[Zope] - zen zope

[David Brown]

It's really nice when that insight catches up with you, and you
realize that if you just move your angle of perception a couple of
degrees, you'll see that moose that just wandered into the room.

After sending off some mail to this list (and getting very useful
responses -- thank you to everybody that responded) about Frontier
and Zope and Templates and the Apparent Lack Thereof, I ignored
it for a while.

And I played a little bit (unsuccessfully) with ZServer, periodically
looking at the website.  I noticed the HOWTO on changing the default
object from index_html to whatever you wanted.  I also noticed that it
DIDN'T really change the default, it just modified index_html to load
whatever page you wanted.

I suddenly felt both smart and stupid at the same time.

I can use index_html as my "template", with index_html loading the
page I want rendered.  So now my index_html loads index.html.  I can
create subfolders, with their own index.html, and they all inherit
from the index_html, with the style that I want.

Blam.  There it was.

Funny, I've been getting paid to do OOP all these years (with
Smalltalk, Java, and C++, but Smalltalk the most), and I didn't see
the obvious.

dave (finding zen, line by line)