The way I use Plone

A collection of notes on my development and deployment practices with Plone.

Guiding principles and prerequisites

I do not expect all my use cases to have a Plone-based answer. It's even okay that some use cases do not have an answer. It's okay to fallback to manual solutions.
Ideally, I use a setup with Plone 4.3+ where the default content types are replaced with the Dexterity-based ones (plone.app.contenttypes).
I use my own buildout configuration, because it is easy for me, and that way, I know exactly what gets installed.
Whenever possible, I use browser views instead of TTW templates and scripts .