"Getting started" Screencasts

Paul Everitt: Installing Zope 3 on Windows

In this screencast, which is available from the ZEA Partners screencast library, Paul Everitt explains how to install Zope 3 on Windows.

http://zeapartners.org/scl/2006/04/25/z3-install/z3-install.html

Paul Everitt: Hello World

Paul demonstrates how to get started with a very simple Hello World application in Zope 3. Try this if you're completely lost.

http://zeapartners.org/scl/2006/04/25/z3-helloworld/z3-helloworld.html

Baiju M: Hello World

This screencast shows how you how to get started with Zope 3 (on Linux), from creating an instance to the first Hello World appearing in the web browser. Once again, fine work by Baiju M.

http://zissue.berlios.de/z3/hello.swf

DZUG: Dozen Dirty Tricks

The German-speaking Zope User Group (DZUG), namely Christian Theune, has created several screencasts to typical Zope 3 problems. Even if you don't understand German, the speaker has such a soft voice, she could make Russian sound better than French. Plus, you can still see what's going on without listening to the voice. Let's votsch ze screencast, yah!

http://www.zope.de/tricks

Tutorials

Jeffrey Shell's TODO application

This tutorial started out as a series of blog posts by Jeffrey Shell and is now being maintained by me on worldcookery.com. Inspired by Ruby on Rails' Todo List Tutorial, it describes the creation of a simple TODO application in five steps and is a good read for jumping into Zope 3.

http://worldcookery.com/files/jeffshell-todo

Benji York's Quick Start Guide

Benji York, a Zope Corporation employee and developer of some cutting-edge Zope 3 technology, put together a Quick Start Guide demonstrating how to write a simple "Hello World" application with Zope 3 and how to dive into the more advanced Zope 3 framework from there. This is a very suitable appetizer for people with a Python background.

http://www.benjiyork.com/quick_start/

Zope 3 in 30 minutes

This other entry-level article has been written by Baiju M. In contrast to the Quick Start Guide, this article introduces Zope 3 with a "real" application, an online book marker. Like the Quick Start Guide, it quickly dives into the matter and provides an excellent entry to Zope 3.

http://zissue.berlios.de/z3/Zope3In30Minutes.html

Paul Carduner's Zope 3 Class

Paul Carduner teaches you Zope 3 in his class room. During class you will build the timeclock application, based upon several user stories. The style of this tutorial is refreshingly different because it is, well, like a class room--questions from the students included! You don't want to be late for this class...

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/pyBiblio/courses/zope3class/

XML-RPC with Zope 3

Tarek Ziadé of Nuxeo has put together a small tutorial on how to do server-side XML-RPC with Zope 3. Since this is a blog entry, the text is not fancy and it doesn't go into great detail (links to details are provided, though). Overall, the article gives a nice dive-in into the topic and makes another great, albeit topic-specific appetizer.

http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/tarek_ziade/2005_11_04_xml-rpc-over-zope-3

Zope 3 Cookbook, Glossary, Wiki (German)

The Max Planck Society, a well reknown German research organization, is using Zope 3 for internal projects and have documented their experiences, solutions and ideas in a large wiki. It's a great place for German speakers to find some answers, or to contribute solutions you found yourself. After all, it's a wiki!

http://zope3.mpg.de/

Zope 2 and Five

Five for Plone developers

This five steps tutorial is based on a 90-minute tutorial talk I gave at the Plone Conference 2005 in Vienna. It shows demonstrates how to add an Atom feed to a Plone site in addition to the already present RSS feed, but in this case using Zope 3 technologies through Five. While doing that, it also demonstrates how non-Plone-specific parts of the extension can be "pushed down the stack" and made ready to work with other applications.

http://worldcookery.com/files/ploneconf05-five

I18n with Five

This short tutorial discusses the internationalization (i18n) support introduced to Zope 2 by the means of the Five product. It compares current Zope-2-based solutions with the Zope 3 i18n framework and gives pointers on how to use it in Zope 2 applications. It is directed at people with experience in writing i18n-aware software for Zope, it is not an introduction of i18n in general. It is not an in-depth discussion of the topic either.

http://worldcookery.com/files/fivei18n

Using zope.formlib with Plone

In this series, Rocky Burt takes on the tasks of explaining how to facilitate Zope 3 technology in Plone. This does not only entail Zope 3's new form framework, zope.formlib, but also a lot of other cutting edge technology, such as setuptools and Python Paste. A must-read for all Plone developers who want to use Zope 3 technology.

http://serverzen.net/weblog/archive/2006/06/08/using-zopeformlib-with-plone-part-1 http://serverzen.net/weblog/archive/2006/06/10/using-zopeformlib-with-plone-part-2 http://serverzen.net/weblog/archive/2006/07/09/using-zopeformlib-with-plone-part-3

Object events

Florent Guillaume, lead developer of Nuxeo, has documented how Zope 3 style events can now be used in Zope 2 and how that deprecates a terribly old and inflexible Zope 2 API (after having implemented these changes himself). He also wades through some Zope 3 framework by explaining how object events work in Zope 3. Way to go, Florent.

http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/florent_guillaume/2005_11_08_events-in-zope-2-9 http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/florent_guillaume/2005_11_10_object-event-dispatching