[Zope3-dev] Just introducing myself

[Carl Lambert]

Hi Guys,

I've been getting this list for a few weeks now and i thought it was 
about time i introduced myself.

My name is Carl Lambert and I'm a developer living and working in 
Derbyshire, UK.  I'm 29 years old with a wife and 2 kids and one on the 
way :).

Ive been coding professionally for about 6 years, starting with VB6, 
asp, html, js etc. moving onto C# (winforms)a couple of years later, in 
which ive been coding in up until August last year.

I first heard about python a couple of years ago, however at the time i 
was working for a predominantly MS house and with real life getting in 
the way (did i mention i had kids) i didnt really get time to 
investigate as i would have liked.  this all changed last August when i 
got a new job as the only developer for a small isp with several 
development interests. this was my first real play with asp.net and i 
hated it. I cant really put my finger on it but it just felt wrong. 
(althought this could be the fact that i had inherited all the asp.net 
projucts from my predicessor. who was obviously in need of a little 
mentoring.)

Being the only developer in company and how having technical control of 
all new products, I decided to have a look round at what my options 
were, and a friend suggested i take a look at zope. So I read "dive into 
python" & "the zope book"  had a play with zope2.4 and created a couple 
of simple proof of concepts for some little internal systems.

this is turning out to be a lot longer than i anticipated... nearly done 
now ;)

Earlier this year a new project dropped in my inbox and i decided zope 
would be the way forward, and with the release of zope3, I thought i 
would give it a try.

So here i am, a zope novice, with a pretty big project and a mid october 
deadline.

I've racked up quite a few questions, but ill let you digest that lot 
first, (sorry it was so long)

Regards

Carl Lambert