For all those interested in Coreblog, there's now a new resource:
coreblog-en, an English-language mailing list.
http://munin.nbi.dk/pipermail/coreblog-en/
Until now, the main discussion forum about Coreblog was the coreblog
mailing-list in Japanese.
http://mail.webcore.co.jp/pipermail/coreblog/
This excellent blog machine for Zope is a Japanese invention, created by
Atsushi Shibata at Webcore ( http://www.webcore.co.jp ). Atsushi has joined
the new Coreblog-en list, so corebloggers will have nice support.
Download Coreblog from http://www.coreblog.org
It´s a nice tool, really!
Luistxp
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that we published the 25th Edition of
ZopeMag Weekly News !
http://weekly.zopemag.com
We are excited to bring you the latest news as well as summaries of
tips and tricks communicated
via the Zope and Plone mailinglists.
ZopeMag Weekly News would not be possibe without the support of:
Imeme
http://imeme.net
eGenix
http://zope.egenix.com
Icoya / Struktur AG
http://www.icoya.com
Ape version 0.8 is ready. Ape now works with Zope 2.7 and can store the
root database. The number of concepts in Ape has been reduced, making it
easier to learn and extend.
Ape, the Adaptable Persistence Engine, adapts Python objects to storage on
the filesystem, in relational databases, or practically anywhere else. It
combines the advantages of transparent object persistence with arbitrary
databases and formats. Ape comes with two default mapper configurations,
a Zope2-filesystem mapper and a Zope2-SQL mapper.
http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/Ape/
Shane
I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.1.4 (PCNG)
PloneCollectorNG is a Plone-based bugtracking solution and framework.
Changes since V 1.1.3
- added manage_beforeDelete() hook to unindex a PCNG instance if
renamed or deleted
- fixed japanese catalog files
- anonymous users are no longer allowed to use the 'edit' action (only
allowed to
staff members)
- workaround for long outstanding !InvalidObjectReference bug
- enabled support for Archetypes 1.2 (references between issues are not
supported with AT 1.2.X)
Volunteers wanted:
PloneCollectorNG is fully internationalized. If you want PCNG to support
your language
that translate the catalog file (i18n folder) to your language and submit
it to me.
Note:
Any user should read doc/INSTALL.txt before the installation. Upgraders
should
reinstall the PCNG either through the quickinstall tool or through "Plone
setup".
"Documentation Wiki":http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PloneCollectorNG
"Download":http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55262&pack
age_id=96051
--
Andreas Jung
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www.zopyx.com Software-Entwicklung und Consulting Andreas Jung
Plone 2.0: The Most Productive Content Management System
The Plone Team announces the release of Plone 2.0, the next generation
of its rapidly growing open source Content Management System.
After an impressive launch, Plone continues to garner attention. Plone
was the highest-voted open source project for the O'Reilly pavilion at
COMDEX and was the only open source system invited to the Jupiter
Content Management Conference. Widely deployed worldwide, Plone has
been downloaded over 100,000 times, with many companies throughout the
world offering consulting, customization, and support.
"We chose Plone for many of our client projects because of its
out-of-the-box ease-of-use and features," says Barry Reicherter,
Vice President for Porter Novelli Interactive, a division of the
international media communications firm. "We could customize it
quickly for our clients' needs, while retaining the intuitive
interface and accessibility. That's critical for our clients'
success. We're looking forward to the improvements that Plone 2
offers, especially for larger organizations." Porter Novelli
Interactive has delivered Plone solutions as part of its mission
to deliver marketing-driven value to their clients, such as the
recent launching of usepropane.com, a national site designed and
managed entirely with Plone, and backed with a $25 million ad
campaign.
Plone 2.0 offers significant productivity gains for content managers
and developers. It includes an intuitive interface and out-of-the-box
features such as time-based content publishing and role-based
authoring and publishing. Particularly compelling for many
organizations is that Plone is available without licensing costs and
offers a similarly stable, feature-rich CMS environment as competing
commercial systems costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There are dozens of new features and improvements in Plone 2.0,
including:
* A user interface that has been streamlined and improved. Testing
has shown it to be both flexible and intuitive. It takes existing
features such as sophisticated workflow, wizard-style forms and
content editing and offers many improvements.
