Tom wrote:
Right now Zope is fully featured on our website (take a look at the Cover too :-)) and I plan to put the redesigned website (with Zope of course :-)) online as soon as possible.
This is great news! Amos, can you please put it in the News section?
Some remarks:
1. With Aquisition I could finally do what I always wanted to do! Bellissimo! Poor CGI-Developpers :-)
Acquisition occupies its own special space in the Zensphere.
2. I was shocked this week when I read the message, that by updating a property of an object one gets a backup of that object too. Thinking a minute about Zope and its possibilities this was of course obvious. I just forgot it and implemented a banner-managment with "intelligent" banners which know their URL, who often they are seen and clicked. I wish I could change
<!--#with banner--> <!--#call "manage_changeProperties(clicked=clicked+1)"--> <!--#call "RESPONSE.redirect(url)"--> <!--#/with-->
to something like
<!--#with banner--> <!--#call "manage_changeProperties(clicked=clicked+1, nobackup=1)"--> <!--#call "RESPONSE.redirect(url)"--> <!--#/with-->
Does this give sense? Is something like this planned?
Zope2 will supply a facility to have multiple "Storage Managers" in the same Zope, where some of the Storage Managers are *not* multiple revision types.
3. I do not have a clue how I can implement a search interface for the website I did? Some pointers to the docs or maybe a simple example would really be nice?
The ephemeral Catalog. Plan for June. You'll be pleased with the results.
4. My Data.bbb - file will be around 300 MB. Is this a problem? I remember an email which mentions that Zope has no problem with big datasets, but how big was that number?
We've gone over a gig. (For you folks that wondered what the Data.bbb.index file was for, it is to speed up cranking up Zope with huge datasets.) Perhaps aggressive packing (e.g. daily) can help?
5. Developping with Zope is just fun, although my learning curve was quite steep :-)
We don't make it easy enough, though the ZDP and Amos are working on it! --Paul