[Zope] IPC 9 News?

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:23:58 -0500


Oops.. regarding Bruce Eckel:

"He also gave a great keynote about why he loves Zope."

s/Zope/Python/g

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com>
To: "David Burton" <eloquence@eloquent-designs.f2s.com>; "Peter Bengtsson"
<peter@grenna.net>; "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] IPC 9 News?


> The Zope track went well...
>
> Andy McKay demoed Perl for Zope, and although I missed most of his
> presentation, I thought his use of the Tolkien Calendar module for Perl
> inside Zope demonstrated the usefulness of the Perl for Zope stuff pretty
> well.  Python doesn't have a Tolkien Calendar module.  ;-)
>
> Jim gave a talk about presentation templates which went over well...
>
> We had a BOF (birds of a feather) about Enterprise Zope that illustrated
> some challenges folks have running Zope in an "enterprise" environment.
>
> There was also a CMF BOF (in the bar, of course ;-)
>
> Two presentations were given by Michel Pelletier (well, one and a half,
> actually)... one on Interfaces and the other on documentation process.
>
> Paul Everitt gave a state of the Zope address, and as usual, accepted all
> the blame.  ;-)
>
> Steve Spicklemire demoed and explained ZCVSMixin, very interesting.
>
> George Lively gave a great presentation on using extreme programming in
the
> context of Zope.  Complete with foozball pictures.
>
> Carlos de la Guardia gave a presentation on using Zpoe as a standard web
> development platform, which was an interesting perspective.
>
> Chuck Esterbrook demoed WebWare for Python, which is like a Python
> implementation of Java servlets... you can use a bunch of Zope stuff in
> there too.
>
> Titus Brown asked us for tech info on how to integrate Zope and
AOLServer...
> I couldn't help him too much unfortunately.  Ethan seemed pretty jazzed
> about the idea, hopefully we can talk with him some more.
>
> Phillip Eby gave a talk on TransWarp and the future of ZPatterns.  I
didn't
> attend, as he had given us an overview of transwarp in the office.
>
> John Ehresman and Stephan Deibel gave a talk on using Wing IDE to debug
Zope
> and Zope products... I didn't attend this one unfortunately.
>
> Mark Hammond gave a talk about .NET that I did attend.... doesn't look
like
> its very useful in the context of Zope.  I unfortunately missed Paul
Dubois'
> talk on SOAP and Python, which would have been much more useful.
>
> We helped Bruce Eckel (ANSI C++ committee member and keynote speaker at
the
> conference) get his personal website running on Zope.  That was fun.  He
> also gave a great keynote about why he loves Zope.
>
> Christian Tismer presented on Stackless Python:  "Programming the way
Guido
> prevented it" (the tshirt slogan for DC at the conference was "programming
> the way Guido indented it").
>
> There's a bunch of other stuff that I've forgotten or left out
> intentionally.  One other important thing is the Digital Creations (with
> honorary members Frederick Lundh, Arnus?, and Chris Tismer) lost to
> ActiveState in a drinking contest on Wed. night.  Those canadians can
drink.
>
> - C
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Burton" <eloquence@eloquent-designs.f2s.com>
> To: "Peter Bengtsson" <peter@grenna.net>; "Chris Withers"
> <chrisw@nipltd.com>
> Cc: <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] IPC 9 News?
>
>
> > The author is Jochen Lillich - and I agree it's a good article.
> > David
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Bengtsson" <peter@grenna.net>
> > To: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
> > Cc: <zope@zope.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Zope] IPC 9 News?
> >
> >
> > > No is my answer to your question but I know that Linux Magazine has a
> very
> > > good article on application servers and Zope.
> > > Can't remember the name of the author right now, but this article is
> good
> > to
> > > have around to show people who don't know what Zope is.
> > > I think Linux Magazine is a UK paper. (?)
> > > I'm definitly buy a copy to send over to my swedish zope friends ;)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
> > > To: <zope@zope.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 1:48 PM
> > > Subject: [Zope] IPC 9 News?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if anyone had any cool news from the Zope track at
IPC
> 9
> > > for
> > > > those of us who can't make it?
> > > >
> > > > cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > >
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