March 2000 - Zope-Announce

[ANNOUNCEMENT] MySQLdb-0.1.3 released
by Andy Dustman 09 Mar '00

09 Mar '00

MySQLdb-0.1.3 has been released. You can find it at: http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman Amazingly, MySQLdb-0.1.2 is the most-clicked item in the Vaults of Parnassus, beating out more interesting things like Numerical Python, wxWindows, Gadfly, and Zope (I'm touched :): http://www.vex.net/parnassus/ What's changed: - Core dump on exit under certain conditions (probably only when using executeXXX() on dictionaries) seems to be fixed. - cursor.fetchXXXDict() methods added for backwards-compatibility with MySQLmodule (plus some people think it's cool to have). Zope smokers: You _probably_ don't need this upgrade, either; I don't think the bug ever affected the ZMySQLDA (it was in a function not used by ZMySQLDA), and the new fetchXXXDict() stuff seems unlikely to be used by it. Although, it's got me thinking about adding a describe_Zope() method that returns the items dictionary that gets built up; that might provide a modest improvement in speed. Let me know if you use this and think you need more speed; would help most on queries with many columns and few rows. But, I don't really want to maintain ZMySQLDA, as I don't really have time to be a hard-core Zope smoker; hopefully Mike P. or someone at DC will incorporate this as a separate release of ZMySQLDA (maybe v2?) Thanks to Elliot Lee who originally pointed out the core dump bug, and Scott Parish who helped me test the fix out. Author: Andy Dustman <adustman(a)comstar.net> License: Python-style <P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman/MySQLdb.html">MySQLdb 0.1.3</A> - interface to MySQL-3.22 (08-Mar-2000) -- andy dustman | programmer/analyst | comstar.net, inc. telephone: 770.485.6025 / 706.549.7689 | icq: 32922760 | pgp: 0xc72f3f1d "Therefore, sweet knights, if you may doubt your strength or courage, come no further, for death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!"

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 08 Mar '00

08 Mar '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * A Documentation Survey has been posted. This survey will help Digital Creations decide where to focus our efforts by allowing you to tell us what you think about Zope documentation. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/Documentation/DocSurvey * "efm" has made a set of RPM distributions of Zope 2.1.4. ftp://www.tummy.com/pub/tummy/RPMS/ * Maik R�der has posted an announcement regarding the Zope Documentation Project (ZDP). Among other things, the ZDP has a new site. It's a fantastic resource, and definitely worth checking out. http://www.zope.org/Members/roeder/zdp New Products * Software Product: NFG Navigation Product, submitted by "gyst" Another product which provides navigation widgets such as trees and maps. http://www.zope.org/Members/gyst/NFGnav * Software Product: ZopeEDIT, submitted by "jimbag" This product allows you to edit DTML object from your Zope database in your favorite text editor. Maybe. Written in Python, so it just might work on your machine. This is _not_ a Zope add-on, it runs on it's own. http://www.zope.org/Members/jimbag/ZopeEDIT Updates * Software Product: mod_pcgi2, submitted by "phd" The update to 1.0.2 adds new documentation. This is module allows Apache to communicate with long-running PCGI servers, such as Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2 * Software Product: load_site.py with additional features, submitted by "Itamar" This is an enhancement to the load_site.py utility that comes with Zope. It can be used to fill a Zope database with content from a filesystem. This release, version 1.2, fixes all known bugs, has new features from the newest version of the original load_site.py, and runs in 'standalone' mode, loading into a remote Zope server. http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/load_site/load_site1.2 * Software Product: FSSession, submitted by "gaaros" FSSession allows you to store persistent, per-visitor information on your filesystem. This update, to 0.3.0, fixes a number of bugs and properly supports Zope transactions. http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession * Software Product: KM|Net News, submitted by Kevin Dangoor KM|New News is a weblog (news site) product, not unlike (but not identical to) Squishdot. This update is version 1.1. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-March/000122.html http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/kmnn Zope.org items * How-To: Managing http/https URL Links, submitted by "rbickers" This How-To describes a clever method to generate links to objects which require different protocols (http or https). This allows you to use encryption only where needed, without using exclusively absolute links. http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/http_https_ulinks * How-To: How to view all inherited and acquired attributes and methods of an object, submitted by "dmost" This How-To is essentially an educational (or debugging) tool. Often it's difficult to figure out what methods an object has, or where those methods are coming from. This How-To provides an external method which lays it all out for you. http://www.zope.org/Members/dmost/ViewSelf * How-To: User Defined Roles and Proxies, submitted by "lvogel" "This HOWTO is to give a brief explanation of what a user defined role is, why you would want to set one up, and how to go about creating one. I also briefly touch setting up a proxy on Zope objects." http://www.zope.org/Members/lvogel/proxy * How-To: Change TinyTable values using DTML, submitted by "cguardia" "The TinyTable product is a good tool if you need simple table lookup functionality in your Zope apps. However, it's usefulness is limited by the fact that it doesn't support writing single values to the tables you create." * How-To: RESPONSE.write with ZServer 2.1.4, submitted by "htrd" "Streaming output does not work in Zope 2.1.4, when using ZServer to serve HTTP. This is fixed with the following two files..." http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/RESPONSE.write/howto -- Mike Pelletier.

