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

[Howard Clinton Shaw III]

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Tom Schwaller wrote:
> Alex.Thomas@dresdnerkb.com wrote:
> > 
> > Is this news? Anyway, there's a long article describing Zope by Tom Riedl in
> > June's Linux Magazin (in German).
> 
> I put the article online yesterday.
> 
> http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe.1999.06/Zope/zope.html
> 
> 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.
> 
> Some remarks: 
> 
> 1. With Aquisition I could finally do 
> what I always wanted to do! Bellissimo! Poor CGI-Developpers :-)
> 
> 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-->

If  you look through the list for the Counter product I sent awhile back, I
believe it has a technique for avoiding excessive growth of the database by
caching changes, and writing the changes to permanent storage every X
increments. Something like that might work here. Sorry, but I don't recall
exactly how I did it.

> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
> 5. Developping with Zope is just fun, although my learning 
> curve was quite steep :-)
> 
> Tom
> 
> -- 
> 
> Tom Schwaller
> Linux Magazin
> http://www.linux-magazin.de/
> 
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Howard Clinton Shaw III - Grum
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