OT: hotbuy O'Reilly's Perl Resource Kit $150.00 value for 9.99 for UNIX with CD's

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:56:55PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Campbell done said:
> > On Thu, May 27, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > >On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > >> OT from this OT, I would like to find something similar to this that
> > >> addresses python, zope, and plone packages and products as I'm just
> > >> starting to climb that learning curve.
> > >
> > >Before you muck around with plone, look at EZRO.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate on that a bit or point me to documentation that
> > compares plone and EZRO?  Amongst my major concerns are the availability
> > and documentation of open source products that work with these.
> > 
> > It looks like I can install the EZRO product on an existing zope system
> > that's already running plone.
> 
> Some days, I feel like I woke up after a 5 year nap, and wonder where all
> these new projects came from.  I've heard of zope, though I have no idea
> what it is.  Never even heard of plone or ESRO.  *chuckle*

Indeed.

After finding the beautiful, but *miserable* to install, WebGUI, I
realized that my problem with *all* the layered Zope CMS's were that
they weren't WebGUI -- it just drives that much better.

EZRO seems to be it's equivalent: you don't drive site management
through the ZMI, you drive it right from the pages, by turning "site
manager mode" on.  I *think*; I haven't installed it yet.

Google for it.

> More a case of tightly focused interest, I suppose, but it really can make
> one feel like they've lost touch in a hurry.  This really fast
> proliferation of so many OSS projects is exactly what has made sourceforge
> and freshmeat more useless than CPAN, IMHO.  It's incredibly hard to keep
> up with the ever-more-crowded arena of OSS software.  The only thing worse
> is how many projects are started and then abandoned, leaving the trail of
> breadcrumbs even harder to follow to what you need.

:-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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