Posted at 2:32pm on Monday, April 14th, 2008
This thread over at AskMeFi (Plone vs. Drupal) is surprising in its vociferous hatred of Plone. Part of me really wants to get involved; wade in on behalf of Plone and explain exactly why Drupal is a labyrinthine mess… But… I can’t. The last week I’ve been struggling to get to grips with Plone 3.x. It’s been really tough. Today is not the day to defend something that’s been pissing me off constantly for the last week.
Right now I’d be happy for any alternative on the Python CMS front (Exotypes, anyone?). If this is the way Plone is going I’m not sure I want to follow any more.
Posted at 9:02pm on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
We’ve launched another customer site today… www.forster.co.uk is the new corporate site for The Forster Company, a really fascinating bunch of people who “deliver communication for social change” (PR with an ethical message to the layman). People who know me in real life will know that that’s exactly the sort of thing that presses my hippy buttons, so I’ve really enjoyed the last few months as we’ve been putting this one together. It’s Plone again (we can’t help it, honest), but the work that our friend Rob has done on the design has made it very hard to tell. All in all a rather good do.
Posted at 6:58am on Friday, November 17th, 2006
Plone for Content Managers claims to be the first book written for the people that actually end up using Plone, rather than developers. This is a book that I’ve been waiting for so long that I’ve attempted to write myself more than a few times. Unfortunately it’s only available from Amazon US at the moment, so it’ll be a while before I can tell you if it’s actually any good. Check the Isotoma blog in about 36 days 
