[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

[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 originally

[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. I

[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

[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:

[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

[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

[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

[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 going

[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 most

[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-visible.

[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,