Zope-Announce September 1999

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 29 Sep '99

29 Sep '99

Hi, This week saw Zope firing on all cylinders. Performance enhancements trickled into CVS, while Zopistas far and wide released cool new Zope stuff. * After some Apache problems last week, Zope.org seems to be running well. Zope.org now sports 50 user contributed How-Tos and 20 user contributed Zope products. Go team! http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To http://www.zope.org/Products * beehive released 'beehive Calendar' another cool Zope product. http://www.zope.de/software/beeCal/index_eng_html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000040.html * The prolific Evan Simpson released SiteAccess 0.0.1 and PythonMethod 0.1.2. The PythonMethod product allows editing Python methods through the web, and the SiteAccess product allows virtual hosting support. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001672.html * There was quite a bit of discussion on zope-dev about WYSIWYG tools and Zope. Dylan Jay kicked off the conversation and many others chimed in with opinions about how Zope should or could support WYSIWYG editing. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001624.html * Another hot topic on zope-dev was source control and how to get access to object versions from outside ZODB. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010902.html * Jim Fulton proposed a SiteObject Zope product to allow virtual hosting from one Zope process. Lots of folks expressed opinions. There seem to be several Zope products in development along these lines already, including Adam Feuer's VirtualHostFolder and Evan Simpson's SiteAccess product. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001603.html * Hugh Emberson's sqltest patch hit CVS. Here's yet another great community contribution! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010870.html * Paul Everitt announced that a Sybase level 3 database adapter is now under development. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010914.html * Chris Baron pointed out that Zope was mentioned in Infoworld as example of a Linux application server in Maggie Biggs's "Enterprise Toolbox" column. http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/biggs/990920mb.htm * The ZClasses Tutorial has been updated for Zope 2.0. This tutorial is the first chapter in the forthcoming Zope Developer's Guide. http://www.zope.org:8080/Documentation/Reference/ZClasses * Pavlos Christoforou announced ZSupervisor V0.1a a utility to control ZServer. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/011156.html Keep on Zopin'. -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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beehive releases new calendar product
by Mark Pratt 27 Sep '99

27 Sep '99

hello all, "The beehive Calendar is a calendar for the intranet. It can be used to make announcements and show the goals of the team members and the respective deadlines. Additionally, each team member can manage their daily planer." The bees at beehive hope you enjoy this freebee! you can get it here: http://www.zope.de/software/beeCal/index_eng_html 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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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Pam Crosby 22 Sep '99

22 Sep '99

Hello Everyone, This week in Zope Community the Zope.org community portal site experienced growing pains. We had to take it down and release Zope 2.0.1 to correct a security problem. 'Tis now available on http://www.zope.org/ new site http://www.zope.org:8080/ old site Loren Stafford submitted a "Breadcrumbs How-to" to the new Zope community site. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010467.html http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Breadcrumbs Brad Clements attended Microsoft Windows 2000 Developer Day 99 and posted some ideas and concepts that could be applicable to Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010558.html Jim Fulton announced changes checked into CVS that fixed our security problem. Zope 2.0.1 is the current release. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010585.html Duncan Booth passed on his method for Editing Zope documents with FTP using Epsilon. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010601.html Rik Hoekstra continued a discussion concerning wysiwyg front end for Zope. Several others added their thoughts to the discussion. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-September/000747.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010624.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010625.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010611.html Guido van Rossum reminded the list that papers are due September 30, 1999 for the next Python conference. The conference will be held in our backyard in Alexandra, VA. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010616.html http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01 Alexander Staubo passed on Middleware discussion on InfoWorld where Zope was mentioned. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010795.html Paul Everitt made several "Long Awaited Announcements" to the list. The first is ZEO Zope Enterprise Option is now available. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010796.html Second, commercial support is now available from Digital Creations. Details of the support are listed on the http://www.digicool.com site. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010799.html Third, Zope training in Colorado Springs October 18-20 and the possibility of a Zope track at the Python conference. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010745.html Finally, the last announcement Paul posted concerned Hadar Pedhazur's co-authoring a bulletin for IDC. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010800.html Rob Page updated the list about Digital Creations documentation effort. Numerous How-To's and guide upgrades are now available on the new Zope community site. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010730.html Hugh Emberson has added a patch to allow "different operator comparison" in SQL method. His information concerning <dtml-sqltest> is available at: http://www.zope.org/Members/hughe Until next week... Pamela Crosby Technical Writer mailto:pam@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Docs update
by Rob Page 20 Sep '99

