Zope-Announce September 2000

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Web Techniques awards
by Gary E Graham 30 Sep '00

30 Sep '00

We have entered Zope in WebTechniques "Web Tools Awards" contest. We would appreciate your help by voting for Zope for your Open Source choice. Starting Monday, October 2nd, please visit http://www.webtechniques.com and place your vote for Zope. Ask your friends, families, others to vote as well. --Gary Gary Graham gary(a)digicool.com Digital Creations Fredericksburg, Virginia ---------------------------------------------------- Creators of Zope: The Open Source Application / Content Management Server www.zope.org www.digicool.com

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Use your cuecat barcode reader from pure DTML
by Steve Alexander 29 Sep '00

29 Sep '00

Just to show why DTML should not be used for serious programming, I'm pleased to present a translator from the raw output of a cuecat barcode-reader into an isbn. http://www.zope.org/Members/stevea/barcode_to_amazon It is written in pure DTML. The source is linked from the page. Simply ensure the keyboard focus is in the text box, then use your cuecat to swipe the barcode on a book. Seconds later, read all about that book on Amazon.com. Be sure to check that you aren't pre-processing your cue-cat's output with a linux kernel module, or any such thing. -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net

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Daily CVS Tarballs
by Monty Taylor 26 Sep '00

26 Sep '00

http://mirror.information-innovation.com/zope-cvs/ I've started making daily checkouts and exports of major Zope modules from CVS and tarring them up. For those of you who (like me) are behind a firewall and can't do CVS checkouts but want to keep up to date, please feel free to use this. I would imagine that the standard caveat about these not being tested in any way applies. These get tarred up in a CRON job. So please, caveat emptor. I added the modules I follow. If you have requests for any other modules, please let me know.

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Source documentation for Zope 2.2.2 available
by Doug Hellmann 24 Sep '00

24 Sep '00

The HappyDoc-generated source documentation for Zope 2.2.2 is available at: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Developer/ZopeSrcDocs Doug

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Security Release: Membership 0.7.6
by Bill Anderson 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

This is a security fix release. Membership 0.7.5 had an annoyingly nasty security bug. This bug has been fixed, and is the only change in this release. It is *strongly* recommended you NOT use anything prior to this release. To Upgrade from 0.7.5: o Untar the release file in your ZOPE_HOME. o Restart Zope The changes are in PersistentUserSource.py, and are minor, so the upgrade should go smoothly. This is in relation to 0.7.5. -- Bill Anderson (ARC) Unix/Linux System Administrator LTDS Team Tuesday, September 19, 2000 Random Quote: This tag is invisible to anyone with a higher IQ than me.

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September 19th Zope Weekly News
by mindlace 20 Sep '00

