Re: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-18 Thread Bill Anderson
Chris Withers wrote: > > Graham Chiu wrote: > > The author creates a straw man ( a shoe shop built upon a shoe object ) > > without mentioning that Zope users can use a relational database instead > > to build their store. > > I think that's a Zope Documentation problem ;-) Not when you can se

Re: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Withers
George Donnelly wrote: > i thought oss was supposed to be different ... ? >:-/ Yes, but that doesn't mean it should be a pain in the ass to use and learn ;-) cheers, Chris ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-17 Thread George Donnelly
as a newbie i am kind of glad that there are no slick interfaces. i want to learn. i dont need to be coddled. :-) is it important for zope to be "big" like MS and oracle? [lets think about that for a second; do you really want to say that zope should be like MS or MS products? yeah MS has some go

Re: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Withers
Graham Chiu wrote: > The author creates a straw man ( a shoe shop built upon a shoe object ) > without mentioning that Zope users can use a relational database instead > to build their store. I think that's a Zope Documentation problem ;-) > And he is not aware of the way that many here use edit

Re: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Withers
Gijs Reulen wrote: > I also think that interfacing with stuff like Dreamweaver is very important. Totally agree... What about Dreamweaver UltraDev? It has support for Coldfusion and various other similar offerings but not Zope. I'd say that's pretty important to sort out... That said, Zoep Stud

RE: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-17 Thread Gijs Reulen
> Well Gijs, you've got some points right in what you're saying BUT... > If you know some HTML and Stylesheets why don't you revamp the > interface yourself. I have. I was not talking of myself. I do not care much anymore for the visual aspect of the interface. However, for new users it could be

Re: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-17 Thread Graham Chiu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Firestar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-07/lw-07-penguin_2.html > >Hmm...what is your opinion on the article above? I'm interested to see the >author's comparison btwn Enhydra and Zope. The author creates a straw man ( a sh

[Zope] linuxworld article and auto-form generation

2000-07-16 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
I played around with some auto-form generating ZClasses a couple months ago. Just thought i should share since it seems to be something people want, and i saw it used as a feature-lack against zope on linuxworld. basically it just spits out an html page where you pick a property sheet and then it

[Zope] SV: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-16 Thread peter be
ing Enlightment or KDE, I can have it exaclty the way I want it. Even better than Windows! Isn't Open Source software cute? - Original Message - From: Gijs Reulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mailinglist Zope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 2:27 PM Subject: R

RE: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-16 Thread Gijs Reulen
Hi I think the author is right about the interface of Zope. Take a look at what Enhydra has to offer: http://www.enhydra.org/software/ScreenShots.html What the author especially is missing in Zope is something line Enhydra DODS (Data Object Design Studio), an grafical interactive way to combine o

[Zope] FW: [Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-16 Thread George Donnelly
this is a smear and a cowardly one. one small complaint about the default dtml methods produced when creating a zclass does not an intelligent criticism make! zope is not perfect but he failed to describe any serious problems. imo Regards, GEORGE DONNELLY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cyklotron.com

[Zope] linuxworld article

2000-07-16 Thread Firestar
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-07/lw-07-penguin_2.html Hmm...what is your opinion on the article above? I'm interested to see the author's comparison btwn Enhydra and Zope. regards, firestar __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign u