Agenda

Day One: Advanced Content Management Development

• Advanced Archetypes
• SQLStorage and External Storage
• Custom fields and widgets
• Custom validators
• Marshallers and ExternalEditor
• Advanced Workflow
• Security tips for workflow
• Performing actions on transitions
• Scripting workflow
• Security
• Building private sites
• Protecting site areas
• Integrating security into your scripts and applications

Day Two: Developer Best Practices

• Filesystem Development
• Storing skins and scripts on disk
• Creating setup systems for products
• Create sample content / importing content
• Advanced Debugging
• Understanding Zope/Plone tracebacks
• Advanced debugging with WingIDE
• Using pdb with Plone
• Advanced Searching/Sorting with the Catalog
• Using the catalog effectively
• Advanced index types and add-on indexes

Day Three: Techniques & the Road Ahead

• Performance
• Performance tips for Plone applications
• Using Plone's caching features & CacheFu
• Leveraging ZEO for scalability
• Testing
• Writing functional tests with Zelenium
• Writing unit tests for applications
• Best practices for testing and Plone
• Relational Databases
• Advanced techniques for ZSQL methods
• Tips on building reldb-backed applications
  
• The Road Ahead
• Leveraging Zope 3 technologies in Plone