Practical Plone 3: A Beginner's Guide to Building Powerful Websites
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About the Authors

Alex Clark is a Plone Consultant from Bethesda, MD, USA. He runs a thriving Plone consultancy along with his wife, Amy Clark. Together, they service a wide variety of government, corporate, and non-profit organizations in the greater Washington, D.C., area and worldwide. For more information, please see http://aclark.net. This is his first book and he hopes that people enjoy the result and are inspired to use Plone!

I'd like to thank my wife Amy for her tireless efforts in supporting my Plone career, and the Plone, Zope, and Python communities for being so amazingly supportive and inspiring.

Clayton Parker has been creating dynamic websites using Plone since 2004. He started out at Six Feet Up, Inc. as a Systems Administrator, which gives him an interesting take on Plone deployment. In 2007, Clayton started using zc.buildout to manage and deploy Six Feet Up's Plone sites. As a Senior Developer at Six Feet Up, he has created and contributed to buildout recipes in use by the Community.

Darci Hanning has a BSEE from Washington State University (Pullman) and received her MLIS from the University of Washington. She brings over 15 years of software and web application development experience to her position as Technology Development Consultant at the Oregon State Library. For the past three years she has been using Plone to create and deploy dynamic, easy-to-maintain websites for small libraries in Oregon. Since Spring 2006, she has been providing technical leadership for the Plinkit Collaborative, a multi-state cooperative, to deploy Plinkit in Colorado, Illinois, and Texas. She has presented on both Plone and Plinkit at national and international conferences, recently served as President of the Plone Foundation Board, and was selected as a "2008 Mover and Shaker" by Library Journal.

I would like to thank the Plone community at large for their ongoing support of Plinkit and the management team of the Oregon State Library for their enthusiastic support of my Plone-related endeavors. Without their support I would not have been able to participate in this community-driven project.

David Convent contributed several times to the Plone documentation effort with tutorials and how-tos covering the main themeing techniques. He developed DIYPloneStyle, a product and tool that helps theme developers to get started with basic generated code. The effort that was started with DIYPloneStyle is now merged in the themeing templates of ZopeSkel, which he maintains. David is currently employed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. He's been working there for the MARS (Multimedia Archaeologichal Research System) project, a collaborative system based on Plone that is designed for Archaeologists and Anthropologists, and is now helping the web team at the institute.

I'd like to thank Veda Williams for her kind help. I doubt I could have finished the work without her support and contributions.

John DeStefano has accrued over 10 years' worth of experience in writing technical information and working with web-based technology. He has written documentation and technical training material for commercial and open-source products, including Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash, Microsoft Visual Studio and Windows Server; web programming languages, including ASP.NET, SQL, and XML; and technical certification, including Network+ and Oracle Database.

John has been rolling out, administering, and hacking (his own) Plone sites since 2006, and has contributed information and technical edits to the vast store of documentation on Plone's website.

John resides in Long Island, New York, with his wife, Jody, and their four children: Benjamin, Zachary, Sophia, and Jacob. He is currently a technical engineer in the Physics department at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Jon Stahl is the Director of Web Solutions at ONE/Northwest, in Seattle, Washington, USA. He has over thirteen years of experience in technology consulting for nonprofit organizations, and leads a team of Plone consultants who have collectively launched several hundred Plone-powered sites for environmental organizations. Jon serves on the Plone Foundation board of directors, and is an active leader in the Plone community. His blog is at http://blogs.onenw.org/jon.

Martin Aspeli is an experienced Plone consultant and prolific Plone contributor. He served on the Framework Team for Plone 3.0, and is responsible for many new features, such as the improved portlets infrastructure, the "content rules" engine, and several R&D efforts relating to Plone 4.0. He is a former leader of the Plone Documentation Team, and has written a number of well-received tutorials that are available on plone.org. He is also the author of Professional Plone Development, and was recognized in 2008 by Packt Publishing as one of the "Most Valuable People" in open source content management systems.