20 Sep '99

Oops -- pulled the trigger too soon... Here's a more complete version.... Sorry for the double-tap. --------------------------------- Hello everyone: Just wanted to give everyone an update on our documentation effort. First, I am pleasantly flabbergasted at the number, variety and depth of the How-Tos contributed by the community! It's clear that the new Zope site (specifically, Member self-publishing) will go a long way toward helping the documentation effort. The past several weeks have certainly been busy. In the middle of everything else, we've been working on documentation. Specifically, the New and Improved DTML User Reference is online: http://www.zope.org/Documentation This is a part of the "core documentation overhaul" on which we're working. Unfortunately, we are a little behind on this effort (originally forecast for release 9/15/1999). We (obviously) didn't make that milestone. However, I have it from reliable sources that we should have the remaining (promised) documents published no later Friday (with some making earlier debuts). Remember that (for now at least :^), we've defined the core docs (and 'revised' projected availability) are: o Zope Administrator's Guide: 9/25 o Zope Content Manager's Guide: 9/22 o Zope Content Manager's Reference: TBD o DTML User Guide: TBD o DTML User Reference: Complete o ZSQL Guide: 9/23 o ZSQL Reference: TBD Where "Reference" documents are, well, references, and "Guide" documents have a more tutorial flavor. Additionally, we've also been writing a few of How-Tos: http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/ZSQLMethods-InsertingData http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/ZSQLMethods-CreatingTables http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/ExternalMethods http://www.zope.org/Members/Pam/DTMLScripting http://www.zope.org/Members/Pam/ChangePorts http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/DTMLMethodsandDocsHowTo http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/ZODB-How-To http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/ApacheRewriting http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/LetTagHow-To http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/WithTagHow-To http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/NameSpaceHow-To with more on the way! (e.g., How To Write a DA in 45,672 easy steps :^) Regards, --Rob -- Rob Page V: 540.371.6909 F: 703.995.0412 Digital Creations, Inc. http://www.digicool.com -- Publishers of the Zope Application Server @ http://www.zope.org

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Zope v2.0.1 released. PLEASE UPGRADE
by Christopher Petrilli 17 Sep '99

17 Sep '99

Gang, Zope 2.0.1 has been released and is now up on the new portal site (which as you'll see in a site note is back on port 80). I would strongly (very very strongly) recommend that anyone who is using 2.0.0 upgrade immediately, as this changes nothing except to fix the outstanding security hole discovered yesterday. This is critical if you are using local roles. If you are tracking CVS, then the change was committed last night, and you should be up to date with that. You can find the new release at: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.0.1/ Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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pamUserFolder verison 0.01
by Rod. 17 Sep '99

17 Sep '99

I have done a quick hack N kludge to the etcuserFolder product to add support for PAM authentication via the PyPam module. for those that would like it, I have made it available at http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/bwarff this first draft acts in the same way as etcUserFolder, with a flat text file that lists the user accounts which PAM will try and authenticate. Im hoping to have a more 'zopeified' version with web based account managment available soon. Rod. _________________________________________________ Rod Palmer: bwarff(a)connect.com.au +61 3 9251 3685 If we can't be free at least we can be cheap - FZ

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Reminder: Python Conference papers due soon!
by Guido van Rossum 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

The deadline for paper submissions for the next Python conference is nearing! Make sure that if you are considering submitting a paper, the program chair sees your paper by SEPTEMBER 30. Papers can be on any Python, JPython or Zope related subject. Papers will be reviewed and the best papers will be selected for presentation. You will hear about selection by October 22. For more information, see the official call for papers: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html ** We are planning a significant Zope presence at this conference! ** The conference will be held from January 24-27 in Alexandria, VA (just across the Potomac from DC). Make Python the first conference in the new millennium you visit! For more info, see the conference home page: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ Send all email questions about papers to: ipc8papers(a)cs.uchicago.edu --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) (And sorry for the broad spamming.)

