[Zope] Best Zope book for Developers?

Dylan Reinhardt zope@dylanreinhardt.com
02 Jun 2003 13:32:38 -0700


On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:14, Stefan H. Holek wrote:
> This is more a recommendation of what *not* to read:
> I recommend you skip the DTML chapters in all the books. Use PythonScripts 
> and PageTemplates from the start. Don't get fooled into thinking that you 
> can build a clean site with DTML. ;-)

Sure you can.

Just don't use DTML as though it's meant for significant logic.

> 
> Try to learn about filesystem-based products as early as possible.

Agreed.  This is where the real power of Zope is... and where heavy use
of DTML pays off the quickest since you've got unrestricted Python
available to run all the logic.  :-)

Dylan