Offers Great New Feature to Plone http://weblion.psu.edu/news/dexterity-offers-great-new-feature-to-plone Join Steve McMahon in learning about how Dexterity will make content-type development in Plone 4 much easier. Steve McMahon has been working on core Plone development for years and is recognized as one of it lead developers.  His FormGen product is widely recognized as one of the finest Plone plug-ins. Join Steve in learning all the basics about Dexterity and how it can save you time in your development efforts.

Description

Creating new content types in Plone is easier than ever. Dexterity, Plone's new content-type development framework, allows you to create content types through-the-web, in add-on products, or even to move back and forth between the two. Dexterity will be built into Plone 4.3+, but is ready to use now in Plone 4 (or 3.3.5). The course will focus on practical use of Dexterity, with just enough theory and history to help students understand how Dexterity fits into Plone.

Topics Covered

  • Installing Dexterity for use in Plone 3.3.5 or 4.x.
  • Creating new content types through the web or by schemas in Python.
  • Dexterity field types, widgets and behaviors.
  • Making add-on products to deploy Dexterity content types.
  • Adding custom validators, methods and properties via Python.
  • Creating custom views of content.
  • Implementing containment and references.
  • Custom security and workflow for content types and fields.
  • Schemas, models, the roles of the Zope Component Architecture and Grok.
  • When Dexterity is practical, and when it's not.

The class will combine lecture and exercises.

Audience

Integrators or programmers who wish to develop new content types for Plone.

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of the functionality of Plone and its built-in content types. Basic knowledge of Python, HTML and XML. Ability to work in a command-line environment on your platform of choice.

 

More

 

Check out the other Training Workshops that are available at Plone Symposium East 2012:

Getting Off the Ground with Plone - Cris Ewing - May 20, 21

Managing Agile Plone Projects - Sally Kleinfeldt - May 21

Python Fundamentals - Chris Calloway - May 19, 20, 21

Theming Plone 4 - Chrissy WainWright - May 20, 21

Register for PSE12 too!

 

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]]> No publisher Mike Halm for plone edu training for planet plone twitterfeed: symposium plonesymposiumeast2012 2012-03-15T12:00:00Z News Item Getting Off the Ground with Plone http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/training/getting-off-the-ground-with-plone-1 So you've heard about Plone, this smart, secure and powerful content management system and you'd like to get started. Where to begin? This training course is for you. You'll learn the best way to install Plone, how to create your first website and get started adding content, how to get quick, simple victories for your new project, and how to turn those quick victories into re-usable products you can deploy in minutes. The first day of teaching will focus on working in a web browser, and the second day will move to creating installable packages on the filesystem. Audience

This course is intended for first-time Plone users who are interested in managing and modifying Plone sites using best-practice techniques.

Prerequisites

To successfully participate in this course, attendees will need to be able to use a web browser, a text editor (not a word processor) and know how to access the command prompt for their operating system. Knowing some HTML, XML or Python can be helpful, but is by no means required. Attendees should be adventurous and ready to learn new skills.

 

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]]> No publisher Rob Porter plonesymposiumeast2012 twitterfeed: symposium 2012-02-22T23:25:00Z Event Managing Agile Plone Projects http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/training/managing-agile-plone-projects All the pieces have fallen into place for that big website project. You've chosen Plone, you've lined up the budget, you've gathered a team of developers, you've selected a design firm. You've worked with all the stakeholders and come up with a long list of features. Plone and its add-ons will provide many of them, but some will need custom development. How are you going to manage the project? You know written requirements "thrown over the wall" can lead to trouble. You've heard about agile development and you like the idea of iterations and adapting to change. But how can you use agile techniques with a part time team and a project that is part design, part development, and all within a feature-rich CMS environment?

This one day course will show you how. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and group exercises, you will learn an agile approach to managing a Plone development project.

The class will cover:
- Roles
- Discovery
- Scheduling
- Release planning
- Writing user stories
- Estimation
- Iteration planning
- Defining custom content types
- Integrating designers into the process
- Project management tools

The value of the techniques you will learn are very clear to stakeholders. They get full ownership of the project, choosing exactly what it will deliver at every step along the way, and getting the system they envisioned at the end.

