August 2001 - Zope-Announce

The Zope News for August 31, 2001
by Chris McDonough 31 Aug '01

31 Aug '01

The Zope News for August 31, 2001 by Chris McDonough (chrism(a)zope.com) Also available via http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ZWN-2001-08-31 Welcome to the Zope News for August 31, 2001! The top stories this time around include: Zope 2.4.1 beta 1 released, a new ZEO beta is announced, Paul forks off a kid, versioning is hot, Tim Peters gets paid, Zope for Mac OS X, a big fat client, and a Zope-XPath marriage is proposed. And now for something completely different... Front Matter It would have been an excellent several weeks in the Zope community if it hadn't been for the SciFi Channel's re-running of the entire Farscape series on a daily basis (every night, 8pm... well, at least in the US). The actual viewing and discussion of the show has so sapped productivity lately that we're sending Ken Manheimer to forcibly dismantle the transmitter next week. Wish him luck. ;-) Seriously, however, a few people asked last week for me to link the blurb topics in this document's overview section to the respective items in the news text due to the sheer size of this thing. I would have done this, but, well... I didn't. ;-) Sorry! Zope Core Software Development and Releases Zope 2.4.1 beta 1, a minor bugfix release, was released on August 17. It's available from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.1b1 . Jeremy Hylton announces a new ZEO (Zope Enterprise Objects) beta release: "At long last, the fourth and final beta release of ZEO 1.0 is available at http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO. I expect to release 1.0 final next week." ZEO turns the Zope object system into a distributed architecture, allowing multiple processors, machines, and networks to act as one website. It also basically rules the universe, as far as I'm concerned. Software Development Proposals and Projects Michael Bernstein continues to gain momentum (and lots of comments) on his SecurityJihad proposal, which aims to tighten out-of-the-box Zope security for developers. See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/SecurityJihad . Dylan Jay proposes to allow Zope objects to be queried via XPath. See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ZDOMXPath . His PrototypeObjects proposal, though not particularly new, is also very interesting. http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/PrototypeObjects Shane Hathaway and Jim Fulton's Component Architecture project is turning out to be the genesis of a future "paradigm shift" for Zope development and has received a lot of discussion lately. See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/RecentChan…. BackTalk is a system based on Zope which allows users to comment on prestructured booklike content through the web. I put BackTalk out a while back on SourceForge, but I haven't really advertised it. I'll do so now. http://sourceforge.net/projects/backtalk/ . This is unspported software, is sparsely documented, and is available only through CVS at the moment. Comments appreciated. A BackTalk demo is available at http://serenade.digicool.com:8187/ZopeBook . Design credits go to Bruce Eckel, Bill Venners, and Kent Hoxsey. Developers wanted! Ken Manheimer produces a comprehensive set of requirements for Zope versioning. This appears to be a step in the direction of encoding a revision-specification scheme into URLs, which looks a little weird at first glance. http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/VersioningForContentManagement David Shaw makes his second beta binary release of Zope for the Mac OS X platform. It includes Python, his lickable GUI Zope control tool (http://homepage.mac.com/dshaw/ for screenshots), ZEO, and some other assorted goodies. Download it from http://homepage.mac.com/osx/ The Zope Fat Client project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zfc/) run mostly by our friends at NIP Ltd. is a project aimed at.. well, in their own words, "The Zope Fat Client project aims to explore the space of an interactive and potentially distributed Zope client to compliment Zope's current paradigms."! That's a mouthful. But it looks interesting! Security Notices No security notices since the last News issue. Documentation Development and Releases A CMF FAQ was started on the "dogbowl": http://cmf.zope.org/Members/tseaver/how_tos/faq_announce . I don't think it has been mentioned before in the Zope News, but the documentation folks at Zope Corporation continue to kick out new "Articles" which highlight hands-on use of some of Zope's core technologies. For more info, see http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Articles . The latest article from Michel Pelletier is about using Zope with Amaya, Dreamweaver, and other WYSIWYG HTML tools. Hernan Foffani updates ZopeSHELF for Zope 2.4! The Zope Shelf is a compilation of the Zope Book, the Deveveloper's Guide, the How-Tos, the Articles and an HTML and CSS Ref Guide in Microsoft HTMLHelp format. http://www.orgmf.com.ar/condor/zopestuff.html News Summaries No news summaries since the last News issue. Zope Corporation Goings-On No real news to tell on the "opening" of the Zope CVS. We're still waiting on a wet signature document. The project makes its home, however, at http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeCVSMigration/FrontPage. Paul Everitt, Zope Corporation principal, is the father of Charles Merlo Everitt, some-odd pounds, some-odd ounces born a few days ago. I'm as usual a little hazy on the details (there was no stork mentioned and I didn't a very good glimpse of him with all the other folks hovering over him and coochy-cooing), but the point is that Paul's a new father. Wish him well via paul(a)zope.com ! Zope Corporation has established a mailing list to specifically discuss issues which arise when integrating Zope and various relational datbases -- zope-db(a)zope.org. Any posting from "how do I?" to "but..." and the ever-favorite "help with ...!" is fair game. If you have an interest in subscribing, please visit http://lists.zope.org/ today, and sign up to the Zope-DB list. EuroZope Goings-On There were no updates on the EuroZope site at http://www.eurozope.org since the last News issue. Zope Sightings I had fun attending the Washington DC Zope Python Users' Group (the DC ZPUG) meeting. There are incriminating pictures. http://www.chrisabraham.com/article.php?sid=109&mode=flat&order=0 . I shepherded a Q&A session without any real topic, after which Andreas Jung (also an employee of Zope Corporation, but desperately pretending not to be) gave a talk about Python as middleware. Michael Roberts of Vivitek writes a piece for IBM developerWorks about how to extend Zope and Python in C. