As a physics/physical science lab instructor at the local university, the discovery of the unit conversion feature on Google has been extremely handy. Now when students ask whether their conversion are correct or not, I can point them to a quick easy place where they can check their own work.
In the google search box type "80 calories in joules" and voila.
When we were just playing with the idea of planning our new house, we found a copy of 3DHA 3.0 at the local public library which worked fairly well for getting floorplan ideas on paper.
As we got more serious about trying to get a good set of ideas to our architect for final plans, we thought we'd splurge for the latest version (5.0 at the time). We thought the updated 3D rendering would be a lot of help in deciding what worked and what did not in terms of laying out the house. That was the worst $50 I've ever spent. Fortunately someone on ebay thougt the software was a good deal at $25 so I was able to cut my losses.
So I guess what I'm saying is the older versions were quite usable but I would stay far away from the 5.0 version.
I would tend to agree that zope would provide many of the required features. However, there may be circumstances (like using a hosting service such as hostrocket) where zope is not practical. Zope needs to be run under a separate process and port. What then? Is there another product as easy to use which provides the same ease of access control and features but based on perl or php in conjunction with mysql?
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As a physics/physical science lab instructor at the local university, the discovery of the unit conversion feature on Google has been extremely handy. Now when students ask whether their conversion are correct or not, I can point them to a quick easy place where they can check their own work.
In the google search box type "80 calories in joules" and voila.
When we were just playing with the idea of planning our new house, we found a copy of 3DHA 3.0 at the local public library which worked fairly well for getting floorplan ideas on paper.
As we got more serious about trying to get a good set of ideas to our architect for final plans, we thought we'd splurge for the latest version (5.0 at the time). We thought the updated 3D rendering would be a lot of help in deciding what worked and what did not in terms of laying out the house. That was the worst $50 I've ever spent. Fortunately someone on ebay thougt the software was a good deal at $25 so I was able to cut my losses.
So I guess what I'm saying is the older versions were quite usable but I would stay far away from the 5.0 version.
I would tend to agree that zope would provide many of the required features. However, there may be circumstances (like using a hosting service such as hostrocket) where zope is not practical. Zope needs to be run under a separate process and port. What then? Is there another product as easy to use which provides the same ease of access control and features but based on perl or php in conjunction with mysql?