January 2002 - Zope-Announce

DC Zope Python User Group Meeting this Wednesday.
by Chris Abraham 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

ZPugDC Meeting on 16 Jan 2001 I just wanted to remind you all that in about the next ZPugDC meeting this coming Wednesday in Reston, VA. The next Zope Python User Group meeting in Washington, DC, is on Wednesday, 16 January 2002 from 7pm. There are rumors that there will be libations and snacks and its not to be missed! The fabulous Joya Subudhi has organised it so its bound to be something to remember. Foretec is organising Python 10 this and every year! Its really the only US Python conference and we really want to support them for this. For this reason -- and many others -- we are honoring Python in the month of January and the next ZPug is in honour of Python 10! Ring in the new year with a big dose of ZODB with Andrew Kuchling as he crows about his amazing use of the Zope Object DataBase as he and his company, MEMS Exchange, uses it in their Python development. Also, to brag, ZPug got a mention on the OnLamp so check that out. Finally, yes the Mailing list is temporarily down, we have moved to iMeme and they rock -- throw money at them, they are the coolest and have generously offered to host Zpug for free for 9,999 months at least. Cheers and Thanks for Everything to Everyone and Happy Holidays and Winter Solstice and whatnot if I don't say it before then: Happy New Years! Chris Abraham ===== -- chris abraham <chrisabraham(a)yahoo.com> +1 202-452-7442 tel po box 15163 washington, dc 20003-0163 +1 703-995-0409 fax __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

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ZDataQueryKit - Query Databases Without Programming
by Adrian Hungate 13 Jan '02

13 Jan '02

ZDataQueryKit - Query Databases Without Programming Aims: The aim of this product is to allow people who are not familiar with SQL (Or at least are not experts) to produce complex SQL queries from any combination of Zope data sources. Objects: **ZVisualQuery** -- Visually design a ZSQLMethod ZSQLMethods are powerful Zope tools for querying databases that use the popular 'SQL' language. This is a complex language which can take many years to learn properly. ZVisualQuery does away with all that! As long as you know what tables you want to extract data from, and how the tables relate to each other (This is often documented with the database) you can extract data without the effort of writing and debugging potentially complex SQL statements. **ZDataCombiner** -- Visually combine data from _different sources_ *"The sales figures are in MySQL, the exchange rates are in PostgreSQL, and the personnel data is in Oracle, how can I write a single query that will conbine all this data?"* - The answer is, of course, you can't! BUT now you can do the next best thing! With ZDataCombiner you can take data from _any_ group of Zope datasources and combine them into a single datasource for other objects to query. As long as your datasources have, or can be given, common (Often called 'key') fields, you can combine the data from any set of Zope datasources and use it as though it was a normal ZSQLMethod (Or ZVisualQuery)! **ZReportTool** -- Visually create simple and complex tabular reports Once you have your data, you need to display it. This is where you need a DTMLMethod, and you start getting ready to write complex **<dtml-in ...>** commands, right? **WRONG**! Now with ZReportTool, you can simply select the datasource you want to use, select which columns to display, you can group by columns, and even sum numeric columns. Hit save and you have a report - Top to bottom, with no programming! And a special treat for people with XMLKit installed: **ZVisualODBCClient** -- Visually design an XMLODBCClient query The latest version of my XMLKit product http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/XMLKit provides the ability to query an ODBC Socket Server from Zope. This, finally, allows Zope running on any platform to query Microsoft ODBC Databases on a Windows PC. ZVisualODBCClient does for XMLODBCClient what ZVisualQuery does for ZSQLMethod - It allows query designing without SQL programming. The output from the method is still compatible with that produced by a ZSQLMethod, and the objects that call the query can't even tell the difference! If this sounds interesting, you can find it at http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/ZDataQueryKit NOTE: This is a first release, although the code has been tested, and is marked as stable, it might contain bugs. Enjoy Adrian... -- Adrian Hungate All views expressed in this email are those of the whole world, however some people don't realise this yet.

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Zope Online Documentation Tool
by Stephan Richter 12 Jan '02

12 Jan '02

Hello everyone, I just released the first public version of the Zope Documentation Tool. ZOD was fully sponsored by bluedynamcis.com GmbH. After some discussion on the Zope mailing list we decided to release the code, so that more people could use it. URL: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZOnlineDocu BTW, a demo having the entire Zope tree as documentation can also be found on this site. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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ANN: CMF Web Agent 0.1
by Doug Hellmann 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

CMF Web Agent The CMF Web Agent is an application that allows you to monitor the entire web (or as much as is indexed by Google, anyway) for new pages related to topics of interest. For example, monitor the web for any mention of your new startup company, and display the results as a news list on your company intranet. Alternatively, monitor the net for your own name or email address and keep the results in your private content management portal. For more details, check it out at: http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/CMFWebAgent and http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/CMFWebAgent/README Enjoy responsibly, Doug

