Happy birthday Plone!
This afternoon, I woke up after pulling an all-nighter to prepare for deployment of a whole new language section on our Plone public site. The content, fully translated, is already there: in the form of product lifecycle management data on our internal Plone system. See my article here from 2020...
My non-technical boss is creating content right now. I expect the new section to go live on Monday at the latest. Before adding the new section, we summoned Claude to provide perfect gettext translations of our 2,000 technical terms and compliance statements. We reviewed, merged back the translations into pootle, and then into our Plone PLM.
ZEO, coupled with Varnish and nginx makes for a seamless experience on our public site. The Plone RestAPI product catalog items are enriched with availability and pricing data from our ERP and our online store, then go through a Diazo theme to complete the look.
With the PLM (now celebrating 10 years of use), we go "from concept to carton" in a week for whole new brands or product lines. This includes PDF technical documents, XML packaging templates, structured data exports for online shops and point-of-sale systems. But before today, I never fully realized how integrated our public facing website really is. A few days ago, I read a post here that mentioned "Plone: the Quiet Giant" -- I can only agree.
So, before falling asleep, I fantasized about how the Quiet Giant empowers and automates our manufacturing process. If this pipeline helps us survive the recession, maybe we can help other manufacturers do the same?
The first thing I did after making coffee was to register a new domain name. We are going to make our data plumbing pipeline available to the world at large. I then looked at new posts here and was reminded about World Plone Day. There are no coincidences.
Happy World Plone Day, and welcome to this world autofakt dot net.
All-In Zopista and Plonista since 2000 and 2012 respectively,
-- Norbert