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pyzo.html . He appears to have really gotten traction since his last developerWorks article about Zope in April titled "Zope for the Perl/CGI programmer" ( http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-zope.html ). I missed this in last week's issue. Dennis Tenney from Linux Weekly News interviews Guido van Rossum and Jim Fulton. See http://lwn.net/2001/features/oreilly2001/GuidoJimInterview.php3 . Inside, Guido talks about how he likes Zope Corporation, and Jim talks about the component architecture and PHDs. Jon Udell mentions Zope in his byte article on paying forweb services. http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1113/byt20010822s0003/0827_udell.html Tim Peters explains how Zope Corporation calculates his pay rate. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&selm=mailman.998686118.5319.… Spoke Technologies' CrankSet is a commercial website-building tool based on Zope. http://www.spoke.net . Maik Roeder's Uzopia has an (older but fascinating) tidbit about how to use the underscore in Python to retrieve the last evaluated expression, as well as some other interesting stuff. You learn something new every day! http://uzopia.editthispage.com/ (scroll down about midway for the underscore hack explanation) Zope.org Meta Matter Due to Zope.org bandwidth and storage abuse by "warez" and MP3 distributors, we were forced to close a few accounts and remove an estimated 2 GB of files, and place some restrictions on File upload sizes. This means that Members can no longer upload files over 500 KB in size. Sorry! Blame society. Webalizer traffic statistics output for the systems that make up www.zope.org is available at http://ns1.zope.org:82/ . The Zope.org site itself has weathered some minor but obvious tweaks lately, mostly having to do with graphics replacements in the header and sidebars. Many thanks to Penney Simpson! Zope.org Almanac The Zope.org Almanac lists select new or updated content spotted on Zope.org since the last release of the Zope News. Selected News Items New York Zope Users Group http://www.zope.org/Members/vito/zope_meeting_08_29 New Or Updated How-Tos Compiling ZMySQLDA for Zope 2.4 on win32 with MSVC http://www.zope.org/Members/isalsberg/MySQLDA/Compiling_ZMySQLDA_%20win32 Building ZPatterns C extension http://www.zope.org/Members/Julian%20Munoz/InstallZPatterns Viewing folders and objects in VRML (3D) http://www.zope.org/Members/knudriis/vrml Selected New Or Updated Software Products Cache documents via mod_perl module for Apache http://www.zope.org/Members/xgwsbae/ZopeProxyCacheManager SiteAccess with enhanced VirtualHostMonster http://www.zope.org/Members/sfm/SiteAccessEnhanced Strip-o-Gram HTML Conversion Library http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/StripOGram Debugging aid for Zope users http://www.zope.org/Members/hathawsh/ZDebug Image Tag "Monkey Patch" http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/ImageTag_Hotfix Patch to make work Z SQL Methods with Transparent Folders http://www.zope.org/Members/fquin/SQL.py.patch BesserWisser (multilingual knowledge base) http://www.zope.org/Members/EIONET/BesserWisser ZEO ClientStorage http://www.zope.org/Members/natsukashi/Products/MountedStorage Render StructuredText to HTML with images http://www.zope.org/Members/Barabbas/stx_to_html Squishdot http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/Squishdot Photo and Photo Folder http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/Photo Photo http://www.zope.org/Members/Drew/Photo Informix Database Adaptor http://www.zope.org/Members/mark_rees/ZInformixDA Znolk SQL Wizard: A Wizard that creates forms for manipulating SQL data http://www.zope.org/Members/zwork/Znolk_SQL_Wizard Site Tracker Product http://www.zope.org/Members/peterbe/SiteTrackerProduct Zope(a)Zope.org Mail List Summary for August 18 - 31 People can't get enough of drinking from the firehose that is the Zope(a)Zope.org mail list! There've been roughly a bazillion messages posted since August 17, 2001 (the day of the last Zope News). Interesting messages and threads include those below. Giorgos V. reports curious TCP slowdowns with Zope on FreeBSD http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097880.html Carl Blesius tries to make life easier with INSTANCE_HOME, Dario helps http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097914.html Folks help Robb Allen get the Zope Tutorial going http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098049.html A discussion about dynamically generating text graphics in Zope http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098089.html Marc Fischer kicks off a discussion about autostarting Zope http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098149.html Bill Anderson makes a request about the naming of "hotfixes" http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098311.html Brian Lloyd rules from the bench about the hotfix issue. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098439.html The image "not-hotfix", ImageMagick, and PIL http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098367.html Kyler Laird kicks off a discussion about web-trojan-horse security http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098436.html ViNiL wants input on a Czech Zope portal http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098594.html Zope's hasRole API call syntax and history is discussed http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098684.html Michael Montagne wants to use vim to edit Zope code and finds out how http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/098710.html End Matter The opinions expressed in Zope News are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Zope Corporation, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition. If you or your company are doing something interesting with Zope, please submit a blurb to Zope Weekly News for possible inclusion by emailing Chris McDonough (mailto:chrism@zope.com ). For prior editions of the Zope News, see http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ What Is Zope? Zope is an open source web application server that can be used for managing website content, building intranets, and creating portals. For more information, see http://www.zope.org Zope is built using the Python programming language. For Python information, see http://www.python.org -- Chris McDonough Zope Corporation http://www.zope.org http://www.zope.com "Killing hundreds of birds with thousands of stones"

