[Zope] anyone heard of Zamasing?

[Tim Nash]

Phil,
  It is great to see more posts about how well zope works for "Web
2.0" projects. I have used extjs with zope and really like the
combination. I'd like to learn more about your jquery /plone setup and
how you make it work. Would it be a time consuming for you to create a
generic product that demonstrates your setup? It would be helpful to
have a common set of artifacts to discuss.
Thanks,
Tim
ps. I can make available a generic product that demonstrates how I use
extjs if there is interest. It is pretty simple...serve a little dtml
doc which requests the gui cached in javascript. Gui makes ajax calls
back to zope for the dynamic elements.

pps. nice work zamazing! python/dtml syntax highlighting in codepress?
sweet. (but I am addicted to the mac version of Komodo)


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Philip Kilner <phil at xfr.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
>
>  Tom Von Lahndorff wrote:
>
> > Thats pretty awesome. It's "zamazing" to me that Zope 2 is not a de facto
> platform for "Web 2.0" projects. I think it has some major benefits over
> Rails and maybe even Django but there seems to be no interest in it from
> that community. This is a great start.
> >
> >
>
>  I agree that it's a great platform for Web 2.0 projects - I'm a happy RDBMS
> developer, using Zope as an application server against Postgres dbs.
>
>  I find that Formulator, ZPTs and simple scripts on the server side and
> JQuery on the client side (specifically, the JQuery Taconite implementation
> [1] with XML ZPTs) work wonderfully together.
>
>  My interest is pretty narrow, in the sense that I'm all about RDBMSs,
> tabular data, and form-driven data entry - the less guff between me the and
> the RDBMS, the happier I am. However, if I don't have much to say, it's only
> because TTW Zope development using these tools is so easy. If there is any
> interest in discussing this stuff, I am up for that.
>
>  Having said all that, I'm happy enough with the ZMI as it is, so "Zamasing"
> is only of academic interest to me.
>
>  FWIW, all these techniques can also be made to work seamlessly inside Plone
> without doing any actual Plone development, which can be handy (you really
> only need to work with Plone's CSS to make it look consistent) - a server
> side mash-up which avoids all the cross-site scripting stuff, if you like.
>
>  [1] http://www.malsup.com/jquery/taconite/
>
>
>  --
>
>  Regards,
>
>  PhilK
>
>
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>  - alasdair gray
>
>
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