Forgot to add - use the unified installer for plone/zope/python from plone.org. Don't use plone from your Linux distribution - it will be too far out of date and many distros put the plone stuff in odd places, so it makes it hard to use the documentation. Mark On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Mike, > > I suggest you get a copy of Professional Plone 4 Development by Martin > Aspeli (pakt) and join the plone users group. and follow that book. It > takes you from setting up your development environment to creating add on > products for Plone. It is very good, but you need a rudimentary knowledge > of python. > > Installing Plone is easy....running it is easy...simple changes are > easy....developing new functionality takes some time to learn how to do it > correctly. Feel free to contact me off list for help. However, there are > many more knowledgeable plonistas on the Plone users' group email list. ;) > > Mark > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> I'm checking out plone and I'm trying to download it right now. I need to >> download some addiitonal stuff too. They want me to d/l imagemagick but it >> seems to be a windows thing. Is there a linux equivalent that I'm supposed >> to d/l? >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:48 PM, keith smith wrote: >> >>> >>> I apologize for branching, however, am I reading that you find PHP >>> developers more difficult to work with than python developers? >>> >>> That would be an interesting observation. >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> Keith Smith >>> >>> --- On *Tue, 1/24/12, Stephen * wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: Stephen >>> Subject: Re: drupal or plone >>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" >>> Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 2:57 PM >>> >>> >>> The other aspect of things is there seems to be more python friendly >>> folks out there and not as many php friendly, but that is only from my >>> personal experience and may not be accurate outside of my own life. >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Michael Havens > >>> wrote: >>> > I was reading about Drupal on wikipedia. This is a small portion of >>> what it >>> > has to say: >>> > >>> > When compared to three other well-known open source CMS platforms >>> > covered by the >>> > MITRE CVE database, Drupal ranked second - after Plone but before >>> > WordPress and Joomla.[76] >>> > >>> > So let's talk about Plone. Why was it ranked ahead of drupal? What is >>> it >>> > about? What is the difference between the two? For those of you who >>> have >>> > used both why do you prefer the platform you have chosen to go with? >>> > >>> > -- >>> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> > >>> > --------------------------------------------------- >>> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >>> >>> Stephen >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >