August 1999 - Zope-Announce

ANNOUNCE: beehive releases mkproduct
by Mark Pratt 31 Aug '99

31 Aug '99

hello all, we have decided to open source mkproduct which together with skeletons can seriously reduce your time spent building zope products. mkproduct is used extensively at beehive to rapidly build prototypes. do check out our documentation availible in both german and english. get mkproduct at www.zope.de/software/mkproduct this is beehive's way of saying thanks to all the nice people in the zope community! regards, mark, basti, katrin, alex -------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ANNOUNCE: ZOracleDA v2.1.0 released
by Christopher Petrilli 30 Aug '99

30 Aug '99

I'm proud to announce the release of the new v2.1.0 instantiation of the ZOracleDA product. This provides two advantages over the previous release: * Integration with the Zope2 transaction machienery * Full thread safety (level 3 DA) In addition, we've tried to resolve all outstanding issues that we could reproduce. It includes the new release of DCOracle as well! Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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Zope 2.0.0b6 released...
by Jim Fulton 27 Aug '99

27 Aug '99

Zope 2.0.0 beta 6 is available at: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b6 This release has a number of minor bug fixes. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.

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Zope 2.0.0b5 released...
by Jim Fulton 26 Aug '99

26 Aug '99

Zope 2.0.0 beta 6 is available at: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b6 This release has a number of minor bug fixes. -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.

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Zope article in Hungarian
by Arpad Kiss 26 Aug '99

26 Aug '99

Hi, In the September issue of the Hungarian Chip Magazine there is a Zope article written by me. This is the first part of my three part series. Arpad Kiss

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ANNOUNCE: ZCommerce Mailing List
by Nick Garcia 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

We've set up a mailing list strictly for the purposes of discussing E-Commerce solutions using Zope. We like to call it ZCommerce. Anyone who is interested in subscribing can either go to http://lists.codeit.com/mailman/listinfo/zcommerce to subscribe, or email zcommerce-request(a)codeit.com with 'subscribe' as the subject to be added to the list. To post to the list, email zcommerce(a)codeit.com. Any questions, inquiries, suggestions, flames, hate mail, mailbombs, etc... should be directed to support(a)codeit.com. Nick Garcia | ngarcia(a)codeit.com CodeIt Computing | http://codeit.com

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ANN: Redirector 1.0
by Alexander Staubo 23 Aug '99

23 Aug '99

Redirector is an experimental folder product for redirecting object requests. Any request to a subobject (whether it exists or not) in the folder is redirected to a designated target URL. A flexible mechanism for mapping specific URLs is also provided. For example, you might have an URL such as http://oldserver/foo (running Zope, of course) which you've moved to your brand new server http://newserver/bar (Zope not required). Once you have deleted or moved the foo folder or object out of the way, create a Redirector object called foo on the new server, set its Target property to http://newserver/bar, following which requests for http://oldserver/foo will then be redirected to http://newserver/bar. Given this, if a user then requests http://oldserver/foo/fnargh, the request will simply be redirected to http://newserver/bar/fnargh. The Redirector object also supports mapping rules: For example, if the old server had a subobject called "milk", which now exists on the new server under the name of "honey", then you can create a mapping which simply maps the old object to the new object. Mappings support (or rather, require) regular expressions to be used, so you could also map any object starting with the letter M to a specific object, for example. (Support for regular expression groups are planned.) Added bonus feature: If you set the Redirector to "hard mapping" mode, it will fall back to the default target URL if none of the mappings match the requested URL. That means -- if you're like me, converting a dull old Netscape server to a new Zope site with lots of magic fairy dust added -- that you can create mappings for all the old documents that should be redirected to their Zopefied counterpart URLs, but for all the documents that are deprecated on the new server, the redirection will be set to the server's root folder. Thie product is experimental only in the sense that it has not been extensively tested. Please report bugs, problems, or inconsistencies to me. http://www.mop.no/~alex/download/redirector-1.0.tgz -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "QED?" said Russell. "It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, 'So there you bastard'." --Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_

