[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 Developers Cookbook [progress update]

[corey_s at cox.net]

Nice!

Excellent work Stephan - your efforts are very much appreciated!

It's well maintained, updated, detailed documentation like your cookbook
that's gonna allow newbies like me get up to speed quickly, which ultimately 
fosters a much larger base of developers/contributors.


Beers!

Corey


On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:54:02PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> In the last 3 days I spent some time (actually a lot of it) on updating the 
> Zope 3 DevelCookbook.
> 
> First I restructured the table of content a bit, splitting the introduction 
> chapters into smaller sections and converting them to "meta-recipes". This 
> was necessary to satisfy SAMS' cookbook series requirements. I must say that 
> I like the new layout of the book much better as well, since the introduction 
> chapters were too many and too lengthy.
> 
> Next I started updating steps 1-6 of the messageboard demo product. I was 
> amazed that I only had to delete two lines and modify one (removing 
> ContextWrapper references) to get steps 1-5 updated, which is truly amazing 
> after all these geddons. I had to do some more work on step 6, since the I18n 
> tools were not complete when I originally wrote the recipe. Besides updating 
> the code, I updated the recipe texts as well. Steps 1-5 are now complete 
> recipe draft; they used to be still in outline form. In step 6, I added a lot 
> of writing documenting the now complete I18n and L10n tools. Based on 
> Xerophyte's request I made an effort to document ZCML code in much more 
> detail. I also incorporated all other comments made in some of the recipes. 
> 
> The result: Section C, "Content Components - The Basics", is now a solid block 
> of 71 pages of documentation!
> 
> What's next? I am going to work on Section D, "Content Components - Advanced 
> Techniques".
> 
> Regards,
> Stephan