Tools for Coders

There are a number of tools that can aid the hard-core coder in developing programs (Products) for Plone.

NOTE: This information is intended for programmer/developer. For those interested primarily in changing the look and feel and templates of a Plone site, please browse the Template and Skins documents.

Coder/Developer Tools

Third-party applications that may make your life easier. ymmv.

WingIDE - http://wingware.com/

The WingIDE from WingWare is an excellent pythonic development IDE. It also can be used in conjunction with a zope Product (WingDBG) that allows you to debug code that's running in the zope client instance!

ArgoUML - http://tigris.org/

A decent UML modler. It's open source, and works pretty well.

Poseidon for UML - http://gentleware.com/

A cleaned-up commercial UML editor. More feature-rich and zippier than ArgoUML. Students can purchase a copy for a reasonable $89 from the website.

Products

^{These are Zope/Plone products that you'll want to install.}

Clouseau

Really cool tool. Install in your TEST and DEVELOPMENT instances only!
http://plone.org/products/clouseau

DocFinderTab

http://plone.org/products/docfindertab

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