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Zope Documentation Project (ZDP) Announcement
by Maik Roeder 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Dear Zopistas, The Zope Documentation Project is pleased to announce the availability of the new zdp.zope.org website, which aims to give the Zope community an additional place for sharing knowledge, and for working together on providing good Zope documentation. The new ZDP homepage already contains many useful resources for the Zope community, which for the most part complement the already existing types of documentation available on zope.org. We sincerely hope that Digital Creations will play an active role in the Zope Documentation Project and help merging the existing Zope documentation with the documentation provided via ZDP. To see what Digital Creation's Plans for Zope Documentation are, have a look at: http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/Documentation/Plan When we built the new ZDP site, great emphasis was placed on providing ways to easily get aware of what is new on the site and to quickly get an overview of what pieces of documentation need Maintainers, Writers, Commenters and Reviewers. Thereby contributors are directed to the documents and projects that need help. Everyone can contribute according to their interest and level of experience. We invite you to join the ZDP and to help building up a great knowledge base on Zope. This also includes helping to customize and extend the ZDP-Tools, which is the software with which the ZDP site was built and on which it runs. The ZDP-Tools are being developed on-site, and are completely written in DTML to allow for rapid through-the-web programming. Questions on the ZDP tools can either be directed to the ZDP mailing list or to me, as I am the ZDP-Tools maintainer (Maik Röder, roeder(a)berg.net) The most important sub-projects of the Zope Documentation Project are: 1. ZBook In this project, we are collaboratively writing a book about Zope. There are already many chapters, most of which are still drafts. We need feedback on these drafts, so maybe you can give some comments directly on the drafts, or discuss them on the ZDP mailing list or directly with the author. The ZBook project is maintained by Tom Deprez (tom.deprez(a)uz.kuleuven.ac.be) 2. ZFAQ This project tries to answer the frequently asked questions on Zope. The project is in need of additional contributors, so if you have a question on Zope, or an answer to share, then you are welcome to add it to the ZFAQ. If you want to help moving the old Zope FAQ to the new one, then just contact Kamon Ayeva (kamon.ayeva(a)bureauveritas.com) the maintainer of the ZFAQ project. 3. ZSnippets Snippets are short pieces of DTML or Python code which come with a description of their purpose and how they work. This project is maintained by Rik Hoekstra (rik.hoekstra(a)inghist.nl) who will get an automatic email notification when you add a Snippet, so you are invited to help flooding his inbox ;-) To become a ZDP member, write an email to the ZDP mailing list (zdp(a)zope.org) and we will create an account for you. For the time being, this will give you Manager rights on zdp.zope.org. Once we use a tool like the forthcoming PTK Login Manager for automatically adding new members, we will have to give more restricted access rights. Thanks go out to Digital Creations for sponsoring the ZDP server at Codeit Computing (http://www.codeit.com) a Zope Hosting Provider which is kindly giving the ZDP project commercial support for an Advanced Zope Hosting Server ! The ZDP site has not been tested under heavy load, so just in case you should experience down times, please report to the ZDP mailing list at zdp(a)zope.org, and come back later. If you should not be able to reach this site under the name zdp.zope.org, try using the IP address 209.185.210.24 in the meantime. So, you are invited to visit us at: http://zdp.zope.org Best Regards, Maik Röder

