On newsforge Robin Miller claims that internet applications is a bad idea. He lists three reasons. 1: loss of connection, 2: connection outage and 3, connection failure. OK, so he really mentions only one reason, but he mentions it three times in different variations. Yes, internet connections between X and Y is not 100% reliable. Not only can your hardware or software ...

If you wonder why it has been so long between 1.0 and 1.3 of the CalCore/CalZope/CPSSharedCalendar trio, then the answer is not only vacation, and a whole bunch of big new features, but also that every time I have been close to releasing a new version, I have first released it to some of our trusty customers for testing. And they have promptly found bugs, which I then fixed, ...

You are in a maze of twisty little config files, all alike I'm currently preparing to create a non-Zope bundle of CalCore and all it's dependencies. Since these dependencies are mostly Zope 3 packages (interface and schema) it seems natural to use Zope Corps tool for this: zpkg. Unfortunately zpkg is a complex tool with cryptic documentation. I have made packages with ...

I see many questions on the differences between Zope 2 and Zope 3 on mailing lists. Here is a short attempt to answer some of the most common ones. Should I use Zope 2 or Zope 3? Short answer: If you need a product that runs on Zope 2, like for example CPS, Plone or Silva, you should use Zope 2. Otherwise you should use Zope3. Long answer: Zope2 and ...