[Grok-dev] Re: Web site ready for relaunch?

Sebastian Ware sebastian at urbantalk.se
Wed Jan 23 08:34:23 EST 2008


23 jan 2008 kl. 13.52 skrev Kevin Teague:

> I've also been thinking it would be quite nice to add TAL docs to  
> the Grok doc site. When people new to Zope want to learn TAL I  
> usually tell them too Google for "plope tal". Aside from the funny  
> looks I get when I say the word "plope" the TAL docs from The Zope  
> Book doesn't always make sense in the context of Grok, there are  
> things such as:
>
> "A good rule of thumb is that if you need Python to express your  
> logic, you better factor out the code into a script. But Zope is a  
> good tool for prototyping and sometimes it would be overkill to  
> write a script for one line of code."

I am considering writing a document on this on the basis of realising  
that TAL/METAL is a lot more versatile than I previously thought. I  
have just moved lots of presentation logic from "render_yada_yada()"  
methods to page templates and it is a very intersting excercise.

Mvh Sebastian


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