[Zope-dev] Is ZFormulator alive?

2001-03-12 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Arno said: > I am currently checking ZFormulator and could import the demo, > but was unable to add new input fields. >From a post by Steve Spicklemire to the Zope list, October, 27th, 2000: " line 312: Form.py should be: __roles__ = ('Manager',) " This was quickly retrieved by se

[Zope-dev] State of ZPatterns

2001-03-11 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Itai wrote: > My understanding was, though, > that TransWarp will replace ZPatterns as the best tool for object > model based development, which means that the idea of developing > ZPatterns code with a view for long term future reuse suddenly isn't > that attractive. My inclination exactly.

[Zope-dev] SAP DB <--> ZODB ?

2001-03-11 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Kapil said: > looks like it will instantly become the most advanced open source database > out there. my current rankings of the general os rdbms in terms of features > postgresql->interbase->mysql Keep in mind that (even though) it is an effective "general os rdbms", PostgreSQL was origina

[Zope-dev] Storing lots of big objects in containers

2001-02-24 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Morten asked: > ..I can't really use any external storages, as the reason for > bringing these objects into the ZODB was to structure them > and make then indexable by ZCatalog This sounds like the sort of thing ExtFile was made for. Your metadata still lives in the ZODB, but points to the file

[Zope-dev] zope and java

2001-02-06 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Mike asked: > Can zope work with Java yet? If so, please point us in the right direction. Phil responded: > I'll recap. There is a piece of software under development called JPE. > This is supposedly going to be or even is a Jave-Python gateway in effect. > > It should allow you to use Java cl

[Zope-dev] DTML Entity Syntax, was (no subject)

2000-10-27 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Johann Loibl wonders: > What does the following line means? > > href="&dtml.url-mail_password_form; > > how to work with '&' ? This means to substitue the value stored in the variable "mail_password_form" as an "absolute URL". It's known as "DTML Entity Syntax". Check out: http:/

[Zope-dev] Zopelets, get your Zopelets . . .

2000-10-25 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
FYI, Check out the latest project of Ray Ozzie, the Lotus Notes guy. It sounds like distributed applications, with intermitent access, may be taken a bit more seriously soon: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/front/docs/dg102400.htm Later, Jerry S.

[Zope-dev] Task, Job or Operation?

2000-10-23 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Sorry for the duplicate post, forgot the subject. :) Hi Name Hunters, My problem with Zopelet is that it already has a meaning, at least to me. Looking down the road, not nearly as far as one might imagine, let's see where we may be heading. Think about minimal Zope instances running on Palm G

[Zope-dev] (no subject)

2000-10-23 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Hi Name Hunters, My problem with Zopelet is that it already has a meaning, at least to me. Looking down the road, not nearly as far as one might imagine, let's see where we may be heading. Think about minimal Zope instances running on Palm Gizmos, Cell Phones, whatever, a sort of personal ZEOCl

[Zope-dev] A good collaboration 'partner' ? Was: ZPatterns design questions

2000-10-07 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Hi Steve, and fellow ZPatterns Wannabees, As to the sorts of things most of us need to keep track of that could tie into a simple "ToDo" List, so far we've seen suggestions for an Address Book and Deliverables. The first sounds kind of like a Contact List to me, or maybe an Ownership or Collabora

[Zope-dev] Trying to catch up - what are the best Zope tools today?

2000-10-05 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Itai asked: > "I started reading about ZPatterns but I still can't get my head > around it... I'm wondering if I should try to learn it fast enough > for this project, or stick to what I already know. What in people's > experience is the typical learning curve for ZPatterns? How much am I > g

[Zope-dev] XHTML Templates comments from the peanut gallery

2000-09-28 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
> >Chris Withers writes: > > A **page** is the result of applying presentation to data in the > > object system. A page is a particular result of a URL when viewed > > under certain conditions. > > I'd like to add to this: > components used to make up 'page's should not be URL-v

[Zope-dev] XHTML Templates comments from the peanut gallery

2000-09-28 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
>> Paul Everitt wrote: >> o Allow those presentation tools to work by having well-formed >> markup (e.g. no separation into header and footer) > to which Chris Withers replied: > Hmmm... I wonder how refactoring, which _header and _footer were really > useful for, will happen now... The

[Zope-dev] HiperDOM & xmlc

2000-09-19 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
There are a few things I'm trying to understand about the xmlc-like Templates proposal. First : "Using specialized webdesigners with Zope project has been one of the biggest pains in Zope development; we have to take the sometimes ugly code generated by the tools they use, usually clean it up, th

[Zope-dev] HiperDOM & xmlc

2000-09-17 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Hi Zope Gurus, After looking over all the HiperDOM / xmlc stuff I think I'm starting to "get it". I'll just summarize the things that ring especially true for me, with some comments Re. letting HTML "Page" Designers use familiar tools: "Note that XMLC depends on legal HTML/XML markup that will

[Zope-dev] Re: /, XML, DTML syntaxgeddon

2000-08-18 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Hi Folks, As for "re-doing" DTML, there's a cogent point made in Extreme Programming circles that goes something like this: "Names matter. For every time someone writes (types?) the name of an object, it will be read 10 times. Pick Good Names." Much of the DTML confusion arises from "names" tha