* Sites deployed on the Plone 2.0 platform conform with government
standards for website accessibility as the Plone interface is
compliant with Section 508 and WAI-AAA standards.
* The entire Plone interface is customizable using standards-compliant
programming and graphics tools.
* Add-on enhancements can now be installed, uninstalled, and
examined with a one-click process. Trying out new additions is
a snap.
* For enterprise users, user/group management features allow
sophisticated security configurations. User data can come from
many external sources, including LDAP, ActiveDirectory, or relational
databases. Workspaces allow intuitive group collaboration.
"The Plone community continues to amaze everybody who chooses to be a
part of it" said Alan Runyan, co-founder of Plone. "Many open source
projects are only attractive to hard core software developers but the
Plone project has attracted varied groups such as artists, musicians,
usability specialists, and industry gurus. The Plone project
management team is thrilled at the number of entities that offer
training, full support, hosting, and consulting services These
services provide a level of security and professionalism that allows
Plone to fit the needs of organizations around the world."
About Plone
Plone is the leading Content Management System for the award-winning
Zope application server. Supported by thousands of developers from
around the world, it is one of the most sophisticated, popular, and
easy to use Enterprise Content Management Systems on the market today.
Plone provides a highly customizable, server-side architecture, and
boasts a simple yet flexible API. Plone is highly scalable, stable,
extensible, and has open standards as its core mentality. It runs on
many operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X,
and many varieties of Unix. It has wide international support, and is
shipped with the interface available in over 30 languages. Users of
Plone include Marriott, NASA, Lufthansa, Continental Airlines, the
Governors of Texas and Hawaii, and many others. Information about
Plone is available at http://plone.org.
Press Contacts
Paul Everitt
Zope Europe Association
paul(a)zope-europe.org
--
__________________________________________________________________
Alexander Limi · Interaction Architect · Plone Solutions
Development · Training · Support · http://www.plonesolutions.com
__________________________________________________________________
Plone Co-Founder · http://plone.org · Connecting Content
This is to announce the release of Pound v1.7.
Changes in this version:
- Fixed bug in X-SSL-CIPHER description: the description no longer
causes problems by breaking the request
- Changed README to stx format for consistency
- Addedd X-SSL-certificate with full client certificate contents
- changed the old-style responses to support "streaming" mode. This
should help especially OpenACS users:
- Improved the response times on HTTP/0.9 (content without
Content-length)
- Improved response granularity on above - using unbuffered BIO
functions now
- Fixed problem with IE/SSL (SSL_set_shutdown)
- Avoid error messages on premature EOF from client
- Fixed HeadRemove code so all headers are checked without exception
- Improved autoconf detection and fixed various compile-time problems
- Moved from select() to poll() in order to avoid limitations on the
number of descriptors
The software is at version 1.7 (production quality). Further testing
(especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are
welcome.
What is Pound (from the Web page)
- a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or
more back-end servers.
- a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client
browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session
information.
- an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers
and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end browsers.
- an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness
and accept only well-formed ones.
- an HTTP/1.1 to 1.0 proxy.
- a fail-over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take
note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers.
- a request redirector - it will pass client requests to separate groups
of servers, based on required URL and the presence or absence of headers
(pattern matching)
Pound was specifically developed to serve as a front-end for multiple
instances of Zope running on top of a common ZEO storage, but can be
used with any other web server. A patch for the Python source of z2.py
is available as part of the distribution to allow using Pound's SSL
capabilities.
Pound is currently in use in several medium to large volume sites and
seems to be holding up quite well: largest reported site does about 5.5
million requests per day, peaking at over 450 requests per second. The
speed is well superior to other, equivalent solutions, the configuration
is much simpler and the necessary resources (CPU, RAM, disk) are much,
much lower.
Pound is distributed under the GPL.
For further information, download, etc. please see
http://www.apsis.ch/pound
Pound now has its own mailing-list - just send a message to
pound-subscribe(a)apsis.ch in order to join.
Enjoy and let me know how it works for you.
