At 8:32 AM +0200 6/13/2000, D Swart wrote:
I am trying to motivate the use of Zope / Zcommerce, and to do this need some timing ideas - Does anyone have thoughts on how long (man hours per expertise) it took them to go from no Zope to (Zope + Steve Spickelmire and Co's EMarket) and to a successful transaction?
From 0 to Zope in under 6.2 seconds! :) If you are totally new (no Zope in your blood) here is what I would expect. This does take into account that you know "something" about programming and variables and really good HTML as well as some server stuff (how to set up, IP addresses, shell scripts). I have put what it would take a Zopista in parenthesis (not me though, I only play one on the web). 1 day (1 hour) - Install Zope 1 day (done) - Download, print, read all guides and "howtos" 5 Days (2 days) - To get a basic site up and running. Log in, look and feel, tested, management, feel the power of Zope 1 day (2 hours) - Set up database backend and connect 5 days (2 days) - Build catalog system, Z SQL Methods, etc 2 days (2 days) - testing, testing, testing This is very rough but should be around the amount of time. This does mean full "developing days" which are about 10-14 hours. I don't know about transactions so you might want to pad it a bit. I will say though, that once you get into developing with Zope you realize just how fast you can develop new products with it. It is an amazing working environment. J