March 2002 - Zope-Announce

TextIndexNG V 0.11 released
by Andreas Jung 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 0.10. TextIndexNG is a pluggable index for the ZCatalog that enhances the full text indexing capabilities of Zope by providing the following features: - support for document converters - stemmer support for 12 languages - similarity search (soundex, metaphone support) (not fully integrated) - NEAR search (including phrase search) - new query parser - extended stop word support - Thesauri (planned) - word normalization - unicode support - new 'test' tab for interactive testing Changes: - refactored internal forward and backward index into seperated module making the TextIndexNG module much more cleaner and cute - SimilaritySearch now working - rewrote main loop of vocabularies to create and store wordIds in C gaining a significant performance boost. - CVS moved to Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/textindexng) - License issues clearified Requirements: TextIndexNG currently runs only on the Zope trunk but not with Zope 2.5.X (some tweaks are required to install it under 2.5.X) (Limited) documentation is available from: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/wiki The sources of TextIndex are available from: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/ The installation is described in the Wiki (see above) -------------- Andreas Jung (andreas(a)andreas-jung.com) --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung Zope Corporation - - EMail: andreas(a)zope.com http://www.zope.com - - "Python Powered" http://www.python.org - - "Makers of Zope" http://www.zope.org - - "Life is too short to (re)write parsers" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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StarRaveSQL 0-0-5
by Ed Colmar 29 Mar '02

29 Mar '02

Here is version 05 of the new SQL based starrave. It's got new Admin tools, and the groundwork is set for XML connectivity to the SR host, which should be happening for the 06 release. Thanks to everyone that has contributed. Your input is invaluable! See it in action: www.trust-components.com The brand new SR homepage: www.starrave.org Download from zope.org: www.zope.org/Members/element/StarRave/ -ed-

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Local File System product broken in Zope 2.5.0
by Jonothan Farr 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

I just wanted to make several announcements about the Local File System product for Zope. One is that I am a bad, bad open source project manager. This email is the first thing I've done to help this project along in well over 2 years, despite its obvious usefulness to so many people. The problem is that it was never useful enough for me, so I've never actually used it for anything. The other is that I want to thank Zope Corporation for their continuing commitment to backward compatibility with products written for older version of Zope. I have steadily watched the decline of the LocalFS product over the years as I have failed to keep up with the changes needed to keep my product working with Zope. Usually the community has found workarounds on their own. I probably have 20 different copies of the same patch to get LocalFS working in Zope 2.4. Now I'm getting reports that LocalFS is broken in Zope 2.5. Surprise, surprise. I don't know if it's the same problem or not. If it is, you're in luck, because there are plenty of patches floating around out there. ;) Maybe there've been just a few changes to the Zope core and I'm blowing this out of proportion. I haven't been paying enough attention to know. I'm sure it's also annoying that the look and feel of the management screens for LocalFS is nothing at all like the rest of Zope anymore, though. I keep hoping that someone who actually uses the product might step up and take over organizing it. I set up a SourceForge project for it toward that purpose, in fact. I stopped just short of actually importing the code into their cvs repository. Maybe if some volunteers stepped forward to at least patch the thing up until it works then I might be more motivated. If there's anything I've learned from open source, it's that work tends to get done by the people who want it done the most. I have a hard time motivating myself to maintain a product I don't even use. This has just been a friendly little rant. Please, don't anyone take it too personally. I am quite frustrated with Zope for its instability as a platform, make no mistake about that. But before your hackles get all in a rise, I'll say I understand why it has to be that way and it's probably for the best. It's just frustrating, that's all. Asalaam Alaykum, --jfarr

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Vancouver Python and Zope User Group Meeting
by Andy McKay 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

The next meeting is at our new regular time of 7pm on the first Tuesday of the month. Format will be very similar to the last one, informal. A quick chat and some introductions. As requested the talk will be "Top 10 of Zope: the most popular products" by Andy McKay. After that we will probably head for a beer. Date: Tuesday, April 2nd Time: 7pm Location: ActiveState, 580 Granville, Vancouver, BC (http://www.activestate.com/Contact/) See you then. -- Andy McKay

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Building Administration Interfaces ebook now available
by Mark Pratt 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Hello all, Our 5th ebook "Building Administrative Interfaces" is now available in English. This ebook describes in detail how to develop a product in Python which provides an interface to manage users, roles, permissions, Zope-transactions, ZODB via the "Third View". Visit the beehive website for more information about this ebook and our other Zope education and publishing services. http://www.beehive.de Regards, from Mark and all the bees of beehive -------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ANNOUNCE: Zope training
by Brian Lloyd 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

*** ANNOUNCEMENT *** In response to significant demand, Zope Corporation has scheduled another presentation of our highly-rated Zope training for May 6th through May 9th, 2001 in Herndon, VA. Herndon, VA is is very close to Dulles International Airport. The course will cover the latest additions to Zope and the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF) including Zope Presentation Templates and Workflow. Jim Fulton (CTO, Zope Corporation) and Guido van Rossum (Director, PythonLabs) will speak at two luncheon sessions. Additional details about the training are available online at: http://www.zope.com/Services/Training If you have specific questions about training and to sign up for the course, please send email to training(a)zope.com or phone 540-361-1717.

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LocalPageCache0-0-1
by Ed Colmar 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Hey everyone! I just uploaded the code (in development) for the web agent project I have been working on. It is here: http://www.zope.org/Members/element/LocalPageCache Essentially what it does is loads web pages and images locally, and rewrites all the URIs to point back to itself. Can be used to route around sites that are blocked or restricted, or in future releases put in a public environment to provide anonymous browsing access. Similar in concept to: www.anonymizer.com It is stable, but still gets confused by some wierd relative URLS. It also needs some kind of session control so that files that are in use don't get erased. Big thanks to Thomas B. Passin for help and code for string.split Any help, suggestions, or critiques welcome! -ed

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Announce: CMF Web Agent v. 1.0
by Doug Hellmann 23 Mar '02

23 Mar '02

The CMF Web Agent is an application that allows you to monitor the entire web (or as much as is indexed by several popular search engines, 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. This new release of the CMF Web Agent provides a stable version which has been running in operation on two different sites for several months. New features include a plugin architecture for adding agent information sources. Two search engines (Google and AllTheWeb) are provided by default. New information sources can be built by the user for public (submissions for inclusion in the standard distribution are welcome) or private search sources. Check it out at http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/CMFWebAgent. Doug

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Announce: CMF News Feed
by Doug Hellmann 23 Mar '02

23 Mar '02

The CMF News Feed is an application that allows you to import news headlines from other sites directly into your site via RDF/RSS feeds. For example, combine headlines from Zope.org, Slashdot, The Washington Post, and other sites into one set of news headlines on your private web site. Alternatively, monitor industry news sites and display the headlines on your company intranet. Check it out at http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/CMFNewsFeed. Doug

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First release of QuotaFolder product
by Ivo van der Wijk 23 Mar '02

23 Mar '02

First Release of Quotafolder QuotaFolder is a folder-ish object that restricts the total number of objects, their total size and their individual maximum size. QuotaFolder takes subfolders (recursively) into account, so it should not be possible to escape the quota restrictions. QuotaFolder was developed as part of Amaze Internet Service's FreeZope.org Free Zope hosting service (http://www.freezope.org) More information, and the product itself can be found here: http://www.zope.org/Members/ivo/QuotaFolder -- 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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