[ale] [OT] AJC Article on State Welfare System

[James P. Kinney III]

The only disadvantage I see to the adding PHP to the Apache-Zope mix is
more server overhead. Since uses python, which the more I use the more I
like, it already has a native logic/glue processor. Especially for a
quasi-static template project such as this (can't go changing the
screens around much. The staff won't follow the changes very well) PHP
would be mostly unneeded overhead.

The big hassle with this project is precisely the bureaucratic inertia
that Irv  has been warning about. Anything written has to be written not
for technical reasons of efficiency, but for bureaucratic reasons of
back-scratching and butt-kissing. The system has to support an
administration process that more resembles marbles bouncing in the back
of a pick-up truck on a dirt road than any deliberate, methodical
process designed by an engineering team. For political reasons, systems
are co-managed (shudder) by multiple groups with different agendas.

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 12:00, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> At 11:27 AM 8/26/2002 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 08:48, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> > > That was my thought.  I'm going to setup a web page with my thoughts on 
> > how
> > > to design this relatively simple system.  I think I can design the server
> > > (Dell, HP, PenguinComputing) with ease, as long as it has redundant
> > > everything, the RDBMS backend, and a demo front end using PHP+APACHE+ZOPE.
> > >
> >
> >I'm curious - what's the incentive to use PHP+APACHE+ZOPE instead of
> >just Zope with Python extensions or at most Zope plus PHP?
> >
> >- Jeff
> 
> That's just the way I've always done it.  I figured someone on the list 
> would have better ideas, and that's why I started the conversation: to get 
> better ideas.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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