October 2001 - Zope-Announce

Zope 2.5.0 Alpha 1 Is Available
by Matthew T. Kromer 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

Zope 2.5.0 alpha 1 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0a1/ Zope 2.5.0 alpha 1 is a preview of things to come in Zope 2.5. While not feature complete (CoreSessionTracking is not in this release) this provides a good view of some of the change work which has taken place in the Zope trunk. Particular features of interest in 2.5 alpha 1 * Preview field in Image objects * Editable File objects under 64K for text files * New User management API * User folder password encryption * Path indexes on objects * Security machinery accelerations * Document template rendering accelerations * Page Templates, an alternate page markup * Distutils infrastructure support for addons 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/2.5.0a1/CHANGES.txt * http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0a1/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html

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Bizar Shop 1.1.3 - e-commerce product for Zope
by Richard Jones 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

Bizar Software is proud to release version 1.1.3 of its Bizar Shop product. What is Bizar Shop 1.1.3? Bizar Shop is an e-commerce product for Zope targetted at the SME market. Version 1.1.3 fixes some problems with encryption key upload and CSV import into the product catalogue. See the CHANGES file for more information: http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/resource_centre/CHANGES.txt Bizar Shop has already made quite an impact in the web development industry as the software incorporates outstanding features, usability, value for money and ease of hosting. Running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD platforms, Bizar Shop is developing a reputation as a very powerful, reliable and secure eCommerce program for small to medium sized business. Initial reports from companies using Bizar Shop have been overwhelmingly positive. Getting Bizar Shop 1.1.3 Bizar Shop is distributed in two forms across its four platforms. There is an 'out of the box' application version which includes all supporting software, and a 'Zope Product' version which may be plugged into an existing Zope server. The software downloaded from our web site is fully functional for the web developer, allowing complete shop design and implementation before any purchase. Downloads are available from: http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/products/download_form.html Check out the demos and live stores See Bizar Shop in action by visiting the demo and live stores via our web site: http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/resource_centre/store_showcase.html Meet the people Bizar Software will be demonstrating its software at the 'Business World Expo' in Sydney from 1-4 November, 2001 and will also be holding seminars in Melbourne and Sydney during late November, 2001. For more information on these sessions or the products, please refer to the Bizar Software web site at http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/ For more information please contact Mike Clucas Bizar Software Phone: (03) 9530 9182 mike(a)bizarsoftware.com.au http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/

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new ZSQLvMethod
by Arvid A. Patyupin 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

The virtual SQL method allows to put the SQL method into Z class and then create and use individual connections in each copy of the class, processing request to them by methods, located in Z class. http://www.zope.org/Members/arvid/ZSQLvMethod -- Arvid Patyupin Executive Technical mailto:arvid@summatech.ru www.sumoftech.com tel/fax:+7-421-2-315483 cellular:+7-902-403-2934

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EventFolder 1.32 released
by Danny William Adair 23 Oct '01

23 Oct '01

http://www.zope.org/Members/Barabbas/EventFolder --- EventFolder is now Zope 2.4.x compatible --- For more information see "Changes". New features have not (yet) been added. Danny

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New Book: Zope Web Application Construction Kit
by Mark Pratt 23 Oct '01

23 Oct '01

Hello all, A new Zope book is now available from Amazon and local bookstores in North America. This book is called: Zope Web Application Construction Kit Sams Publishing ISBN: 0672321335 576 pages This book is written for Zope developers. Here is an overview of the Table of Contents: 1 The Zope WACK 2 Installation and Configuration 3 Connecting Zope to External Relational Databases 4 Building a Prototype Part II Building a Portal and Adding Services 5 The Content Management Framework (CMF) 6 The MetaPublisher 7 Creating a Threaded Discussion Group 8 Creating Polls and Surveys Part III More Cool Web Applications 9 Automatically Building Sitemaps 10 Adding Search Capabilities 11 Creating Dynamic Graphs in Zope 12 Generating Dynamic PDFs URLs: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672321335/qid=1003828160/sr=1-1/ref… http://www.samspublishing.com/detail_sams.cfm?item=0672321335 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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Portable Holes for Zope Released
by Andrew Kenneth Milton 23 Oct '01

