(10) Thu Nov 15 2007 23:56 At the Dawn of the Fourth Age of Zope:

Some years ago, in 2004, I came up with the following quote to promote the Five project, which was the first step towards the inclusion of Zope 3 technologies in Zope 2. Zope 3 technologies are now heavily used in Zope 2 projects, and Zope 3 code has been part of Zope 2 for a while now, but back then we were just at the start of this process. The quote itself was creatively adapted from the first season intro of Babylon 5, a 90s scifi TV show:

(5) Wed Sep 26 2007 14:53 the challenges of version management in an eggified world:

Zope 3, and Grok in the last few months have been switching to a brave new eggified world of installation. The idea is that you compose your Zope application from a large amount of smaller packages, each providing their own components. I've sometimes described this Zope as an integrated megaframework. Zope is an integrated framework where packages follow common coding conventions, and the component architecture defines a way for packages to work with each other. Grok tries to step up by aiming for an integrated feel for developers. At the same time, Zope is a megaframework, allowing you to swap in best of breed components as they come available. Don't like zope.formlib? Swap in z3c.form for your form generation needs instead.

(20) Mon Sep 10 2007 15:24 Well-kept secrets of Zope:

Zope is a web framework that comes equipped with powerful, apparently secret, features. Some of the things Zope has had for literally years other web frameworks are only evolving today. And in other cases, Zope comes equipped with features that other web framework communities are currently only dreaming about.

(10) Tue Jan 09 2007 14:04 Grok Sprint Zwei: the Ascent of Man:

Yesterday I returned from "Grok Sprint Zwei", the second grok sprint, hosted by Philipp von Weitershausen in Dresden, Germany (and partially at Gocept for the warming up). Grok is a project to make Zope 3 safe, easy and fun for cavemen and other hominids like ourselves. Zope 3 of course is the powerful and flexible framework for the construction of web applications. See here for my initial introduction of the Zope Grok project.

(19) Thu Nov 09 2006 23:21 Grok: or what I did on my holiday:

I will use this blog entry to talk talk a bit about my holiday in Germany a few weeks ago. I went to a mini sprint at Gocept, in Halle. I had a great time! (yes, I am a geek) This sprint showed that good sprints aren't necessarily the ones with many people participating; we just had 4 sprinters (and less much of the time), and this was one of the most productive sprints I've been at for years. I left the sprint energized and excited. Thanks to Gocept for organizing this, it was awesome!

(24) Sun Sep 24 2006 16:54 Jean-Marc's implications:

Jean-Marc Orliaguet is rewriting CPSSkins again, this time in Java, as Nuxeo is switching their CPS platform from Python and Zope to the Java language . The reasons for this switch are detailed in the FAQ. I'm not going to debate them here.

(3) Thu Dec 15 2005 22:39 Empowering the power users:

In my last article I talked about the problems that occur on the borderland between content and software, but didn't give enough examples. I figured I'd add some more text about this very important topic.

(7) Thu Dec 15 2005 13:34 The borderland between content and software:

Paul Everitt writes:

In the early days of Zope, you could design content "TTW" (through the web). You could answer questions about structure and suddenly, you had new kinds of content -- YOUR content -- that could be added to folders in the system. No programmers were involved, no special login permissions on the server, no database schemas to update.

(1) Fri Dec 02 2005 19:36 Five-based i18n in Silva checked in (PTS Delenda Est):

Last summer the Five project pulled Zope 3's i18n architecture into the Zope 2 world, thanks to work done by Philipp von Weitershausen, Lennart Regebro and others (please forgive me if I forget someone!).

(8) Fri Nov 11 2005 16:41 Tramline source code now available:

At the Plone conference 2005 I gave a lightning talk about tramline, a lightweight up and download accelator for web applications. Now at last I've found some time to put the source code online. This is not a proper release yet, but it's there for interested people to take a look at it.

Sat Oct 01 2005 13:31 Credit where credit's due:

Thank you Phillip Eby for giving credit where's credit's due in your comment on this article.

Fri Sep 09 2005 18:33 hurry library in the Zope 3 base:

Since various people were curious to see especially the little query language we wrote on top of the Zope 3 catalog, I've just put up the generic libraries we developed for documentlibrary project online, at least in svn in the Zope 3 base at codespeak, here:

(1) Wed Jul 13 2005 12:08 extended catalog queries in Zope 3:

Yesterday I managed to build something in just a few hours in Zope 3 that I wouldn't have been able to build so easily in Zope 2. What I've built is an extended query system for the Zope 3 catalogs.

(3) Sat Apr 16 2005 00:27 the Clarity Template Language:

The ClearSilver templating language does not have a very pleasant syntax for people familiar with the TAL notation of Zope Page Templates. That's not to say ClearSilver's syntax is awful; it's deliberately simple, and I'm sure one could get used to it pretty quickly. Still, I started wondering what ClearSilver syntax would look like if it were more like TAL. Let's call such a theoretical TAL-like ClearSilver "Clarity". Perhaps this is a bit confusing, as it's the same name as the ClearSilver integration package I talked about before, but it's a nice name. :)

(2) Fri Apr 15 2005 20:38 Clarity, ClearSilver integration for Zope 3:

I've just checked in a new package into the Zope 3 base subversion repository called Clarity. What it does is integrate ClearSilver templating into Zope 3 (trunk, though I expect Zope X3.0 or even Five support should be easy enough). It's all still rough, but initial tests show ClearSilver templates can be quite a bit faster than ZPT, and they have other possible benefits. In my simplistic experiments I got transaction rates about 2 to 5 times higher than you can reach with ZPT, testing this with the 'siege' utility.

(11) Wed Apr 06 2005 20:35 What Zope can learn from Ruby on Rails:

Ian Bicking just posted an insightful analysis of what makes Ruby on Rails work. What struck me most was the following:

[More]

(2) Fri Mar 18 2005 14:56 How to delay a Zope release:

Jim Fulton, today, on the Zope-3 dev list:

Now that that the decision has been made to include Zope 3 in Zope 2.8, I'd really prefer that Zope 2.8 use X3.1 code, not X3.0 code. In general, having code shared by Zope 2 and Zope 3 will complicate deprecation, probably increasing the length of time we must keep backward-compatibility code. I'd like to try to keep the Zope 3 code used in Zope 2 and the Zope 3 code used in Zope 3 in sync as much as possible.

(10) Thu Mar 17 2005 15:56 Fixing the Zope release process:

In this article, I will identify problems with the Zope release strategy, attribute blame, propose solutions, and offer some hope for the future.