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Zope 2.0.0b5 released...
by Brian Lloyd 20 Aug '99

20 Aug '99

Hi all. Zope 2.0.0 beta 5 is now available on both zope.org and the zope.org beta site. This release addresses quite a few issues, including all of the known must-fix bugs - details can be found in the CHANGES.txt online or in the distribution. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Pam Crosby 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Hello, A major thread this week has been documentation. Below are two entries about the current process for addressing Zope documentation needs. The ZDP community continues to volunteer their efforts and talents to make Zope the best it can be. Digital Creations will be announcing their efforts in the documentation area, SOON. * Brian Lloyd's Zope article at Devshed has continued to generate an interesting discussion about Zope. http://www.devshed.com * Paul Everitt posted a note concerning a poll pitting AOLserver, Zope, Enhydra, and others. http://www.LinuxDev.Net/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008088.html The mailing lists have been quite active, the documentation discussion has spawn efforts from several directions. * Bradford Hull experienced extreme frustration with the available Zope documentation that started a lively discussion. Many community members added their frustrations to the lists and possible solutions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008268.html * Stephan Richter is gathering goal requirements for the Zope Documentation Project. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000607.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000576.html * Brian Lloyd answered an query about "pluggable brains" that added some light to the possibilities of such "brains". http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html * A.M. Kuchling released an alpha version of the product that lets you browse through RDF dumps from the Open Directory Project. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008215.html * Alexander Staubo published a Guest Counter product whose class instances can count the number of "guests" to a web site. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008244.html * Phil Harris announced ZMySQLDA for Win32. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008166.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008165.html * Paul Everitt shared his results with running Zope from a CD-ROM. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008105.html Until next week... _______________________________________________ Pamela Crosby Technical Writer mailto:pam@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANN: Zope.org beta release
by Amos Latteier 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Hello, Digital Creations is pleased to announce the pubic availability of the new Zope.org site. This site is currently in *beta*; it mostly works, but it not yet complete. Eventually it will replace the current Zope.org site. http://www.zope.org:18200/ * What's new about this site? The new site is focused on providing a framework for the Zope community to develop on-line Zope resources. Using Zope itself community members can experiment and create their own resources on Zope.org, much as Python hackers create their own content on the Python starship site. To participate, you can create a membership for yourself which provides you with an area to create objects, and the ability to personalize the site. The new Zope.org site is running Zope 2 and makes heavy use of the Portal Toolkit, the Catalog and ZClasses. * What's Membership all about? Membership allows you to create an account on Zope.org. Then you can build and manage your own Zope objects. You can upload your contributed software, and author your own documents on-line. If you can't install Zope locally this is a great way to try it out. If you are a Zope guru an account allows you to share you information efficiently with the Zope community. Everything you create can be woven into the fabric of the site through the magic of the catalog. For example, many pages are built from Catalog searches of member objects. Membership also allows you to find out about what's happened on the site since you last visited. For example you can search for all How-To objects that have changed since you were last at the site. * Is the site useful if you don't want to be a Member? Yes. The main feature of the new site for non-members is searchability and access to member content. Wondering about DTML syntax, just type 'getitem' into the search form and find the right pages of the DTML Guide, and any relevant user contributed How-Tos. * Why is the site considered 'beta'? Because Zope 2 itself is still in beta, and because we have not moved enough content to the new site. There may even be a bug or two left ;-) * What should I do if I find something broken, or have suggestions? Send them to info(a)digicool.com. Please realize that this site is not yet complete. We have lots of plans for it, and would like to hear your ideas too. Give the new site a whirl and have fun! -Amos P.S. In keeping with a great tradition, I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so I cannot guarantee that your problems and suggestions for the site will be acted upon immediately. Thanks for your understanding. -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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