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KM|Net News 1.1
by Kevin Dangoor 03 Mar '00

03 Mar '00

KM|Net News is a Zope through-the-web Product that allows you to post news-style articles on your site. 1.1 is easier to install (because it creates its own Catalog and does not have any external methods) and now incorporates linking to external sites for more weblog-style publishing. (KMNN is still different from Squishdot in that there are no discussions attached to the articles and has different features for placement of the articles within the article listings). You can see KMNN 1.1 in action at http://www.byproducts.com KMNN 1.1 also includes a new "contrib" method for trusted people to contribute articles without review. KMNN 1.1 requires PythonMethods. You can get KMNN here: http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/kmnn If you're upgrading from an earlier KMNN, you may want to use the "Restore Defaults" tab to "Rebuild Catalog" and restore "incoming.html". The new incoming.html adds the fields for external articles. This will probably be the last major revision of KMNN before the PTK. Kevin

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Web page comparing Zope with Frontier
by jlim＠natsoft.com.my 03 Mar '00

03 Mar '00

I am compiling statistics on the growth of Zope and Frontier on the internet. Visit this page to view the phenomenal growth of Zope: It grew threefold in January 2000 for example. http://webfeet.editthispage.com/frontier --- "Stressed spelled backwards is desserts." jlim(a)natsoft.com.my NATSOFT MALAYSIA (60)3-706 1216 Visit my web site for Asian and local e-biz news http://webfeet.editthispage.com/

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * XML.com has published another Zope article by Amos Latteier, titled "Advanced XML Applications in Zope" http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/02/23/zope/index.html New Products * Software Product: PMPSurvey, by "sleeper" This is another survey product. It supports single and multiple answer questions. It may easily be embedded within other web pages, and reportedly sports a nice management interface. http://www.zope.org/Members/sleeper/PMPSurvey Updates * Software Product: FSSession, by "gaaros" This product can be used to maintain arbitrary per-visitor data (session data) without burdening your ZODB with excessive transactions. It does this by storing the sessions on your filesystem. This update, 0.2.3, uses cPickle, which makes it faster and more flexible. There are additional new features. http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession * Software Product: BannerFolder, by "lalo" This product randomly displays one of it's contained ads or DTML Methods. There are provisions for tracking click-thrus and for limiting the number of times an ad will display. The current version is 0.4. http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder * Software Product: ZRadius, by "Zen" This is a Radius authenticator. It can be used on it's own, or in Zope as a GenericUserFolder plug-in. This is a bug-fix release, bringing the version to 1.1. http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/ZRadius Zope.org items * Zope Documentation Plan, by Amos Latteier Amos Latteier is soliciting feedback on his Zope Documentation Plan. It describes the initiatives to improve the documentation situation which are underway at DC, their goals, and the assumptions they are based on. If you would like to offer feedback, Amos is available at <amos(a)digicool.com>. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/Documentation/Plan * Tip: Using PythonMethods on FreeBSD, by "als" This tip points out that a module required by PythonMethods (new) is not enabled by default by FreeBSD's python port. It describes the solution. http://www.zope.org/Members/als/tips/PythonMethod_FBSD * All Product Releases, by Martijn Pieters This page is designed to be used with wget, Go!Zilla, or some other web-sucking tool. It contains links to every Product Release on the Zope site. http://www.zope.org/Members/mj/AllProds * How-To: Wizards Made Easy, by "jspisak" This document explains a few techniques which make it easy to create simple multiple-page forms, like Windows' Wizards. http://www.zope.org/Members/jspisak/wizard_keys -- Mike Pelletier.

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