Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

I am still feeling dfficulty to unerstand what's happening behind ZCML (Zope Configuration Markup Language). But still I like it, because it is not Python :) Python is my favourite language, so I cann't say what else I won't be doing in my configuration. Jeff Shell's suggestions in this long mail is great! http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-December/001732.html He also warns Rails-ish frameworks in this mail and his recent blogs: http://griddlenoise.blogspot.com/

Today is another Sunday, I spend with Zope3 again. First I thought to experiment with Zissue Tracker, but only few renaming done so far. But I wandered through many blog entries related to Zope3. Also, I created a page to aggregate my Zope3 works. http://zissue.berlios.de/z3/

Philipp von Weitershausen, the author of "Web Component Development with Zope 3" has given a list of entry level articles here: http://www.worldcookery.com/Appetizers My article is too listed.

Two year back I was a Koha (http://www.koha.org) consultant, may be the first Koha consultant from India. I did two successful installations, but later when I got a job I stopped my consultancy works. Actually I got many offers from all over India to install Koha. But I found it will be very difficult to support many clients alone. Though two of my customers was happy. Yesterday (Sunday), I visited one of customer. They required few changes in OPAC. In five hours somehow I completed that work. I was constantly referring perlintro, perlretut etc. I think it will be very difficult for a Python programmer to do Perl programming. I have written a document and scripts for ISIS to Koha migrators: http://www.kohadocs.org/CDS_ISIS_to_Koha.html (ISIS versions are distributed by UNESCO since late 60s. and there lots of installation world wide.) Hmm.. now I will get back to office works, I got lots responses for my Zope3 article, so I will improve it.

I just started writing a small tutorial for Zope3: http://zissue.berlios.de/z3/Zope3In30Minutes.html Actually, this is just to summarise, what I have already learn. So don't hesitate to write your feed backs to : baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Last week I send a mail to: webmaster at python.org to subscribe my blog feed to planet.python.org any other contacts?

I created few views and wrote some unit and functional tests, though learning very slow still... I was very excited when my first functional test got run. Now I am catching up with Test Driven Development, but documention is still poor. Subversion repository is here: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/zissue/ I am also planning few simple Zope3 apps, so that I can easily make my first stable release. Day after to morrow is our election to 'Panchayath' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayat

Yesterday was Thiruvonam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onam) And I didn't made any progress in Zope3 learning, Also I was wondering about this problem: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-September/001031.html Today only I got a solution: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-September/001038.html Just to track my development, I created a project at BerliOS: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/zissue/ I have committed the source to Subversion, to check out: svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/zissue/trunk/zissue So far only few interfaces, today I will create one view for Comments, and I have to figure out how to handle attachments (implement IFile, how?).