Audience

Managers, team leaders, project managers, anyone responsible for a CMS development project.

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with content management systems.

 

Register Now

]]> No publisher Rob Porter plonesymposiumeast2012 twitterfeed: symposium 2012-02-22T23:15:00Z Event Python Fundamentals http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/training/python-fundamentals Learn the rudiments of Python in three days. This class is highly interactive and you will learn by doing. After this class you will be able to understand Python expressions and statements used in Plone. This class is an abbreviated and condensed version of the week-long PyCamp. Audience

System administrators, Themers, Integrators.

Prerequisites

  • Know how to use a text editor (not a word processor, but a text editor)
  • Know how to issue a change directory command at your operating system prompt
  • Know what an environment variable of your operating system is
  • Know what a PATH environment variable does for your operating system
  • Know how to edit your operating system's PATH environment variable
  • Know how to use a browser to download a file
  • Know how to run a program installer

 

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]]> No publisher Rob Porter plonesymposiumeast2012 twitterfeed: symposium 2012-02-22T23:10:00Z Event Creating Plone Content Types with Dexterity http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/training/creating-plone-content-types-with-dexterity Creating new content types in Plone is easier than ever. Dexterity, Plone's new content-type development framework, allows you to create content types through-the-web, in add-on products, or even to move back and forth between the two. Dexterity will be built into Plone 4.3, but is ready to use now. The course will focus on practical use of Dexterity, with just enough theory and history to help students understand how Dexterity fits into Plone. Topics Covered

  • Installing Dexterity for use in Plone 4.x.
  • Creating new content types through the web or by schemas in Python.
  • Dexterity field types, widgets and behaviors.
  • Making add-on products to deploy Dexterity content types.
  • Adding custom validators, methods and properties via Python.
  • Creating custom views of content.
  • Implementing containment and references.
  • Custom security and workflow for content types and fields.
  • Schemas, models, the roles of the Zope Component Architecture and Grok.
  • When Dexterity is practical, and when it's not.


The class will combine lecture and exercises.

Audience

Integrators or programmers who wish to develop new content types for Plone.

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of the functionality of Plone and its built-in content types. Basic knowledge of Python, HTML and XML. Ability to work in a command-line environment on your platform of choice.

Register Now

]]> No publisher Rob Porter plonesymposiumeast2012 twitterfeed: symposium 2012-02-22T22:20:00Z Event Theming Plone 4 http://weblion.psu.edu/symposium/training/theming-plone-4 This training session includes front-end template development of a Plone 4 site from start to finish using Diazo along with traditional theming. The training will be a hands-on walkthrough of the process, using a pre-created sample design. Attendees will need their computers and will be expected to follow along on their own Plone instances. It will be split into two days: Basic and Advanced. Attendees will have the choice to sign up for only the basic day or for both days. Day 1: Basic

Goal: become familiar with a Plone theme and learn how to edit the appropriate files for customizing a Plone site.

* Theming with Diazo - writing rules to hook up Plone to a static theme
* ZMI overview, Generic Setup
* Changing site styles, CSS Registry
* Overriding default Plone templates
* Using the custom folder

Day 2: Advanced
---------------

Goal: Learn advanced theming techniques that will allow your site to use Plone templates and dynamic content to their full potential.

This day will focus more on traditional theming methods and techniques for power users. Material may be overwhelming for those new to Plone development or computer languages.

* TAL (template attribute language for Zope page templates)
* Viewlets and portlets: overriding, moving, and creating
* Creating new templates for use on specific pages or content types
* Advanced Diazo rules
* Creating an uninstall profile
* Using paster, base themes

Audience

* web designers
* Plone developers wanting to expand their knowledge
* anyone who would like to learn how to build a theme or customize templates for a Plone site

Prerequisites

* knowledge of HTML/CSS (these will not be covered during the training)
* For the Basic Training: basic familiarity of Plone
* For the Advanced Training: understanding of Plone inner-workings. Knowledge of a computer language will also be beneficial, but it not required.

 


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]]> No publisher Rob Porter plonesymposiumeast2012 twitterfeed: symposium 2012-02-22T22:10:00Z Event