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Re: [Sheflug] Zope?



On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:07:56PM +0000, Will Newton wrote:
> Zope is quite fun, I have it installed locally it's pretty hard to find a
> hosting service that will run it, mainly due to the security reputation
> it's got. PHP is pretty useful, but the language "design" gives me cold
> sweats. If you want flashy looking websites then I would suggest
> Javascript/DHTML/Flash is what you may be looking for. :)

	I have used PHP/SQL for production, and found it useful for what
I was doing, it's messy and quite hard to keep track of what's going on.
I find the fact that HTML and code co-exist an absolute nightmare, but
that is probably due to my sloppy approach to coding anyway :-)

	On the JS/Flash and so on front, I don't think this is a good
idea... Might as well tell them to use DreamWeaver and forget all the
good practice learnt in the past :-)

	The point about Zope is that it looks quite nice for teaching
non-geeks (#include <disclaimer.h>) about a bit more than just plain
page set-up. The fact that you can do a number of things without
effectively programming is a big advantage. I think I need more research
into what it offers, since all information I have read so far is aimed
at the corporate user, and that requires some decoding on my part. 

> (bah, missed Cathedral and Hangnail, too much work...)

	I must say that Cathedral were quite good. Unfortunately, there
weren't that many people around. In my days, it would have been
packed... tsk, tsk...

	Cheers,
	José

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