October 1999 - Zope-Announce

ANNOUNCE: CompressedStorage
by Ty Sarna 11 Oct '99

11 Oct '99

ANNOUNCE: CompressedStorage http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/CompressedStorage This is an experimental storage that layers over another storage, compressing objects larger than a certain threshold (default 2K). You will need to know how to use custom_zodb to play with this. Since it is experimental, don't blame me (but do tell me!) if this turns your ZODB into mincemeat. Thanks to Jim Fulton for suggestions on how best to implement this.

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Zope.org maintenance - reboots today between 6:30 and 7:30 PM EST
by Ken Manheimer 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

We're finishing up some maintenance on zope.org, and will have to do some reboots *this evening*, between 6:30 and 7:30 PM EST (3:30 and 4:30 PM PST). Sorry about the short lead time... Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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KnowledgeKit moves to v1.6
by Bill Anderson 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

Well, after some reworking, I have released a new version of the KnowledgeKit Product. I felt the change was worthy of incrementing to 1.6 as there have been a lot of internal rewrites that were never released. Much has changed, IMO it is for the better.Now it is usable out of the box. Be sure to check the Release Information for details on the new system. Note, I just got this turned out, so there _may_ be a few undocumented features at this point (in fact, I am sure there are), and even a wee bug or two (maybe?). Let me know of there are any bugs, I'll squash em. Bill Anderson -- "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan

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Zope.org maintenance and brief downtime
by Ken Manheimer 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

We're shuffling things around a bit on zope.org, in particular to incorporate a new disk. In the process i'm going to have to bring down the web site for 3 to 5 minutes. I'm aiming to do this later this evening (oct 6) at 10 PM EST, which i believe is the same as 3 AM Oct 7 GMT, and 7 PM zope.org system time. Heads up! Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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ANN: Squishdot 0.3.0 (new feature release)
by Squishdot 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

Hi all, I've released a new version of Squishdot (ver. 0.3.0) which incorporates the "re" patch -- it now works fine with Zope 2 out of the box. Aside from numerous bug fixes, it has two new major features: * a preview posting/comment button/screen - which will allow you to see what your posting will look like. * a RDF/RSS page (useful for content syndication) It also has some internal changes which make it easier to customize its validation of articles/comments. If you're installing Squishdot from scratch, I would suggest using the latest version. BUT if you are however already running a Squishdot site (with a lot of data and/or customizations which you want preserved), there are some slight complications if you plan to upgrade to the new version (due to the internal changes I've made) -- please check the updated documentation. In addition, I've also deprecated the old squishdot site at http://members.tripod.com/squishdot/index.html. I've started to use the http://squishdot.org as the new Squishdot home page. You can read the updated documentation at http://squishdot.org/Documentation You can download the latest version at http://squishdot.org/Download/Squishdot or at http://www.zope.org/Members/butchland/Squishdot Best regards, Butch ===== Butch Landingin Squishdot maintainer http://members.tripod.com/squishdot/index.html squishdot(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

Hello, It's been a exciting week in Zopeland. The Zope community is cooking up a lot of great stuff! Martijn Fassan and Anthony Pfrunder are working on xml-based content formatting and behavior projects. Ty Sarna is pushing Zope's database capabilities by adding Berkeley DB support. It's hard to keep up with all the great new Zope products and documentation. As always Zope.org is the best place to look for most of the exciting new stuff. * Anthony Pfrunder announced his VisualZope Product which looks quite interesting, though it is very early in development at this point. VisualZope is a collection of ZClasses to provide easy support for javascript/DHTML within the Zope environment. http://www.zope.org/Members/NoneToBe/VisualStudio/new_html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001721.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001708.html * Martijn Fassan's XMLWidgets is another exciting Zope Project. XMLWidgets allows you to author content in XML and then create behaviors for the XML. http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/XMLWidgets * Mark Pratt announced that Katrin Kirchner has translated three Zope how-to's into German. http://www.zope.de/bibliothek/How-Tos/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-October/000042.html * Ty Sarna announced a preliminary version of a Berkeley DB based ZODB storage. This is great news, and marks a great step forward for ZODB. http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/BerkeleyStorage * Paul Everitt announced more information about Zope training. http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/Training/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011453.html * Pam Crosby announced updated Zope documentation, including the still incomplete Zope Developer's Guide and Zope Administrator's Guide. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011462.html * Jeffrey Shell announced the LDAP Roadmap. http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/LDAP_Roadmap http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011571.html * A number of folks are giving talks on Zope throughout the world. Anthony Baxter spoke in Victoria, Australia, and Chris McDonough will be speaking in Philadelphia, USA. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011597.html http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/talks/luv/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/011333.html http://www.op.net/~darxus/plug/anouncement/anouncement.html * Johan Carlsson announced a Zope Internet Explorer Editor Project. http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/zie-news1 * Evelyn Mitchell has written an article on Python for IBM's DeveloperWorks. It mentions Zope. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html * Computer Sweden published an article on Zope by Erik Geijer. http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=990930-CS5 * Hungarian Chip Magazine published an article on Zope by Arpad Kiss. http://www.zope.org/Members/sekter/zopearticle2 Keep on Zopin' -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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3 How-To's translated to German
by Mark Pratt 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

hello all, just wanted to announce that Katrin Kirchner has translated three how-to's into German. they are: - Advanced DTML Techniques - Looping in DTML - ZCatalog Tutorial you can find them here: http://www.zope.de/bibliothek/How-Tos/ regards, mark -------------------------------------------------------------- mark pratt (managing director) mark(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299

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