[Zope] Zope in German Linux mag + some remarks/questions

[Paul Everitt]

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