Matt Bowen is a web developer for a Public Relations firm in Washington, D. C. Matt has a keen interest in helping non-technical people to share their knowledge over the web, and uses Plone to empower them to do so.

I'm extremely grateful to the Plone community, and especially the members of my local Plone user's group, ZPUGDC; without the community, I'd have never learned enough to contribute to this book, nor would any of us feel passionate enough to do so. From the larger community came our organizers (Martin and Veda) and our many reviewers, who made this practically possible. Finally, I relied on my family (mom, dad, and little brother) for their encouragement, and Laura Worthington for support and plenty of help in getting the wording right.

Ricardo Newbery is a web applications developer and consultant with over fifteen years of experience working with Internet technologies. A former physics researcher supporting the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Division of the U.S. Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center (NCOSC NRaD), Ricardo also taught Physics and Information Systems college courses for over ten years before chucking it all in recently, to move to beautiful Central Oregon and focus on developing his own consultancy (http://digitalmarbles.com) while mule deer and quail loiter outside his office window.

A member of the Plone community since 2004, much of Ricardo's current consulting work involves customizing Plone installations and optimizing high-performance web applications. Ricardo is the current release manager for CacheFu, a Plone add-on product used to help accelerate Plone web sites.

I want to thank Tammy Tatum for her advice and for proofreading my ramblings; and Miles Newbery for letting me read aloud my drafts instead of Green Eggs and Ham and making a good show of being impressed for a five year old.

I also want to thank Martin Aspeli for coming up with the idea for this book; John Stahl and Erik Rose for reviewing my drafts and coming up with some great suggestions; Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan for coming up with Plone in the first place; Geoff Davis for starting the CacheFu project; the Squid and Varnish proxy developers for helping me to work out how to simplify the presentation of complex cache behavior; and finally, the many contributors to CacheFu who have helped to make my job so much easier.

Sam Knox hails from Seattle, Washington where he works as the Support Manager for ONE/Northwest—a consulting group focused on helping environmental non- profits adopt and effectively use online technology. ONE/Northwest has served hundreds of organizations in the Pacific Northwest and beyond over the past 12 years. Sam regularly conducts Plone trainings and writes end-user documentation for a wide variety of audiences and skill levels. He also is primarily responsible for the highly successful online Plone documentation website, LearnPlone.Org.

I would like to thank my friends and colleagues at ONE/Northwest for their support, and the Plone community at large for creating the best Content Management System available today.

Steve McMahon lives in Davis, California, where he's a partner in Reid-McMahon, LLC, a web-development partnership specializing in developing Plone-based web sites for non-profit organizations.

Steve is currently the maintainer for the Plone Unified Installer and the OS X installer. He's the developer of the popular PloneFormGen add-on, and is the current release manager for the Plone Help Center. He was elected to the Plone Foundation Board of Directors in 2007 and 2008 and has served as Foundation secretary.

Tom Conklin is an Information Technology manager for a manufacturing company in the Syracuse. New York metro area. Tom has a keen interest in building business solutions in a way that makes IT transparent to the end users.

I want to thank my wife and kids for having the patience during the times when I latch on to a technology solution that I truly believe in. Over the past few years, Plone and Asterisk® (the Open Source IP PBX phone system) have captured my attention and imagination with regard to what is possible in solving everyday business problems. I also want to thank the Open Source community. The power of many dedicated people working towards superior solutions creates an environment of continual improvements, and no limits toward striving for a better way to solve a problem.

Veda Williams has worked in software development for 18 years, and as a Plone skinner for 3 of those years. She currently works for ONE/Northwest in Seattle, Washington. Veda is an editor for the documentation section of plone.org, and in addition to this book, she is writing a book on theming for Plone, due out in Spring 2009.

I would like to thank my colleagues, David Glick and Andrew Burkhalter, for filling in my knowledge gaps and providing generous assistance in reviewing my chapters; David Convent for his attention to detail; Rob Miller, for allowing me to borrow some of his material on GenericSetup; and our reviewers and authors who stepped in at the last minute to make this book happen.

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