The "CD catalog/discography" examples in some of the earlier ZClass/ZCatalog howtos are not too bad; that might be a place to start - the _OLD_ Zope Developer's Guide (which only had one chapter - on ZClasses) plus the ZCatalog Tutorial (both written by Amos Lattieir) are a good combo for this sort of example, and could easily be turned into a presentation. I can't seem to find the old Developer's guide other than a printed copy that I have from a while back, but the ZCatalog tutorial, which refers to the CD class created in the old dev guide, is a good example of a relatively trivial ZClass that can be searched... The URL I do know: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/ZCatalogTutorial Sean ========================= Sean Upton Senior Programmer/Analyst SignOnSanDiego.com The San Diego Union-Tribune 619.718.5241 sean.upton@uniontrib.com ========================= -----Original Message----- From: Todd Cranston-Cuebas [mailto:Todd_Cranston-Cuebas@citysearch.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:26 PM To: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: [Zope] RE: meeting agenda? Charlie, See that's my biggest stumbling block. You really need to have a good object design and then create a ZClass if you're going to work with the ZODB. I'd love to see something simple, like a recipe card file created from scratch using ZClasses. Any "mature" Zope user willing to give it a try? I'm going to bring in my stand-alone Linux desktop unit so I can show off the word doc conversion product, so we'll have a server available. Todd -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Blanchard [mailto:charlie@blanchardsite.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:22 PM To: ender Cc: Todd Cranston-Cuebas Subject: Re: meeting agenda? nope. been swamped. i'd still like to see someone go thru the process of building a trivial app using zope. i.e., i've got a movie database that catalogs my vhs, laserdiscs and dvd movies. the first version was built using minivend (a perl based ecommerce app) and i have converted it to zope via mysql using zsql and dtml. i've played with tal by converting some of the dtml pages to page templates for comparison and that was neat. then i built a zclass to see what it would be like to try to implement the app in zodb only, and doing so raises a lot of questions that hark back to initial design. like how do you design properly for OO from the ground up... <sigh> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:47:08AM -0700, ender wrote:

hi charlie,

just curious if you had any ideas on an agenda for the next meeting?

cheers

kapil

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