Jon Ide wrote:
Pam,
This is welcome news!
I'll second that!
Let me give you some feedback from the perspective of a Zope newbie. When I first learned about Zope I was quite excited about it, but when I started to delve into it a little further I was somewhat discouraged. Everything is in
Our group has also had some trouble coming up to speed. We are actually doing much better now that we're far enough into the research have the code make sense when we read it, but there were a couple of frustrating days at the beginning of the learning process.
So a couple of things that would be invaluable for someone like me:
a) A big-picture roadmap, something to orient the newcomer.
b) A substantive real-life example. Examples are always the best way to learn how to use new software tools. You folks are using Zope in the real world. Is there an example application that you can publish (i.e., source code)? Preferably this would be an example showing Zope's use to access databases on the back-end and handling e-commerce (credit card transactions, shopping carts, etc.).
I would add to that list: c) Documentation for the existing classes. Just knowing what classes are out there would make it *much* easier to figure out how to go. We are looking at creating Products, but what we really want is to modify the behavior of an existing object. If we knew what to subclass, that'd make life much nicer. Thanks, Doug Hellmann