Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-27 Thread Nate Aune
For those who are interested, I just uploaded a slidedeck What's new in Plone 4 that I will present tomorrow at World Plone Day as a 5 min lightning talk. http://www.slideshare.net/Jazkarta/whats-new-in-plone-4 I purposely left it very generic so that others can download it and tailor it to

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Steve McMahon
A few of my favorites: Dramatic speed improvements -- see Hanno's charts. Both for page rendering and initial load. http://blog.hannosch.eu/2010/01/plone-4-how-much-faster-is-it.html http://jstahl.org/archives/2010/01/19/plone-4-three-times-faster-than-drupal-joomla-or-wordpress/ Python 2.6's

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Paley
New default visual editor: TinyMCE But why is that a benefit? What was wrong with the old editor? What problem is the new editor solving? Without explaining the benefit of TinyMCE, I'm not sure it's a selling point. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Steve McMahon st...@dcn.org wrote: A few of

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Steve McMahon
Scott asks a particular question; let me raise the general one: Plone 4.0 is really a sucks less release. To me, it's awesome because I know that all the many sucks less improvements (not as slow, not as much memory use, more mainstream visual editor, no silly small/large folder distinction ...)

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.]
Plone 4: The 'Stealthy Bliss Release' ? I see it being akin to the updated Facebook iPhone App that finally respects ones 'block' settings, so one doesn't have to read through everyone's Farmville and Mafia updates ;) Sometimes it's the little things that really matter to people. Apple is

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Eric Steele
I've been considering it more our Snow Leopard. It's got a lot of backend cleanup, many smaller UI optimizations, a visual refresh, and the Python you already have won't work quite right. ;) Eric On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.] wrote: Plone 4: The 'Stealthy

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.]
Good one! Maybe 'Snow Leonard', then? Sounds a bit geekier, which is right. ;) Eric Steele wrote: I've been considering it more our Snow Leopard. It's got a lot of backend cleanup, many smaller UI optimizations, a visual refresh, and the Python you already have won't work quite right. ;)

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Chris Calloway
On 4/14/2010 11:19 AM, Scott Paley wrote: Without explaining the benefit of TinyMCE, I'm not sure it's a selling point. Check this out: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php I'm sold. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.secoora.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919)

Re: [Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-14 Thread Dylan Jay
Plone 4- twice as fast, four times as sexy. Dylan Jay Technical solution manager PretaWeb 99552830 On 15/04/2010, at 1:16 AM, Steve McMahon st...@dcn.org wrote: A few of my favorites: Dramatic speed improvements -- see Hanno's charts. Both for page rendering and initial load.

[Evangelism] 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 4

2010-04-13 Thread Roberto Allende
Hello Two years and a half ago, Jon Stahl wrote a great post blog named 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 3[1]. There he wrote about new features coming with Plone 3. Considering there are just two weeks for World Plone Day 2010 and Plone 4 is going to be the star of the event, i would like