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After ensuring some existing code would work under Zope 3.2 (still in beta testing at this point), I've been allowed this week to start work on a small internal (for now) project. I decided to take this opportunity to start looking at some new Zope 3.2 features. And while my experience with any of these is severely limited at this point, I want to mention them because they're all very interesting.Content...

My previous post showed how Interfaces and Adapters provide the heart of the Zope Component Architecture, which beats at the center of the Zope 3 framework and application server, and is also pumping new life into Zope 2. The other chief piece of the Zope Component Architecture are Utilities. Interfaces allow coding to a specification, which can be as detailed or as general as one chooses. Adapters...

We've done amazing work in the past few months with Zope 3. Compared to the black magic of Zope 2 and so many other frameworks I look at, it's quite refreshing. It's not always easy, but it's been fun while also being quite trustworthy. Even without a deep understanding of all that's available, my very small company and our even smaller team of developers have achieved incredible results: a from scratch...

Paul Everitt, one of the original founders of what is now Zope Corporation who is now doing a thousand different things across Europe, has a good post about 'agile content development', in reference to a CMS Watch post about a Mark Baker presentation (PDF) about this issue. Paul makes some interesting notes and reminders about some of the power of "classic Zope" through-the-web development, including...

Yesterday I touched on using Tinderbox as it's become a core part of my Getting Things Done workflow. In particular, I became enamored with the Map View yesterday as I had to plan out a tricky little project. While working in the map view, where I was able to think things out spatially instead of hierarchically, the items I created were still regular Tinderbox items and were wired into my GTD agents....

Over recent weeks, I've been trying (as I often do) to get and stay on top of things. I think I may have found a system that works. I've said this many times before, but this time may be different.It started a couple of months ago when Kinkless GTD showed up on the scene. Kinkless GTD, also known as KGTD, is an implementation of David Allen's Getting Things Done system as an OmniOutliner document...

I've been reminded, in some excellent email exchanges, that there is no real site for Zope 3. There is dev.zope.org/Zope3 - the Zope 3 development Wiki, but not much else. I think that it may be due, in part, to the fact that Zope X3.0.0 had the 'X' in the name and wasn't quite taken seriously as a final release? I don't know. But now that Zope 3.1.0 is released and the 'X' (which previously stood...

At long last, I have finally gotten around to archiving my old weblog, Industrie Toulouse. It is moved to euc.cx/toulouse, aka Toulouse Archives. This houses my blogging activity from 2002 to early 2005. Not all images may work, and there is no search, but all other links seem to work fine.Griddle Noise will continue to be the home for new posts and surliness for the time being.Sincere...

A post came to my attention today covering "Best of breed controllers for MVC Web Frameworks." It covers, again, toolkits like Ruby On Rails, Django, CherryPy, and so on. The author initially treated this as a recent phenomenon of the last few years, but he was quickly corrected by Philip Eby in the first comment.Publishing objects on a nice URL is nothing new, and one of the best toolkits to do this...

Throughout the years, I've been fascinated by compound document technology. I still pine for OpenDoc. Most of my work has been on the web, and every few jobs I seem to come into doing content management and every time I do, it's seldom as simple as "entering some text on a page".I have proposals, diagrams, and outlines going back to my previous major employer. But most of my memory of getting to really...

A cool photoset on flickr: "Apple's Front Pages Along The Years". Going back to 1996, it includes a couple of captures from the Amelio years. I remember that site. Apple at that time was quite large and sprawling and many sites were off on their own subdomain with their own look and feel. There was a trove of information out there on projects like the Dylan Programming Language as well as OpenDoc,...