23 Oct '01

Portable Hole is a way to place a Hole in your ZODB from one point to another. Or to a place to stick objects from another part of your ZODB into. There are only two restrictions. When using point to point mode, the source must be Folderish. A Portable Hole must not be able acquire itself. Doing so will cause your universe to collapse. Well actually it checks for this, since Portable Holes have a strong sense of self preservation, and will not allow itself to be created in such a manner. You can read more about and download Portable Holes here; http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/PortableHoles/ -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm(a)theinternet.com.au|

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Bizar Shop 1.1 - e-commerce product for Zope
by Richard Jones 23 Oct '01

23 Oct '01

Bizar Sofware is proud to release version 1.1 of its Bizar Shop product. What is Bizar Shop 1.1? Bizar Shop is an e-commerce product targetted at the SME market. Version 1.1 introduces a swag of improvements in features and performance over the previous 1.0 release. Bizar Shop has already made quite an impact in the web development industry as the software incorporates outstanding features, usability, value for money and ease of hosting. Running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD platforms, Bizar Shop is developing a reputation as a very powerful, reliable and secure eCommerce program for small to medium sized business. Initial reports from companies using Bizar Shop have been overwhelmingly positive. Getting Bizar Shop 1.1 Bizar Shop is distributed in two forms across its four platforms. There is an 'out of the box' application version which includes all supporting software, and a 'Zope Product' version which may be plugged into an existing Zope server. The software downloaded from our web site is fully functional for the web developer, allowing complete shop design and implementation before any purchase. Downloads are available from: http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/products/download_form.html Check out the demos and live stores See Bizar Shop in action by visiting the demo and live stores via our web site: http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/resource_centre/store_showcase.html Meet the people Bizar Software will be demonstrating its software at the 'Business World Expo' in Sydney from 1-4 November, 2001 and will also be seminars in Melbourne and Sydney during late November, 2001. For more information on these sessions or the products, please refer to the Bizar Software web site at http://www.bizarsoftwre.com.au/ For more information please contact Mike Clucas Bizar Software Phone: (03) 9530 9182 mike(a)bizarsoftware.com.au http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/

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zwiki 0.9.6 released
by Simon Michael 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Lots of code cleanups, enhanced wiki-mail integration. Thanks in advance for all bug reports, patches & feedback. 0.9.6 2001-10-22 * zwikidotorg template updated to latest zwiki.org layout, example append_with_heading method added * mail subscribers now receive edits as well as appends * simple create method added to api * new page- & wiki-wide mail subscription mechanism (.../subscribeform) * wiki_page_url/wiki_base_url renamed to page_url/wiki_url; checkEditTimeStamp/editTimestamp renamed to checkEditConflict/timeStamp; old api kept for backwards compatibility * code cleanups, refactoring Best regards -Simon

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ANN: New Lockable Folder Product
by Butch Landingin 20 Oct '01

20 Oct '01

Hi all, Its been a while since I released any new zope products but this is something which I think Zopistas might find useful. This is the first release of Lockable Folder, a variant of the Folder that comes with the standard Zope distribution that allows you to lock access to its contents and help minimize URL namespace pollution. This is useful for hiding those Tiny Tables, dtml snippets (e.g. standard_html_header) and python scripts that are called from other objects and should not be exposed via their URLs. Its available at Lockable Folder product release page at http://www.zope.org/Members/butchland/LockableFolder As with any 0.1.0 release, the usual warnings apply, but I hope you all give it a try-out. Regards, Butch Landingin butchland(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

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Photo 1.2.0 Released
by Ron Bickers 20 Oct '01

20 Oct '01

Photo (and Photo Folder) 1.2.0 has been released. You can download it from Zope.org at http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/Photo/, or from Source Forge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zopephoto/. The most significant change from prior releases is the addition of WebDAV/FTP support. You can now transfer Photos to and from Zope using WebDAV and FTP. The documentation does not yet include this feature, so here's the short version: New image files uploaded to a Photo Folder will be created as a Photo object and will use the default settings and properties provided by the Photo Folder. With the timely release of Zope 2.4.2 (which fixes some WebDAV problems), uploading new Photos will now work with Dreamweaver's WebDAV. It will also work with prior versions of Zope if you use FTP. When you upload to an existing Photo via WebDAV/FTP, all displays are regenerated using the current settings. When you download a Photo, only the original image is transferred. There is also a change in the way Photo settings are stored which requires a simple upgrade process. See UPGRADE.txt for details. Please report problems, requests and praise at Source Forge or via Zope.org feedback. Thanks, and enjoy! _______________________ Ron Bickers Logic Etc, Inc.

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