20 Sep '00

In this week's ZWN, make Zope your career, take Zope classes, read about security, get Zope 2.2.2, all while tracking HiperDOM, WikiNG, Sessions, and the continued evolution of Zope.org. The opinions expressed in Zope Weekly news are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition. If you or your company are doing something cool with zope, "submit it to the Zope Weekly News", mailto:zope-web@zope.org for possible inclusion. And Now For Something Completely Different: --- Get Paid for Doing Zope In the very near future, a Fortune 100 media company will launch a new web initiative for which Zope is the content management platform. Digital Creations has been working closely with the company on the architecture for the project. With the initial success, the company wants to augment its internal Zope technical staffing. The job opening is for someone with strong Zope/Python skills, preferably on Linux. Background in web design, information architectures, and project management are beneficial. The vision for this project is quite exciting indeed. If any of you are interested in a prime-time Zope position in New York City, "contact Paul", mailto:paul@digicool.com and he'll pass along your contact information. More Training & Education Coming Kaivo, in partnership with Digital Creations, is expanding and enhancing the training courses availiable for Zope. Get all the jucy details from "the press release", http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CoCBKWbKbytaZodK --- Documentation Chris McDonough has been hard at work on a security chapter for the product developer's guide. It will give a comprehensive overview of Zope's security features and details the ins and outs of making *your* product secure: Currently, it gives and overview and covers Python Products, with ZClass Products in the works. Take "a preview look", http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/PDG/6-1-Security.stx and send him feedback. --- Zope Status -- by Brian Lloyd Summary Zope 2.2.2 released, planning for Zope 2.3 Last Week Last week I worked on weaving in feedback to the draft of the first deliverable for the "new security assertions" project, the Zope Security for Developers guide. The window of opportunity for having your say in this is closing soon, so be sure to "check out the draft", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/DeclarativeSecurity/ZopeSecurity… Several spirited discussion have been going on (on both the zope-dev list and dev.zope.org) regarding the HiperDOM proposal and the WikiNG proposal. Both of these are still very much in the "big picture" phase of figuring out what they mean. The fleshing out of 'core' session tracking (relating private namespaces to anonymous visitors) is coming along nicely. Fishbowl suggestions played a key role in design. A complete set of use cases has been drawn up, and a primordial implementation is in the works. For more information see the "Core Session Tracking fishbowl project", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/CoreSessionTracking. I also started on the task list for the next "planned feature release" of Zope. We need to figure out how to best expose the work for a particular release on dev.zope.org (a project?, a dedicated "next release" area?) This week This week we'll get the information for the next Zope feature release up on dev.zope.org. We've also made a Zope 2.2.2 release. This is a minor update, most consisting of fixes to support ZEO deployment. I also hope to (finally!) finalize the Zope Security for Developers document (implementing it is currently on the 2.3 list). --- Zope Web -- by Ethan Fremen Community Development of Zope.org Maik Roeder, Rik Hoekstra, and Tom Deprez (all of ZDP fame) have volunteered to help redevelop the Documentation section of Zope.org! Tim Cook deserves kudos for his work on categorizing all the How-To's for topic oriented access. ZEO Smells Good Only a few short weeks in the intense heat of the Zope.org oven, coupled with the tender ministrations of Jim Fulton, and ZEO is getting pleasantly baked. Scaling Zope.org We're in the process of preparing some boxes to give Zope.org a replicated home, where ZEO is in full play and multiple Zope clients answer requests. The boxen and connection are being provided by VA Linux Systems, with load balancing and failover design being provided by baymountain. -EOT-

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.2.2 released...
by Brian Lloyd 18 Sep '00

18 Sep '00

Hello all, Zope 2.2.2 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.2/ This is a relatively minor bug-fix release. It includes fixes for a number of issues uncovered recently during some fairly heavy ZEO testing - ZEO users are highly encouraged to upgrade. It also contains fixes for ZClass factory ownership and some other miscellaneous bugs. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.2/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.2/HISTORY.txt Note that we have also posted "diff" updates as .tgz files that will let you easily upgrade an existing 2.2.x site. These updates are available for those currently using the 2.2.x source release or the 2.2.x binary releases for either solaris or linux. To apply a differential update to your site: - download the appropriate .tgz file from zope.org - shutdown your Zope process - copy the .tgz to your Zope directory and extract it - run w_pcgi or wo_pcgi *if you are not using a binary release* - restart your process Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope will be present at the SYSTEMS 2000 in Munich
by Maik Roeder 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Hi Zopistas ! Zope is going to be present with its own booth at the SYSTEMS IT fair in Munich from 6.-10. November 2000. After the CeBIT in Hannover it is the 2nd-largest IT fair in Germany with over 130.000 visitors last year. There will be a large focus on the Open Source movement with a dedicated forum called LinuxPark, which was a huge success in 1999. See the homepage at http://www.systems.de for general information and http://www.linux-events.de/, a Zope site, for information on LinuxPark. We will have a booth supplied by Linux New Media who is organizing LinuxPark. The booth is supported by Iuveno and Beehive and features two separate work-places with internet access where we can have two computers and two posters. The Zope booth is going to be some steps away from the shared Iuveno and Beehive booth, and the Linux-Cafe is just ahead. Around the corner is going to be the Gimp and Debian folks, and the Samba people are next to us. We will have the chance to present Zope related projects, so we are looking for people who could prepare some talks. We need many Zopistas who would like to help with the preparation of the fair and who can man the Zope booth on the four days of the event. We also need two computers and preferably flat screens for the booth. Please contact Joachim Werner at joe(a)iuveno.de if want to support the EuroZope SYSTEMS team with hardware or help attending the booth. If you plan to come to the SYSTEMS, it would be nice if you could also send an email to the EuroZope mailing list at eurozope(a)comlounge.net. All those who attend the booth will get a free ticket and we have sleeping space for 3-4 people in the Munich area, because hotels would be rather expensive. If you prefer to stay in a hotel, it could pay off to stay in nearby Ingolstadt and come with the Iuveno guys to Munich each day. For always up-to-date information on the SYSTEMS event, frequently check the project homepage at: - http://zdp.zope.org/projects/eurozope/events/systems The Zope booth at the SYSTEMS is the second event organized by the EuroZope initiative: - http://zdp.zope.org/projects/eurozope The EuroZope project was founded at the LinuxTag 2000 in Stuttgart: - http://zdp.zope.org/projects/eurozope/events/linuxtag2000 We have just recently held the Zope Meeting with Paul Everitt in Paris: - http://zdp.zope.org/projects/eurozope/events/pariszopemeeting Many more events are planned for the future like the big ZopeCon at the Linux Expo January 23-24 in Amsterdam. - http://zdp.zope.org/projects/eurozope/events/linuxexpo2001 (soon!) Best regards, Maik Röder -- Uzopia - Digging la vida Zopa - http://uzopia.editthispage.com

