Been looking at alternatives to Apache (as part of my now ever-present shourt ou course… anyway I found Zope. It’s a totally different approach to designing and building web pages, based mainly around Python. Well it’s different from anything I’m used to.

It’s essentially an application server, web server, templating system, etc, etc – all in one. Also a curious but attractive language called DTML (document template markup language). Would I put lots of time and effort into learning it to build the kinds of things I already can? Well, just maybe. There are of course other similar all-in-one application servers available – like ruby on rails