Apr 18 2005
Plone Books Review on chiPy.org
I finally got around to writing a review of the two Plone books I’ve been working with on this recent Plone project.
Both books are good, I felt the McKay book has an edge though. Plone is a nice system, I’m not convinced that I’ll be using it much in the future though, it’s just a bit too heavy for my taste. I could see it if I was building a content heavy portal site, but not for the typical bread and butter web app I’m usually tasked with.
However, the Archetypes system in Plone is particularly neat. If you need some convincing as to why Plone may very well be a system that you could use, I’d suggest jumping right to the Archetype’s section of whichever book you ultimately decide to mess around with (McKay devotes an entire chapter to Archetypes, FYI.)
