Zope: Web Application Development and Content Management (Landmark (New Riders)) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ Jerry Spicklemire (Author), Steve Spicklemire (Author), Kevin Friedly (Author), Kim Brand (Author)

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To the end user a Zope website appears to be powered by just another web server, as it undoubtedly should. However, web developers need to be aware of some basic principles in order to take the best advantage of Zope¿s special abilities. They also need to be able to develop applications that are effective in gaining intimate familiarity and subtle details of coding practices unique to Zope.

In Zope: Web Application Development and Content Management, emphasis is placed on effectively using Zope at the earliest possible point and then quickly learning to use Zope itself as a powerful toolkit to continue developing the website. Detailed explanations are included to assure that the reader can readily understand the critical role of objects as the building blocks to Zope.

In the final chapters special attention is paid to vital concerns of a sophisticated production environment. Zope is a full-featured environment, quite capable of supporting genuine state of the art commercial websites, but not without diligent application of competent knowledge. The needs of mission critical users are covered in detail.

From the Author

We hope that you will find this book provides the help you need to make the most of the Web. Zope truly is a new and completely different way to look at web development and content management. As such it sometimes requires a new way of thinking about the problem.

While changing your "way of thinking" can be very difficult, we're excited about it because we feel it enables us to produce much better results, and we think you'll feel the same way once you give it a try.

--Steve, Kevin, Jerry, and Kim

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Sams; illustrated edition edition (December 12, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735711100
• ISBN-13: 978-0735711105
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,612,012 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A jumble of disconnected stuff..., August 11, 2002

By	Joel Burton (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This book tries to cover slightly different ground than "how to start using Zope to develop web sites." If you're looking for a good general introduction to Zope, I'd look at either Beehive's The Book of Zope, or the Zope Book (the online edition at zope.org; the printed version is quite out-of-date).

This book is basically a walkthrough of several products for Zope (the CMF, ZPatterns, ZUBB, etc.) I doubt you'll find that you've learned much about how to use Zope or how to develop for it, rather than a thin bit about how to apply these products.

I also found that this book felt rather hastily put-together, without much continuity between chapters.

The only reason I'd recommend this book is if you're looking to learn about ZPatterns, and chances are, you aren't.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Building dynamic web sites with Zope made easy!, February 1, 2002

By	Steven Popovitch (ann arbor, mi USA) - See all my reviews

I have been disapointed by "The book of Zope" and "The Zope book", as they did not help me solve the problems I encountered, or give me a high level vision of how Zope works and how to make the different components work together.
This book is different. It contains all new material, and takes you by the hand on how to build a complex web site, making different components and technologies work together. After my frustration with the other books, I couldn't stop reading this one, and I only wish it had been available sooner.
If you are interested in Zope, and want to build a non-trivial web site, this is an excellent book to get! It will also tell you how to make sure that your web site can scale to lots of users (external databases) or high traffic.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Outdated and Incoherent, August 30, 2002

By A Customer

This book is both outdated (it discusses extensively Zope extensions that are no longer supported) and incoherent (it is
just a collection of unrelated example projects only loosely
tied together by the common theme of managing some content on a
web site). You're better off with the Zope Bible (for Zope) and the Content Management Bible (for CM issues generally). However,
there are a few useful things in it so if you can get it for
$5-10 as a remaindered book, go for it.