Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook is a new book on plone development from Packt publishing open source. After receiving it, I decided to take a quick  glance to it. The book features 364 pages, which makes it quite a big book for its price, organized in a cookbook approach, making it a very useful book.

Though the book is not written in a clasical style, because of its cookbook approach, there’s a progression in the recipes, as we can notice in the index:

• Chapter 1, Getting Started
• Chapter 2, Using Development Tools
• Chapter 3, Creating Content Types with ArchGenXML
• Chapter 4, Prevent Bugs through Testing
• Chapter 5, Creating a Custom Content Type with Paster
• Chapter 6, Creating Lightweight Content Types
• Chapter 7, Improving Product Performance
• Chapter 8, Internationalization
• Chapter 9, Adding Security to your Products
• Chapter 10, Improving User Interface with KSS
• Chapter 11, Creating Portlets
• Chapter 12, Extending Third-Party Products
• Chapter 13, Interacting with other Systems: XML-RPC
• Chapter 14, Getting our Products ready for Production

As you can notice from chapter titles there’s a progression we can follow through the book.But thanks to the cookbook approach we can easily find the recipe we need and use it. Note that it’s advisable to have knowledge on Plone, as the book doesn’t stops on explaining the basic concepts.

Don’t misunderstand this, the book is very thorough, it starts with the installation process, in Linux and Windows. The book is also very well explained, but basic knowledge is advisable so you can make the most from the book, as it’s not a beginners book.

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Last week, CMS Report received an email regarding a new CMS that focuses on managing multimedia content. The application is written in Python so naturally we’re going to talk to let our readers know about this new platform.

I’m not sure if you guys have covered this yet, but as a regular reader of cmsreport.com I thought I would let you know.
Earlier this month my company launched a new Open Source python based CMS focused on video and podcasting.

http://getmediacore.com/

MediaCore is a free open source video cms and podcast platform.  MediaCore can pull video or audio from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.

Let me know if you guys need any further information on the project. Right now we are just trying to get the word out about it.

Cheers,
Stuart

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Plone that helps website creators maintain, manage and edit educational websites. Written by Erik Rose, a member of the Plone 4 and 5 Framework Teams, Plone 3 for Education will help website creators represent educational courses using Plone’s various built-in content types such as news items, collections, and events.

Plone is a free open source Content Management System (CMS) that’s built on top of the Zope application server. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information for a public website or an intranet using only a web browser. It is because of its superior security and advanced back-end, that it holds a technological edge over many major CMSes.

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