Byte.com: A Zope Primer: The Calendar Tag as an example of Zope

[ Thanks to Chris McDonough for this
link. ]

“This week, the subject of Zope came up again. I’d been pounding
my head against the wall trying to figure some things out, and
finally posted an exasperated plea to my newsgroup, in which I
detailed some problems getting Zope’s ZCatalog search engine to
search Zope’s own source code.”

“Why? Well, I’ve begun to be productive in Zope, and would like
to be more productive. The overwhelming bottleneck is availability
of information. It struck me that Zope could use something like
Mozilla’s searchable, cross-referenced source viewer. Is there such
a tool that groks Python syntax rather than C, I
wondered?“

“Apparently not, and despite some helpful suggestions from folks
on the Zope mailing list, I haven’t solved that ZCatalog problem
yet either. But despite the immaturity of Zope and its
documentation, I’ve got to admit I’ve been bitten by the bug. I’m
doing some really useful stuff with the product, and this week I
decided it was time to give something back. If the major bottleneck
is documentation, why not contribute some of my own? So here’s a
quick tutorial on Zope’s Calendar Tag, which I hope will convey the
flavor of Zope programming.”

Complete
Story