I'm back, again, after a long weekend. This time I stayed in the valley, but spent a lot of time either at the dentist or with family. I'm actually feeling quite rested. It will be good to get back into the game.
I have a lot of work ahead of me this week. I'm looking forward to most of it, actually. What I'm up to is similar to Archetypes, a content-type development system for Plone, except that my system is for developing so-called "disk based components" for administering data in a RDBMS instead of ZODB content. But both Archetypes and my work probably owe a lot to Zope 3's Schema/Editform system, where a Schema is part of an Interface contract, which can also be used to generate HTML (or other targeted) forms for editing. Overall, it's a much better way to work - describe your data, automatically generate forms, and get a validation framework in the process. It definitely beats building HTML Forms (a very mundane process) manually. We've been using Formulator for months to build public-facing user interfaces, but the interfaces for administrators has suffered.
Now that chapter is finally closing behind us.