Today was my Plone day. I was at the Plone Tour 2006 organized by Redomino here in Milan.
Since I’ve never used Plone in my whole life I felt myself like a total newbie but I was quite impressed by the simplicity of the overall.
The key thing (one of the many to be honest) is the learning curve that is definitely not steep. You don’t have to master everything to get started and you get a lot of things for free (like authentication and authorization, internationalization, standard compliancy, RSS, live search and so on).
The platform and website are entirely customizable inside out so you, my fellow Pythonista, can do really everything.
With the tons of available (and modifiable thanks to the free software philosophy) products you can plug-in new storage engines, Google Maps, themes, forums, newsletter. That’s really amazing!
In the afternoon, after learning the basics and something more we delved in some use cases to see what Plone can do for real.
Last but not least, Plone scales very well and can work in a lot of different configurations (load balancing, with Squid, etc.)
Plone impressed me positively so I’ll make the acquaintance with it eventually.
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Plone doesn’t scale unless you can spend much money on hardware. It’s absurdly slow and only tons of memory and caching can make it fast. It’s not easy, the learning curve is STEEP. Yeah, you get some things for free, but customization is NOT easy. You will end up having lots of workarounds, and you’ll feel like you’re going through hell each time you want to deeply customize the UI. It doesn’t really suck, but it’s not well-suited for anything less than really large websites. I’m moving one of my websites away from Plone to Django.
Nice to hear something different. Anyway, one day I’ll try to customize some parts of it myself and I’ll let you know
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