Re: Manual about the Zope Component Architecture

Israel Saeta Pérez wrote:

> You're right we should avoid duplicating what's already documented for 
> Zope. I guess our intention here is trying to provide a soft 
> introduction to the ZCA focusing on what's specifically relevant to 
> Plone, and link Zope docs and doctest for further information. Something 
> similar to chaper 9 of PPD.

Mmmm.... You could just suggest people buy the book.  ;)

Seriously, though - I think it'd be better to create something
different, rather than try to replicate what's in PPD, only without the
copyright.

My suggestion would be to focus on practical applications rather than go
into detail of theory. Chapter 9 of my book is pretty heavy going, and
only really helps those who've already got some taste of how things
work. Look at Brandon Craig Rhodes' "How to use Grok to walk like a
duck" tutorial, for example. It does a great job of building up *why*
things like adapters are useful, and where they may be used. I think a
series of examples built up like that, based on practical Plone use
cases, would add a lot of value.

Martin

-- 
Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book


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