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ANNOUNCE: Photo and Photo Folder Released
by Ron Bickers 24 Aug '01

24 Aug '01

Hi all! Coincidentally, with the discussions on the image monkey patch and Photo products, I have released the first public version of the Photo and Photo Folder product. Although many ideas were taken from Andrew Lahser's Photo product (which is no longer maintained), this product is a complete rewrite designed to take its place. To see it in action, you can visit my not-at-all-fancy personal Web site, http://www.bickersfamily.org/Photos. For more details and to download, visit the Photo Product page: http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/Photo Enjoy! _______________________ Ron Bickers Logic Etc, Inc.

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ZEO 1.0b4 released
by Jeremy Hylton 24 Aug '01

24 Aug '01

At long last, the fourth and final beta release of ZEO 1.0 is available at http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO. I expect to release 1.0 final next week. Zope Enterprise Objects (ZEO) provides the ability for multiple processes to use a single Zope Object Database. ZEO turns the Zope object system into a distributed architecture, allowing multiple processors, machines, and networks to act as one website. The 1.0b4 release fixes all the major bugs reported since 1.0b3. The list of bug fixes is: - Improved robustness of ZEO under load. Many non-fatal socket errors are caught and handled now. Also fix NameError bug that could cause ZEO to fail on Windows. - Reduced the likelihood that a thread.error exception ("release unlocked lock") will be raised if a client disconnects from a storage unexpectedly. - Fixed a bug in undo handling that caused connections to be reset and prevented undos from propagating to all clients. - Fixed a bug that prevented a client from reconnecting to a server if the server restarted. - Fixed start.py so that it prints a message on the console when it fails in addition to using zLOG. - Fleshed out installation instructions and version dependencies. - Fixed bug in non-transactional undo that caused undo to fail and clients to restart. Jeremy