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

Hello, The new Zope.org community portal site went live this week. http://www.zope.org/ Currently there are over 600 Members. The new site is focused on providing a framework for the Zope community to develop and share on-line resources. The new Zope.org site is running Zope 2 and makes heavy use of the Portal Toolkit, the Catalog and ZClasses. * Evan Simpson's Python Methods product which allows editing of Python methods through the web got a lot of attention this week. Version 0.1.1 was announced and lots of discussion ensued on the Zope and Zope-dev lists. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod * Dan York posted a note about having a Zope "Birds of a Feather" session at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009984.html * Andrew Kuchling asked about forming a Zope calendar SIG, and some interesting ideas were posted. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010016.html * Paul Everitt posted about a Bruce Perens interview in Upside that mentions Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010071.html http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=37d5a4590 * Chris McDonough announced a smbUserFolder product to allow Zope to authenticate users based on their Windows NT domain credentials. http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/smbUserFolder http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010116.html * Lots of discussion on various types of caching came up this week. Here are some highlights. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010346.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010372.html * Andy Dustman announced MySQLdb-0.1.0 which includes a patch for ZMySQLDA. http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010393.html * Ross Lazarus announced a LDAPAdapter product. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010416.html http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: new Zope.org goes live
by Amos Latteier 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

Digital Creations is pleased to announce the new Zope.org site. http://www.zope.org/ This site showcases Zope's advanced features, and provides a portal for Zope community members to share resources. * 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, the Zope How-To page is built from a search of all public Zope.org Member How-To's. 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 the New Item 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. * What's changed since the site went beta? Now the site has over 600 Members. Site is a lot more solid. We've implemented lots of small fixes and add a lot of content. * What should I do if I find something broken or have suggestions? Send them to webmaster(a)zope.org. We have lots of plans to improve the site further, and would like to hear your ideas too. Give the new site a whirl and have fun! -Amos P.S. The old Zope.org site is still available on port 8080. -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 09 Sep '99

09 Sep '99

Hi, Now that Zope 2.0 final is out, it's time to start trying to understand and put to use all the cool new stuff in Zope 2. The new Zope.org website, while still in beta, is starting to become a great source of information for Zope users. There are already 37 How-Tos on the site, all searchable. The new site will soon replace the existing Zope.org site. * Chris Petrilli updated the Oracle and ODBC Database Adapters. http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/DA/ZOracleDA http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/DA/ZODBCDA http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000031.html * Amos Latteier released Alpha 2 of XML Document http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/XMLDocument http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000028.html * Brian Lloyd posted an informative How-To on External Methods http://www.zope.org:18200/Documentation/How-To/ExternalMethods * Work continues on the new Zope.org site. Mike Pelletier has been hardening the cataloging and reviewing facilities and sprucing up the existing ZClasses. Amos Latteier posted a proposal for Topic objects to help with organizing and browsing content. Currently there are 537 Members of Zope.org! http://www.zope.org:18200 http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/Amos/TopicProposal * The 5th Berlin BBQ hosted by beehive happens Friday, September 17 at 16:00. Be there if you can make it to Berlin! http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/webman/berlinBBQ5 * The Portland Oregon Python Interest Group had it's first meeting on 9/6/1999. Amos Latteier gave a talk on Zope and XML. The slides are on-line. http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/Amos/XMLSlides/PORPIGgies * Evan Simpson released version 0.0.1 of his very cool Python Method Product. This product promises to allow safe Python programming through the web! http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/4am/pm0-0-1 * Andreas Kostyrka posted a fix for using Confera 1.3.1 with Zope 2.0 final. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009411.html * Zope t-shirts were discussed. It turns out that some already exist, and that the have a dangerous logo on the back. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009479.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009526.html * Janko Hauser posted about CIS (Community Information System) a very impressive looking Zope project. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009641.html http://www.bionode.com/cis/ * If you haven't already seen it, check out the ZDP's awesome Zope Quick Reference. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009899.html http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/ZQR/ See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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