Zope DispatchesNews, stories, and wisecracks from the world of Zope.Talking about Deliverance next week in DC- November 30, 2007 Next week I'm giving a talk in Washington DC on Tuesday, Dec 4 to the ZopePython Users Group (ZPUG) DC. I'll be talking about Repoze from a middleware perspective. Specifically, I'll talk about using Deliverance to apply a single corporate identity to all Python web applications. I'll also try to give a beginner's guide to using Paste as a quick way to get a sandbox going. If you're interested in Python web technologies, but aren't a guru, this would probably be a decent meeting to attend..http://radio.weblogs.com/0116506/2007/11/30.html#a448 New ideas regarding page composition- November 7, 2007 The prodigious Carlos de la Guardia wrote an intriguing article about Plone Performance and the Future of ZPT. He poses a question in the article: "I wonder if Deliverance could be useful here also"Short answer: yes. Longer answer: sorta, and I'd like to find out what people think. So read on, and if you have an interest in alternative thinking on how HTML UIs get generated, ping me.As background, before I used the word "Deliverance", I was focusing only on Zope Site Themes. I view theming as..http://radio.weblogs.com/0116506/2007/11/07.html#a447 Repoze at ZPUG last night- November 7, 2007 Last night Chris McDonough gave a presentation to the ZopePython User Group of Washington, D.C. I went along for the festivities and quite enjoyed myself. Pretty good turnout.As preparation, Chris wrote a detailed article about getting started with Repoze:We've just created and released Developing With repoze.zope2 which is a short 10-page PDF that explains the benefits of and differences between developing Zope 2 applications using Repoze and "stock" Zope 2. It might be helpful to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0116506/2007/11/07.html#a446 Might we be returning to a One True Zope- November 7, 2007 When you say Zope to someone, they may or may not hear the same thing you said. There's Zope 2. There's a completely different thing called Zope 3. There's also a company, but that's a different topic.It's thus with great relief this morning to read Baiju's At last Zope 3 releases coming to an end ! post. It's somewhat startling, and exciting, to hear this said in public:I won't be surprised if the term "Zope 3" itself vanish in the future.I realize there is a small...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116506/2007/11/07.html#a445 |