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Squishdot 1.3.0 Released!
by Chris Withers 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

Squishdot 1.3.0 is now available from: http://www.squishdot.org/Download. The following major changes were made: - Squishdot is now compatiable with Zope 2.4.0 and above but still works with Zope 2.3.x. - Many, many bugs were fixed and a lot of refactoring was done. - A fairly complete PyUnit test suite has been written. See http://squishdot.org/Documentation/Changes for full details. **This release requires Zope 2.3.2 or later!** If you run into problems, remember Squishdot has a mailing list at YahooGroups and a bug collector on SourceForge. cheers, Chris

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MailingLogger 1.0.1 Released!
by Chris Withers 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

This plugin module will mail important log messages from the Zope logging system to an address you specify. This release fixes a Python 1.5 incompatability. For more details, see http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/MailingLogger. cheers, Chris

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ImageTag_hotfix - auto thumbnail generation
by marc lindahl 21 Aug '01

21 Aug '01

ImageTag_Hotfix This hotfix makes it so that all Image (and derived) object use PIL to resize when you use the tag method with integer (non-%) height and/or width parameters. This way, stuff like the PhotoAlbum will behave (not give you a page full of full-image thumbnails). This version should be cache aware, it's recommended for big sites to associate these with a RAMcache to cut down on PIL usage- thought it's pretty fast. It also steals the RESPONSE.set_header code from Image so the thumbs are cached on the clients. Since it's a hotfix it's easy to try it and see if it's working for you, and remove it if not. It does not modify any of your images - it generates the thumbs on the fly and only stores them in a RAMcache if you have one set up. Check the README.txt for sage advice on getting PIL to work :) here: http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/ImageTag_Hotfix

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.4.1 beta 1 released
by Brian Lloyd 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

Hello all, Zope 2.4.1 beta 1 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.1b1/ Zope 2.4.1 contains several fixes including fixes to product auto-refresh, WebDAV locking and the ZCatalog. It also contains all hotfixes to date. 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/2.4.1b1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.1b1/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 Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com Zope Corporation www.zope.com

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ANN: Zope News for August 17 Released
by Chris McDonough 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

