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  • From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] working
  • Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:30:48 -1000 (HST)

Aloha,

No worries Chad, I know exactly what you mean...take your time, IMO.

Rich said:
> At this stage I'd almost be inclined just to use a simple plant object
> which a bunch of text strings for a few properties. Just to get
> something working. Start small and build on that. Once thats done I'd
> probably focus on how we cope with edits. I think this is probably the
> hardest programming aspect.

Yep.
A basic zope product that has a plant class with a bunch of plant
properties (not necessarily just strings, as zope provides pre-rolled
options including image file handling), is auto-cataloged (thus
searchable) and allows TTW creation of plant instances and TTW editing of
existing plant instances.

How does that sound, Chad - a bit less pressure? And does it fit as a
base to build on, or do you have a different starting point in mind?

Edits to data are not difficult technically.
I'm guessing it's the moderation/administration/security aspects of them
you're referring to?

> Money wise I think head scratching time is just as valuable as actually
> coding. From my experience of putting together complicated OO systems
> the hard part is deciding what object there are, once thats done
> the actual coding is fairly straitforward. I think it should be rewarded
> as such.

Agree (been doing a fair bit of head-scratching lately on a project...).

> I've also a suspicision that actually coding in zope will make things a
> bit harder to start with.

I can contribute a real-world code example, except it's not for plant
objects, it's for art empowerment workshop objects, but functionally about
the same as above.

OTOH you might be able to just roll one out as fast or faster than I could
gather all the relevant files and pass them along...you did say you were
reading zope source code, yes?... ;-)


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