Python Secret Weblog for 2005 October

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.

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(16) Tue Oct 04 2005 19:50 Benji York is doing good work:

Benji York, a relatively recent Zope Corporation employee, first appeared on my "does interesting stuff" radar due to his work with Zope 3 testing: zope.testbrowser, which promises to bring to Zope 3 testing something I played with before in the context of Silva but never really made very usable: functional testing of the web frontend of code on the server side (utilizing mechanize). Benji's innovation to make this really easy is by integrating it with doctests.

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(2) Fri Oct 07 2005 20:04 Towards a common structure of Zope 3 extensions:

Quite a few Zope 3 extensions are starting to appear. This is great. There is all the great work done within the Z3ECM svn repository. There's Infrae's hurry library of little Zope 3 odds and ends. Then there are various Zope 3 extensions written by Zope corporation, such as zc.catalog and zope.formlib. There's also various work done in the Zope 3 base svn repository.

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(7) Sat Oct 08 2005 15:12 Zope and scaling down:

Ian Bicking posts about what he percieves is a focus of Zope 3 on modeling up-front:

Good development in the beginning means deferring choices as much as possible and focusing on results instead of abstractions. Abstractions should emerge from your functional goals, and if you spend a lot of time modeling in the beginning then you've made premature choices and designed code that you don't yet understand. You haven't just wasted time, you've introduced a liability.

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