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New SmartSection Release available!
by Stephan Richter 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Hello everyone, I am proud to announce that a new version of SmartSections is availble. In the last months SmartSections matured a lot and is now by multiples more stable. You can now safely use the product in production! There is also a total new look and feel put on top of it, so that the user can immediately see how powerful the product is. There is also now a field available that allows one to enter HTML safely. Much thanks goeas also to Dirk Datzert and Joachim Werner, who contributes major changes and bug reports. SmartSection Home Page: http://demo.iuveno-net.de Zope SmartSection: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/SmartSections Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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ZOQL Method 0.4.0 development preview
by Stephan Richter 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Hello everyone, it has been a while, since the ZOQL team has posted any progress. This was due to the fact that Thomas Foerster rewrote the entire ZOQL Grammar, Lexer and Semantics! Everything is now much more object- and component-oriented and therefore easier to develop with. The kwParsing Module (that generates the language and provides the generic parser) has been adapted to Python 2.1 by moving all regex to re. There are also many unittests that help with the quality assurance of the product. New Features: The language rules itself changed slightly, in order to remove some sneaky reduce and shift errors in the parser. We also changed some language rules, if we found that the old way was inconsistent. But I think the biggest new feature is the ability to add python-based products (if your Zope user has the required permissions on the FS). Here ZOQLMethod makes use of the slightly refactored MakeProduct product which was originally developed by Erik Enge, Thingamy. Since Erik does not work with Zope anymore, I took over the project, and will develop it further in combination with ZOQLMethod. Another small new feature is the ability to add sequences to your Zope tree, but it does not do much yet. What is ZOQL? ZOQL is a query language similar to SQL for the ZODB. Since other Object Query Language standards were not suitable, we developed ZOQL from scratch, having only Zope in mind. ZOQL Methods allow you to quickly query and manipulate objects in the ZODB. You do not require the ZCatalog or worry about all the namespace issues. There are no dependencies on ZOQLMethod and it should be platform independent. ZOQLMethod Homepage: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZOQLMethod Zope Page: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/ZOQLMethod Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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FreeZope, Free Non-Commercial Zope Hosting
by Ivo van der Wijk 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Amaze Internet Services is happy to announce: FreeZope, your personal Zope Environment! At FreeZope, you can look what Zope has to offer, create a highly dynamic personal page, or just play around and see what Zope can do for you. Zope is a highly expandable, python based, application server with a very advanced through-the-web management interface, and supports many common protocols such as webdav, ftp, xml, sql, and many more. At FreeZope we offer you a zope folder with userfolder under your own freezope.org subdomain for non-commercial use, and a number of products installed. These products include Squishdot, a Slashdot-alike community board, the Photo Folder, for all your digital images, ZUBB which adds a forum to your site, Zope Page Templates, Meerkat, a poll, a counter and many more. Please check http://www.freezope.org/information for the full list of products available. The list of installed products is updated continuously, and we are open for new product suggestions. FreeZope also hosts a discussion mailinglist, where you can ask for help and discuss away with other developers, a public forum for discussion and even an IRC server for online chatting with fellow Zopistas! The Discussion archives can be found at: http://lists.amaze.nl/pipermail/discussion/ The Forum is located at: http://www.freezope.org/forum/ (Or click 'Forum' on the main page.) The IRC server can be reached at: irc.freezope.org:6667 Note that the IRC server is a standalone server and not connected to any IRC network. Head over to http://www.freezope.org/ now and register yourself today! The FreeZope team! -- Drs. I.R. van der Wijk -=- Brouwersgracht 132 Amaze Internet Services V.O.F. 1013 HA Amsterdam, NL -=- Tel: +31-20-4688336 Linux/Web/Zope/SQL/MMBase Fax: +31-20-4688337 Network Solutions Web: http://www.amaze.nl/ Consultancy Email: ivo(a)amaze.nl -=-

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Zope Support in Quanta Gold
by Eron Lloyd 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

The Kompany has added to its latest version of Quanta Gold the beginnings of native support for Zope and Python Web application development. This includes the ability to access a running Zope server through an integrated FTP client and directly edit DTML objects and Python scripts. The first phase provides customizable syntax-highlighting for DTML and Python, as well quick access to the "_" namespace functions and the math, string, and random modules. With each release, more integration will be available, for things such as Zope Page Templates and XML. Quanta Gold is a cross-platform Web application environment available for Linux (x86 & PowerPC), Windows (NT/2000/XP, etc.) and MacOS X. It's similar to Allaire Homesite with tight support for open source Web platforms such as Zope, PHP, Python, and Perl. It provides extensive code-editing facilities, advanced CSS support, project management capabilities, CVS integration, markup validation thanks to TIDY integration, instant rendering previews, fast DOM parsing and node-based editing of markup documents, and extensive reference documentation. Suggestions and feedback are welcomed from the Zope community. More information can be found at http://www.thekompany.com/products/quanta/

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DISCUSS: Open house and Zope3 sprint after IPC10
by Paul Everitt 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Howdy. We're planning a small open house here in Fredericksburg the day after the Python conference, on Friday Feb 8. We're also considering a Zope3 extreme programming "sprint" around the same time (Thu/Fri, Fri/Sat, or Thu/Fri/Sat). A number of you have already indicated interest in both of these events. We'd love to see as many of you as we could, and also to schedule a Zope3 development activity while so many of you will be around. If you are interested, please email me. Later this week I'll put out something more formal. --Paul

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Roundup 0.4.0b1 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Roundup 0.4.0b1 - an issue tracking system If you are upgrading please read MIGRATION.txt. Roundup requires python 2.1.1 for correct operation. Support for dumbdbm requires python 2.1.2 or 2.2. Big stuff in this release: - Use of transactions to prevent partial data commits - Zope Product front-end - Nicer, more consistent change message generation - Several bug fixes - Much, much more: see the CHANGES file for details. Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.0+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates and three database back-ends.

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