[Checkins] SVN: bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/ added a couple glossary terms, beginning work on introduction.history
Kent Tenney
ktenney at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 17:33:31 EST 2010
Log message for revision 108343:
added a couple glossary terms, beginning work on introduction.history
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U bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/glossary.rst
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Modified: bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/glossary.rst
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--- bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/glossary.rst 2010-01-20 22:07:55 UTC (rev 108342)
+++ bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/glossary.rst 2010-01-20 22:33:31 UTC (rev 108343)
@@ -87,6 +87,17 @@
ZCML
The `Zope Configuration Markup Language`_
+ Jim Fulton
+ `James Fulton`_ - Chief Technology Officer, Zope Corp, AKA the
+ *Zope Pope*, J1m in IRC. He's the man.
+
+ Bobo
+ Jim Fulton's original design of object oriented internet
+ publishing technology, implemented in Python.
+
+ CGI
+ `Common Gateway Interface`_
+
Grok
Grok_ is a web application framework for Python developers.
It is aimed at both beginners and very experienced web developers.
@@ -115,4 +126,5 @@
.. \_Zope Configuration Markup Language: http://worldcookery.com/files/ploneconf05-five/step2.html
.. _Zope Configuration Markup Language: http://www.muthukadan.net/docs/zca.html#zcml
.. _Grok: http://grok.zope.org/
+.. _James Fulton: http://www.zope.com/about_us/management/james_fulton.html
Modified: bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/introduction.rst
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--- bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/introduction.rst 2010-01-20 22:07:55 UTC (rev 108342)
+++ bluebream/website/docs/v1.0/introduction.rst 2010-01-20 22:33:31 UTC (rev 108343)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
.. _intro-overview:
Overview
---------
+++++++++
:term:`BlueBream` is a web framework written in the Python programming
language. BlueBream is free/open source software, owned by the
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
frameworks.
- BlueBream is built on top of the :term:`Zope Tool Kit` (ZTK), a
- distillation of decades of experience in meeting demanding
+ distillation of many years of experience in meeting demanding
requirements for stable, scalable software.
- BlueBream leverages the power of :term:`Buildout` a build
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
:term:`PasteScript`, and :term:`PasteDeploy`.
-- BlueBream includes a number of compenents which provide well tested
+- BlueBream includes a number of components which provide well tested
implementation of common requirements. A few are of these are:
- zope.publisher_ publishes Python objects on the web, it is geared
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
.. _zope.formlib: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.formlib
Join our community
-------------------
+++++++++++++++++++
We aim to provide high quality free online documentation for
BlueBream. If you would like to contribute, the ReStructuredText
@@ -107,10 +107,21 @@
.. _intro-history:
Brief history
--------------
++++++++++++++
.. FIXME: we need to improve the history
+.. committing as a comment until more complete
+
+ Our story begins in 1996, :term:`Jim Fulton` was Technical Director
+ at Digital Creations. At the IPC (International Python Conference)
+ that year, Jim gave a presentation on :term:`CGI`:
+ `Python and Internet Programming`_. Jim, considering CGI less than elegant,
+ envisioned a better way to program for the internet in Python. According
+ to legend, Jim learned CGI on the plane to the conference, and designed
+ :term:`Bobo` on the plane ride back home.
+
+
The beginning of Zope's story goes something like this, in 1996, Jim
Fulton (CTO of Zope Corporation) was drafted to teach a class on
common gateway interface (CGI) programming, despite not knowing very
@@ -146,16 +157,17 @@
Very recently Zope 3 project is renamed to BlueBream.
+.. _Python and Internet Programming: http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-06/agenda.html
.. _intro-organization:
Organization of the documentation
----------------------------------
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This documentation has divided into multiple chapters. Summary of
each chapter is given below.
Introduction
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
+************
This chapter introduce BlueBream with an :ref:`intro-overview` and
:ref:`intro-history`. Then walks through the
@@ -163,64 +175,64 @@
section.
Getting Started
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+***************
The :ref:`started-getting` chapter narrate the process of creating a
new web application project using BlueBream. Also it gives few
exercises to familiarize the basic concepts in BlueBream.
Concepts
-~~~~~~~~
+********
This chapter discuss important concepts and technologies used in
BlueBream.
Tutorial --- Part 1
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+*******************
This is the first of the BlueBream tutorial. This chapter walk
through creating a simple ticket collector application. This will
help you to familiarize more concepts in BlueBream.
Tutorial --- Part 2
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+*******************
This is the first of the BlueBream tutorial. This chapter continue
the ticket collector application development. This chapter explain
forms, schemas in more detail.
Manual
-~~~~~~
+******
This is a comprehensive guide to BlueBream.
FAQ
-~~~~
+****
These are FAQs collected from mailing lists, blogs and other on-line
resources.
HOWTOs
-~~~~~~
+******
Small documents focusing on specific topics.
Core Development
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+****************
These documents are written for core development team. Always visit
the latest documentation site for recent version of these documents
which is actually used by the developers.
Reference
-~~~~~~~~~
+*********
A complete reference to BlueBream.
.. _intro-thanks:
Thanks
-------
+++++++
There are many people who contributed to BlueBream through the old
Zope 3 project from 2001. In fact, many of the technologies came
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