Learning Zope

Since I attended the Vancouver Python Workshop last weekend, I’ve been inspired to start digging a little deeper into Zope. The first thing I noticed is that The Zope Book at Zope.org is based on Zope 2.6, but Zope is actually at version 2.7.2. There is, however, an update underway. It’s just not happening at zope.org. So go here instead: The Zope Book (2.7 Edition: development).

The Zope book is good, but I much prefered this hands-on tutorial: Introduction to Zope 2.6: The New Zope Zoo. It takes you through building a simple Zope application and really gets you thinking in terms of building an application and not just a web page. Highly recommended.

The other pleasant surprise for me last night was the disccovery that the USENET group comp.lang.python is actually quite active, and is a really useful resource. It’s literally been years since I’ve read USENET, and it felt sort of like stepping back in time. I started reading via Google Groups, and it’s great and all, but I quickly went out looking for a news reader client for OS X and discovered Unison from Panic. What a wonderful news reader! So I read USENET on my laptop into the wee hours of the morning. It could have been 1994, except my powerbook is a lot prettier than the cheap 386 laptop I had in university.