Paul Everitt discusses the benefits and challenges of bringing together programmers from around the world to improve packaging and products for the Zope 3 open source application server, the CMF Content Management Framework, and the Plone content management system.
The Ruby on Rails Web application framework can jump-start 24-carat Web development, and the Asynchronous JavaScript And XML libraries sweeten the GUI pot.The catch: You'll have to code in Ruby.
The OpenDocument format is poised to become a de facto standard for the free office software and could be used as a common basis for large-scale content management applications.