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Plone vs The New Guy The Initial Struggles of a Beginning Plone Developer

Plone vs The New Guy The Initial Struggles of a Beginning Plone Developer. John Hren University Wisconsin - Oshkosh. The Point of the Presentation. Help new people (people newer than me) learn more efficiently G ive those who train new people some ideas on how to teach Plone

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Plone vs The New Guy The Initial Struggles of a Beginning Plone Developer

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  1. Plonevs The New GuyThe Initial Struggles of a Beginning Plone Developer John Hren University Wisconsin - Oshkosh

  2. The Point of the Presentation • Help new people (people newer than me) learn more efficiently • Give those who train new people some ideas on how to teach Plone • Add some new thought as to what should be put in training material • Show the steps I went through to create and implement the Time Conflict Card Product

  3. Why Am I The New Guy • 20 years in Distribution as a Manager, Quality Director, Buyer, Branch Manager • Laid off in 2008 • Went back to school at UW-Oshkosh in 2009 • Majored in Computer Science • Graduated May 2011 • Started work at UW-Oshkosh June 2011

  4. Why is Plone, Plone • CMS (content management system) • Python • Object orientated database • TAL Expressions? Otherwise known as a “Simple TAL Expression” • Buildout and Bootstrap.py • Theming • ZOPE • Which leads to………

  5. A Pretty Steep Learning Curve/Cliff/Wall

  6. What’s In My Quiver When I Started? • A Canadian (Kim Nguyen) • UW-Oshkosh Development Staff • Some Plone experience with OIE • Google • Professional Plone Development 4 by Martin Aspeli • Plone.org • Which makes the Score about……

  7. Plone 31 and John 0 But the good thing was, I did have a lot of help and the game was just starting.

  8. My Initial Job Duties • Learn • Help Kim implement Intranet • Add new ideas • Turn forms into products • Try not to get in the way • Say nice things about Canada

  9. How I Learned • http://plone.org/ • http://zope.org/ • http://www.python.org/ • http://readthedocs.org/docs/collective-docs/en/latest/ • https://ploud.com/index.html • Professional Plone 4 Development by Martin Aspeli

  10. More Learning • http://www.buildout.org/ • http://wiki.zope.org/ZPT/SimpleTutorial TAL info • http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/ • http://www.zodb.org/ • http://docs.diazo.org/en/latest/introduction.htm • http://plone.org/products/dexterity/documentation/manual/developer-manual

  11. Even More Learning • Classes • Conferences • Stack Overflow • Chat Room • Sprints • User Groups • Tune Up Days • Polk Library and their ebooks (www.uwosh.edu/library)

  12. Remember Though, There is so much documentation out there that getting off track is easy. My experience though is don’t ask a question without trying to figure out the answer on your own first

  13. A Quick Note To Help Document Creators • Thank you for your input • Indexes • Reference notes • Definition of Terms • Don’t assume, write to your audience

  14. A Quick Example

  15. Drupal’s Learning Page

  16. A Quick Note About IDE’s • Have a favorite • Use it to check in/out code to your repository • Sublime Text 2

  17. The Time Conflict Card Product

  18. Intranet Task Force Says, “Pick a Form.” • Study was done to determine possible choices for biggest impact • Needed a form that would hit all cross sections of the campus, Instructors/Staff/Students • Add/Drop/Time Conflict Card • Initiated by Students, signed off by Instructors, entered by Staff, Great Choice!

  19. What is a Add/Drop/Time Conflict Card?

  20. Meeting With The Registrar • What constitutes an approval • Sometimes instructors sign off other times departments sign off • Legal claims • Signing off on class limit and requisites • Comments • Security • One last question….

  21. WHAT DID WE GET OURSELVES INTO??!!??!!

  22. Decision Time • Start with Time Conflict Card • Lightly used • Design Functionality will be used in both Add and Drop cards • Testing could be managed easier • Transitions = Approval

  23. Design Problems • Instructors should only see the cards they need to sign off on • Needs to be user friendly interface • Comments need to be easily accessible • Notification system • Can’t let cards sit to long • Complicated Workflow

  24. Tools • PloneFormGen • Northstar • Workflow Manager • Collective.easytemplate • JQuery

  25. PloneFormGen

  26. Making The Form

  27. Generating the Product

  28. The Product is Generated • The product will be downloaded into your download file. • It then needs to be moved to your src file

  29. Don’t Forget to Install Your Product

  30. Here is Your Product

  31. Workflow Manager

  32. Workflow State

  33. Workflow Transition

  34. Sanity Check

  35. Diagram

  36. Create and Manage a Card

  37. Start a New Time Conflict Card

  38. The Top of the Card

  39. The Bottom of the Card

  40. Filling The Card Out

  41. Filling Out the Card

  42. Submitting

  43. The Code • Jquery • Collective.easy.template • Content.py • View.pt

  44. Thank you for listening!John HrenUniversity Wisconsin - Oshkoshhrenj@uwosh.edu

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