[thelist] content management systems

[George Donnelly]

well as you know peter, i am a zope fan. here are some articles about
zope/python. [this is not a comprehensive list]

DevShed - Zope
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Zope/

Builder Buzz - The Most Elegant Scripting Lan...
http://buzz.builder.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@205.KafcawQeu3s^19@.ee7bc67/0

BYTE Column - XML-RPC Programming with Zope, ...
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991021S0014

Comparison of ACS and Zope
http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/ACSandZope

LinuxPlanet - Reviews - The Zope Application ...
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1319/1/

Paul Everitt on Zope and Frontier
http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$7554

The dope on Zope
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-03/f_lw-03-penguin_6.html

WebAdmin: Principia: A Different Breed of App...
http://webserver.cpg.com/wa/3.12/index.html

WebAdmin: Zope Builds on its Success
http://webserver.cpg.com/wa/4.4/

webreview.com - Amos Latteier
http://webreview.com/pub/au/Latteier_Amos

ZDNet: eWEEK: The scoop on Web content manage...
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2329627,00.html

Zope - a Swiss Army Knife for the Web?
http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/zope/vine/vinezope.html

Zope and Frontier compared
http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$4124

Zope-on-a-Rope
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/briefs/038.html

LinuxPlanet - Reviews - The Zope Application ...
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1319/1/

a couple zope - powered sites (tho not the best ones)

http://www.squishdot.org
http://www.worldpilot.org
http://www.vistasource.com/
http://194.80.197.15:8080/sqladdaline
http://www.enterlinux.com/enterlinux/

zope companies
http://www.digicool.com
http://www.beehive.de

where can i try out zope you ask?

get an account on http://www.zope.org
2 free weeks at http://imeme.net
also at http://www.codeit.com/codeit/signup.html

hth

Regards,
GEORGE DONNELLY
george at cyklotron.com
http://cyklotron.com/
"You cannot prove that you exist or that you`re conscious," they chatter,
blanking out the fact that proof presupposes existence. --Ayn Rand

> here's some interesting articles and ideas on content management systems:
> (content management systems are things like vignette storyserver, alaire
> spectra, zope, midgard, Frontier/Manila, Bealers' back-end, the slash
> engine ... that let you manage content)
> 
> a recent article called The Ugly Secret Behind Top Media Sites
> said most content management systems suck and news sites were better off
> writing their own:
> http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,6358,00.html
> 
> That sparked a bit of discussion here and there where the main question
> seemed to be: for a small/medium website, is it better to find a ready to
> go solution and then customise that last 15 % into it, or write one from
> scratch. The answer seems obvious to me: get a pre-written and customise. I
> wonder though what the requirements for a good content management system
> are?? And which ones are the best ones out there??? How can you customise
> and then upgrade? Guys and girls??
> 
> Finally, our hero captain cursor also had some interesting thoughts:
> http://www.captaincursor.com/archive/2000_07_09_index.html#462212
> 
> Peter