--
Robert Segall
Apsis GmbH
Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707
Tel: +41-1-920 4904
eRacks Offers a New Level of Zope Server Customization
Laguna Beach, CA March 18, 2004 - eRacks Open Source Systems recently
revealed a pioneering extension to its online computer system
configurator. Customers are now able to select from a live list of
software packages to be installed on their server at the time they place
their order. eRacks offers a finely-tuned Zope web application server
customized with selected Zope packages. These packages are chosen from
an up-to-date set of components available on zope.org, the official
website for the Zope community.
eRacks management has indicated that this new level of customization is
the beginning of an exciting, new trend that enables customers to
completely customize their hardware and software preferences. Joseph
Wolff, founder of eRacks explains, "Our goal at eRacks is to return
control of technology to the enterprise, freeing our customers from
critical dependence on third-party software vendors, and lowering both
their cost and risk. This is why we promote open source software and
customize our servers to such a fine degree. We want to provide that
head-start advantage to our customers."
In keeping with eRacks' philosophy, the eRacks/ZOPE application server
is designed for high-performance and reliability. The server is
customized to include any set of Zope packages, as well as other
configurable components. The company's experience with Zope extends from
its own web server to numerous enterprise-level implementations.
Zope is a Python-based web application server. It features a
transactional object database, stores both content and code, and enables
fully dynamic web pages. Its tight security capabilities enable granular
permission control as well as web-based authoring. Numerous Zope
components vastly extend the basic set of site building tools. These
include connectors to relational databases and other external data
sources, issue tracking, and e-commerce among others.
The eRacks/ZOPE server is competitively priced and is available at
www.eRacks.com. To help clients establish new Zope-based applications,
eRacks also offers professional consulting services. For detailed
information, please visit the company website.
About eRacks Open Source Systems
eRacks Open Source Systems is a leading provider of open source
solutions for the enterprise. The company offers rackmount computer
servers, desktops, and laptops and provides a wide array of services
including open source enterprise migration, security, and network
architecture design. More information on eRacks' products and services
can be found at www.eRacks.com.
For more information contact:
Tarek H. Elabbadi
Director of Marketing & Sales
eRacks Open Source Systems
info(a)eRacks.com
phone: +949 376 9220
http://www.eracks.com
Hi,
yesterday I've released PropertyTools - the successor of
PropertyObject/-folder.
What the hell are PropertyTools good for?
If you want to "prototype" object-oriented database-applications with Zope,
PropertyTools will provide you with handy data-storages. If you get the idea
behind PropertyTools (and the object-factory-tool AbracadabraObject), you can
create simple database-applications based on the ZMI within 5 minutes (of
course you can create complex applications with PropertyTools too, I've done
some complex apps like univerisity-course-management-systems with lots of
relations etc. based on PropertyTools in the last months which run nicely in
production).
If you spend just some additional minutes, you'll be done with a customized
webapplication within 2 hours...:) Think of PropertyTools-Objects as lockable
& sortable & workflowable ZMI-propertysheets which can be synchronized via a
virtual class-attribute (object_type). Additionaly you can define different
templates for rendering each virtual PropertyTools-class.
Creating a simple faq-database or a contact-database with PropertyTools can be
done in minutes, not hours... I'll promise!
What's changed to 1.x?
- Added PropertyFile besides PropertyObject & PropertyFolder
- Added simple demo.zexp (a faq-database) to demonstrate
how to use PropertyTools.
- Updated property-sheets to Zope2.7-templates.
- Refactored all code for managing the propertysheets into
a new Mixin-Class PropertyTools.
- Added additional Top/Buttom-Buttons for ordering properties.
Thanks to Steve McMahon for his patches!
- Fixed a bug in manage_changeProperties. Keyword-Arguments
were broken for empty REQUESTs. Thanks to Abel Deuring!
- Removed support for published-attribute. Added support
for simple workflows based on PythonScripts.
- Removed PropertyObjectDescription.
Where can I download PropertyTools?
http://mjablonski.zope.de/PropertyTools
(and you should also download)
http://mjablonski.zope.de/AbracadabraObject
Keep zoped,
Cheers, Maik