The Zope News for August 17, 2001 by Chris McDonough (chrism(a)zope.com) also available via http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ZWN-2001-08-17 Welcome to the Zope News for August 17, 2001! The top stories this time around include: Zope 2.4.0 released, Digital Creations pulls a name change, two security hotfixes released, documentation updates, ZDP alive?, EuroZope eats out, components are on the brain, Zope.org attacked by morons, more on opening up CVS, Zope 2.5 plan published, and the Zope "Weekly" News changes hands. And now for something completely different... What Is Zope? Zope is an open source web application server that can be used for managing website content, building intranets, and creating portals. For more information, see http://www.zope.org Zope is built using the Python programming language. For Python information, see http://www.python.org Front Matter A change of editorship has befallen the Zope News. Zope News readers will sadly no longer be treated to the deadpan editorial stylings of Ethan "Mindlace" Fremen, whose steady hand has guided the ZWN since what seems like the dawn of time. Ethan has retired to the Ukraine to live out the rest of his days as a feudal lord, and in doing so, has passed the editorial baton to me (Chris McDonough). The king is dead, long live the king! As a part of this editorship turnover, the Zope (ahem) "Weekly" News is changing its name to the Zope News in light of and in reverence to its not-so-weekly appearance. It will be produced biweekly from now on, and is meant to be released on the first and third Fridays of every month. If we miss the biweeklies.. well, at least nobody can make fun of the name! The change in editorship means that the content and format of the News is changing slightly to include "almanac" content from Zope.org as well as summations of interesting Zope maillist discussions. Hope you enjoy! Zope Core Development and Releases Zope 2.4.0 was released on July 23. You can download it from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0/ New Features include: - Zope 2.4 supports (and requires) Python 2.1 - New restricted execution architecture - WebDAV Level 2 locking support - New "WebDAV Access" permission - A new built-in 'Authenticated' role - Product refresh without restart during development - New "Drop-in indexes" support for ZCatalog Read more about the new release at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0/zope_240_released Zope 2.4.1, a minor bugfix release, is reportedly due in a matter of days. Zope Corp's Zope 2.5 development plan, which showcases new features slated to be added to the next major Zope release, is online. See http://dev.zope.org/Resources/zope_250_plan.html for the whole scoop. One of the important items slated for inclusion into Zope 2.5 is Zope Page Templates. ZPT is a technology which allows HTML designers and programmers to work together to create presentation and logic without stepping on each others' toes. Relatedly, a new release of Zope Page Templates that works with already-existing Zopes, ZPT 1.4, is out. See the Zope Page Templates Wiki for release and download details: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/FrontPage . Other Development Phabric, a project which has as its essential goal the porting of Zope to Jython (the Python language as implemented in Java) has been announced. The project is sponsored by a company named WebElite. See http://www.phabric.org for more information. Brian Lloyd has done a lot of work coming up with a reasonable proposal for better Zope web services. See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/WebServicesForZope Michael Bernstein is raising a ruckus on various lists with his SecurityJihad proposal See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/SecurityJihad . Jeffrey Shell proposes unification of the tests that ship with the Zope core. http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/CleanUpAndUnifyCoreUnitTests Toby Dickinson proposes a transactional email capability. http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/TransactionalEmail Security Notices Two security hotfixes have been released since the last Zope News. It's recommended you check them out and install them if necessary. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2001-07-25/security_alert http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2001-08-04/security_alert Documentation Development and Releases Although it was covered in the last Zope News, it bears repeating that the printed version of "The Zope Book" by Michel Pelletier and Amos Latteier became widely available in bookstores not too long ago. This is the dead-tree version of the content available from http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/ . If you buy it, maybe Michel will be able to afford a laptop on which he can run a better window manager than twm. ;-) The Zope Developer's Guide and Zope Book have been updated to match the features of Zope 2.4. See http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG and http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/ZopeBook24 . Thanks to Amos Latteier and Michel Pelletier. The Zope Documentation Project (http://zdp.zope.org) seems to have stalled almost entirely. The last update to any of its content appears to have been made in May! Egads. Alestay ontentcay entralcay! News Summaries Erik Enge's zope-dev maillist summary for July was relased. It's available at http://nittin.net/erik/summaries/2001-08-01 . Seb Bacon's CMF Week In Review #6 for the week ending July 27 is available from http://cmf.zope.org/news/weekly/20010727. Digital Creations Goings-On Digital Creations, Inc. (the producer of Zope) has changed it's name to "Zope Corporation". There is a new website at http://www.zope.com accordingly. The name change is intended to ensure that Zope (the application) and its primary financial backer are more closely associated with each other in the marketplace. See http://www.zope.com/News/PressReleases/DC2ZC for more info. A components architecture chat was had with Jim Fulton and Shane Hathaway from DC/ZC with the rest of the Zope community on August 3rd. A log of the chat is available at http://irclogs.espnow.com/zope-logs/show_file.php?logfile=Aug_03_2001.log. For the most part, Shane and Jim explained the content in the Zope Component