[Zope3-Users] introductory app idea: music filesystem browser

arbour arbour42 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 19:58:29 EST 2006


I think a calendar app is an outstanding idea, and I would certainly help.

I've gotten 3 different books on Zope 3 and Plone, and I still really can't
get my head around it.  When compared to Rails and Django, Zope3 doesn't
have those simple yet thorough examples to really get you going.

A beginner's tutorial needs to be thorough, showing how to handle CSS,
updates, and so on.  I look at Schooltool and am very impressed with their
calendar app, but don't know how to start analyzing it.

Also, a calendar app would be good to help transition developers from the
database world to the ZODB world.  How do you create one-to-many tables in
Zope?  Or Many-to-many tables with an intermediary table?  Is there a way to
maintain the relations between these tables?  How do I pull data out of
these tables to analyze in Excel?  I would gladly help in any good-sized
tutorial like this.

As an aside, I first looked at Zope back in 1999, and printed out loads of
documents, but couldn't get anything working.  Zope3 is extremely powerful
stuff, but I keep reading around the web how frustrated people get with it.
It's good seeing how people here want to put together tutorials and keep
pushing Zope.

Alex


On 2/28/06, Adam Summers <adam at 4js.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'll happily work with people to do some work on a simple calendar tool,
> provided that there are 1-2 people who are willing to also put some work
> in on it -- and others are willing to crtique it.
>
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