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Re: [Sheflug] Zope?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:00:15PM +0000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am doing a course on web design, and have so far used an
> Apache server, ftp and what have you, as the course mainly covered basic
> HTML, a bit of javascript and so on and so forth. Now, a more advanced
> course is being proposed, and this one should include more advanced
> sites than your usual homepage kind-of scenario: snazzy, jaw-dropping
> dynamic content and the sort of useless stuff you see around. 
	[...]

	Well, after having played with Zope for about 2 hours yesterday,
I must say that I am well impressed with it. It is a great piece of
software, especially for web sites that need dynamic content and aren't
too busy. As a quick test, a simplish request that loads some HTML with
DTML tags (they do some simple processing) gets some 30 hits/s (that was
a crude test using ab, and averaged 10 times for a 100 requests each).
This on the K7/550MHz with 64 megs, kde, xemacs, octave and mutt
running. Presumably zope it's doing some cacheing of sorts, but I am
quite happy with this performance.

	Another interesting "feature" is that there are a number of
code-snippets that seem to cover the whole range of things you'd want to
have in a website, so you can either lift them (copyright withstanding),
or learn quite a lot from them.

	And of course, having a website with no files, only objects with
methods makes for a refreshing change :-) Also, the SQL interface is
superb for learning SQL on the fly. So there you go. You can tell I am
excited by this!!!

	Regards,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
Tel: +44 114 222 5582			Radar & Communications Group
FAX; +44 870 132 2990			Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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