Architecture wiki (see http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/FrontPage) which really essentially just turns out to be a set of best practices to use when developing Zope applications, as well as a set of enabling technologies. Ken Manheimer continues to plug away at opening up the CVS repository to contibutions external to and unmediated by Zope Corporation. A record of his travails is available at http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeCVSMigration/CurrentStatus. EuroZope Goings-On This happened a while back (a whole month ago!), but was neglected mention in any prior Zope News. The EuroZope crew (http://www.eurozope.org ) had a barbeque in Berlin. There are pictures. They are mostly incriminating, and they feature about four thousand shots of Noa Harvey, which is fine with me. See http://adequat.c2a.fr/presentation/ZopeBerlin for the pics. Also a great shot of Michel Pelletier somewhere in here. Zope News Sightings A slightly "trollish" article at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/14/2327248&mode=flat about web services in relation to open source software posted on LinuxToday and Slashdot generated lots of heat within those communities. Lots of (sane) people argued within the respective site talkback threads that "the answer is Zope." A bit of Linux Weekly News coverage at http://lwn.net/2001/features/oreilly2001/ of the latest O'Reilly Open Source conference deals with presentations given by Zope Corp folks. A bad picture of Tres Seaver and a good picture of Jim Fulton are contained within. Because I'm a Zopeaholic, I like to visit the Netcraft website (http://www.netcraft.net) every month to see how many folks are using Zope. Though their numbers don't take into account all the Zope sites behind Apache or other web or proxy servers, it's somewhat interesting all the same. See http://www.netcraft.com/survey/Reports/200107/byserver/Zope/index.html for Zope stats for July. Zope.org Meta Matter A small collection of morons is busy abusing Zope.org's "openness". This group uses Zope.org as a "warez" repository, creating throwaway accounts and storing large files in the various Member areas associated with these accounts. The large files are then downloaded many times by other morons. All of this activity takes up lots of disk space, bandwidth and other system resources. The Zope.org staff is busy fending off the onslaught. And they say open source software doesn't cost money! [;-)] Webalizer traffic statistics output for the systems that make up www.zope.org is available at http://ns1.zope.org:82/ Zope.org Almanac The Zope.org Almanac lists select new or updated content spotted on Zope.org since the last release of the Zope News. Selected News Items Zope Training in Berlin, Germany - Paris, and Washington D.C. http://www.zope.org/Members/beehive/berlindcparis.html ZWiki 0.9.4 released http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki/ZWiki-0.9.4-released Monthly DC Zope User Group Meeting http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisa/aug21zpug New Or Updated How-Tos Virtual Hosts via Apache (but nearly all content in Zope) http://www.zope.org/Members/mwr/VHosts_With_Zope_Default SSL Certificate Authentication http://www.zope.org/Members/zhivago/SSLCertAuth/How-To_SSLCertAuth How to compile/link DynPersist on win32 using MS VC 6.0 http://www.zope.org/Members/isalsberg/PTK/How-To_DynPersist Zope and SSL http://www.zope.org/Members/Ioan/ZopeSSL METAL for Beginners http://www.zope.org/Members/tone/METAL Medusa Status HowTo http://www.zope.org/Members/mvalente/medusastatus How to create boring CMF content based on the filesystem http://www.zope.org/Members/eenge/CMFBoringContent A very minimal Product http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_01 Migrate from ZPyGreSQL database adaptor to Psycopg PostgreSQL adaptor http://www.zope.org/Members/aho/oio_utils/ZPyGreSQL_to_ZPsycopg Selected New Or Updated Software Products Photo http://www.zope.org/Members/Drew/Photo Updated FScounter http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/FScounter PictureLink http://www.zope.org/Members/mavron/PictureLink Simple XML Searcher http://www.zope.org/Members/cabbie/SimpleXmlSearcher A RAM Cache Manager that ages objects http://www.zope.org/Members/xgwsbae/RamCacheManagerWithAge ReplaceSupport http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ReplaceSupport ZODB-CORBA Connection http://www.zope.org/Members/jheintz/ZODB_CORBA_Connection MySQL user folder http://www.zope.org/Members/vladap/mysqlUserFolder CallableFolder http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/CallableFolder SessionDataContainerBase http://www.zope.org/Members/shai/SessionDataContainerBase Oracle-based Session Data Container http://www.zope.org/Members/shai/SqlSDC Xron Scheduled Method Dispatcher http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Xron Binary release of Zope-2.4.0 for MOSX http://www.zope.org/Members/sspickle/Zope-2.4.0-MOSX-ppc Formulator http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator Portail Pour Tous (Portal For All) http://www.zope.org/Members/dgeorgieff/popoto CMF Complex Document http://www.zope.org/Members/snej/CMFComplexDocument Product View http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/ProductView FormsTool for CMF http://www.zope.org/Members/jack-e/CMFFormsTool Zope/Java-Based Telnet/SSH http://www.zope.org/Members/dshaw/ZJavaTelnetSSH HTMLDocument http://www.zope.org/Members/sf/HTMLDocument Zope ODBC Database Adapter http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/ZODBCDA Document Library http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary ZOracleDA http://www.zope.org/Members/zigg/ZOracleDA-zigg SOAP Methods as external methods http://www.zope.org/Members/xgwsbae/SOAPMethod Tamino-Zope http://www.zope.org/Members/pbolle/Tamino-Zope DCOracle2 http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2 Site Tracker Product http://www.zope.org/Members/peterbe/SiteTrackerProduct CMF-based Address Book http://www.zope.org/Members/natsukashi/Products/CMFUsrManOrg Caches documents via a mod_perl module for Apache http://www.zope.org/Members/xgwsbae/ZopeProxyCacheManager Zope(a)Zope.org Mail List Summary for August 1- 17 People can't get enough of drinking from the firehose that is the Zope(a)Zope.org mail list! There've been roughly 3000 messages posted since July 20, 2001 (the day of the last Zope News). Interesting messages and threads include those below. A thread about Java applets to be used as content editors http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096655.html Peter Bengtsson explains how to use _.getitem http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096658.html bak@kedai and Olivier Bleutgen praise mod_gzip in concert with Zope http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096661.