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ANN: HappyDoc 0.7.1
by Doug Hellmann 10 Sep '00

10 Sep '00

Announcing HappyDoc, a Python documentation extraction tool. HappyDoc is a tool for extracting documentation from Python source code. It differs from other such applications by the fact that it uses the parse tree for a module to derive the information used in its output, rather that importing the module directly. This allows the user to generate documentation for modules which need special context to be imported. Version 0.7.1 Version 0.7.1 contains several fixes for reported bugs. Special thanks to Jesper Hertel and many others for reporting them so quickly and clearly. With this update, I have also updated the Zope source documentation files on Zope.org at http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/ZopeSrcDocs. Download Download the latest version of HappyDoc from the home page on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/happydoc Doc-string Format How does an author write documentation so that it will be marked up and look fancy? This is a perennial question for Python, and seems to have introduced a roadblock into the development of more robust and useful documentation tools. By separating the formatter classes from the docset classes, HappyDoc allows a user to create their own formatter to interpret comments in any way they see fit. The default for the HTMLTableFormatter (the default formatter for HappyDoc) is to treat __doc__ strings as StructuredText. Don't like StructuredText? Write your own formatter that does something different and drop it into place. Documentation not in Doc-strings It is not always desirable to put all documentation in __doc__ strings. Sometime, notably when working with Zope, special meaning is attached to the presence of __doc__ strings. For this reason, and to support existing code which might not have __doc__ strings, HappyDoc will find and extract documentation in Python comments. Comment documentation can contain all of the same formatting as __doc__ strings. The preceding comment marker will be stripped off and the lines will be assembled and treated as a block of StructuredText. To use this feature, it is important to place the comments **before** the named object which they describe. In this example: # # Class documentation goes here # class ClassWithNoDocStrings: "Using __doc__ strings overrides comment documentation." def method1(self, params): "This method uses a __doc__ string." pass # # Method2 does not use a __doc__ string. # def method2(self): pass The output would include the __doc__ strings for the class and for method1. It would also make it appear that method2 had a __doc__ string with the contents "Method2 does not use a __doc__ string."

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ActiveImages V4 Released!
by Kevin Howe 06 Sep '00

06 Sep '00

Version 4 is a complete re-write as a Python Product. Although I have been using it successfully for some time now, I'm keeping it marked as "Development" for the moment until I'm satisfied that it has been tested enough. V4 solves compatibility problems with ZOPE 2.2 and has redefined and added specical features such as Triggers (Multiple JavaScript Rollovers), and Sticky Images/Sticky Groups (Make a group of images act like a set of radio buttons) as well as more advanced DTML calls. I encourage anyone using previous versions of ActiveImage to upgrade to Version 4. I'm looking for feedback so please email me with any comments. khowe(a)performance-net.com http://www.zope.org/Members/admin/ActiveImage/

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Zope-Announce September 2000