[plug] Wanted: Zope programmer

[Adrian Blockley]

Maybe it is a "Zen" thing

The DEP has just launched the W.A. air quality site which was developed 
using Zope under Linux. In my limited experience Zope is not readily 
compared with PHP or Perl as it is amongst other things a very powerful 
web application publishing system and not a scripting language. Indeed 
Perl is one of the languages that you can use for scripting zope 
applications. I agree that DTML would not be my choice for scripting 
but within the Zope scheme of things Python and Perl would be used for 
anything that required more than very simple logic.

I think Zope is well worth a look at but it does have a pretty steep 
learning curve - I seem to have spent a lot of time trying to wrap my 
brain around some Zope concepts but feel that the effort was worthwhile.

If anyone is interested the DEP's air quality web pages can be found at:

http://epagate.environ.wa.gov.au:8000/air_quality

Cheers

Adrian


On 2002.06.24 11:46 Simon Scott wrote:
> On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:59 pm, J Michael Gilks wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:56, Michael Hunt wrote:
> > Cool, more fun. As if I didn't have enough things I want to learn.
> Have to
> > fit a bit of this in as well.
> 
> Im not suggesting you dont check it out, but Zope to me initially
> appeared
> exciting but appeared to have some serious flaws. The number one
> problem I
> had with it is that it appears to be massive overkill for the majority
> of
> sites. I also didnt like its DTML very much at all, its very verbose
> and
> clunky.
> 
> However, the tree-like object structure is cool. It makes creating and
> 
> managing a large site very easy.
> 
> Ive found that most sites are better off with PERL or PHP simply due
> to the simplicity.
> 
> Then again, maybe I just dont have 'zope-zen' :)
> 
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