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096664.html Steve Spicklemire and I come to the rescue for Gerd Zeif with _SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE and other things to do when you get locked out http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096670.html The answer to the above shocks and dismays Shai Berger http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096748.html J Cameron Cooper explains how to install CMF under Windows http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096687.html A long-lasting and lively discussion about using Zope for nonprofits http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096690.html Jcc also discusses the emergency user http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096695.html Timothy Wilson discourses on  vs <dtml-name> DTML syntax http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096714.html Andreas Jung explains how to grab content from an HTTP server http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096733.html David Lutz asks advice writing a comparison between Zope and Notes http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096760.html An intensely boring argument breaks out about Linux large file support http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096816.html I attempt to evade questions about Zope Version objects http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096869.html David Lambert asks questions about namespaces and receives answers http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096868.html Terry McKenna attempts to get ZSQL working with PostgreSQL http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096891.html Tommy Johnson get answers about publisher method marshalling http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096923.html Jcc answers Michael Montagne's question about security by recommending local roles http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096773.html Dieter Maurer amazingly spots a syntax error that Guido might have had trouble spotting [;-)] http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096957.html A thread about distinguishing Zope (the company) from Zope (the software and associated community) arises http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097025.html Jens Vagelpohl explains how to prevent TCP access to Zope http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097036.html I describe when and how to use the profiler http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097131.html Tino helps mixo out with groups/roles http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097208.html Tino helps out Artur Mozdzynski with cookies http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097212.html The orphan option default value (3) to dtml-in is crucified http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097212.html Tino helps Todd Loomis turn a set of checkboxes on a form into a list http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097405.html Dieter laments that more people don't use ZopeFind to search a Zope http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097426.html Steve Spicklemire helps Fritz Mesedilla find docs on Structured Text http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097463.html Jcc gets jiggy explaining how to connect MS Access and Zope http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097516.html Casey Duncan answers questions about creating a disk-based Zope product http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097585.html Jason Witt claims Zope is SLAB on Solaris, and obtains confirmatory testimonials http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097561.html End Matter The opinions expressed in Zope News are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Zope Corporation, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition. If you or your company are doing something interesting with Zope, please submit a blurb to Zope Weekly News for possible inclusion by emailing Chris McDonough (mailto:chrism@zope.com ). For prior editions of the Zope News, see http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ -- Chris McDonough Zope Corporation http://www.zope.org http://www.zope.com "Killing hundreds of birds with thousands of stones"

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Kaivo DTML Document Site Search Extension 0.2 Released
by Casey Duncan 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

This product is designed to make a site-wide content search catalog much easier to maintain. This product is a hotfix which extends DTML Documents to give them catalog-awareness and additional methods for use in ZCatalog indexes and metadata. This is "set and forget" software that takes care of things transparently once it is set up. In other words, no additional ongoing work or thought is required to keep your pages indexed and updated in your site search catalog. The new release contains the following enhancements: * More efficient catalog indexing * Greatly improved success rendering and indexing dynamic documents * The ability to specify a summary for a documents manually, if desired Download at: http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DTMLDocumentExt Enjoy. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan(a)kaivo.com `------------------>

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MailingLogger Released!
by Chris Withers 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

This plugin module will mail important log messages from the Zope logging system to an address you specify. For more details see http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/MailingLogger cheers, Chris PS: We've found this very useful, hope other people do to :-) PPS: Any problems, let us know...

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