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ZopeDebugging - "Conversing With Zope" paper and a wiki
by Ken Manheimer 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I presented a paper at the PyCon python conference last week, "Conversing with Zope: Interactive Debugging Using the Python Prompt", and i've put the paper in a wiki, at: http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/ZopeDebugging The paper contains techniques, tips, and hints for interacting with Zope using the python prompt and pdb. It can be eye-opening and sometimes incredibly handy to interact with Zope that way. The wiki includes the paper, a complete recipe for setting up a ZEO-based Zope site, and also space for feedback and visitor-contributed tips - this could be a place to collect and grow zope debugging wisdom... -- Ken klm(a)zope.com

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MyMediaManager 1.2b2 released
by Gitte Wange 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

In this release a lot of bugs have been fixed and the GUI has been improved. Find the newest release at: http://www.zope.org/Members/gittew/MyMediaManager/ -- Gitte Wange Technical Manager Email: gitte(a)mmmanager.org Web: http://www.mmmanager.org Tlf: +45 36 46 20 02 When Jim [Fulton] says "tricky" it means your brain could explode. -- Michel Pelletier, 15 Dec 1999

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CMFPortalLayout-0.1b1 released !
by Gitte Wange 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hello, Today we released the first beta version of CMF Portal Layout. From the release announce on zope.org: "CMF Portal Layout is kind of like CMF Porlets. The idea is that you can define a portal layout by defining rows and columns and filling these up with "Layout items" (like portlets). Layout can be applied to folderish content, and defines the layout for the folder and subfolders. Layout on a folder can be overwritten and changed depending on permissions, on a subfolder. At top level, manager can "lock" certain rows or columns, or selected layout items in rows and columns. Manager also defines a "Main slot", where content is presented. Rows and colums definitions are then used to generate the ZPT templates for the site. User can change the layout of their memberfolder, by adding rows and columns to their main slot, and add or remove layout items to the existing layout, if the inherited layout items aren't locked." The product can be downloaded at http://www.zope.org/Members/gittew/CMFPortalLayout/ -- Gitte Wange Technical Manager Email: gitte(a)mmmanager.org Web: http://www.mmmanager.org Tlf: +45 36 46 20 02 It starts as a benign web server with online content management... and turns into an insidious learning curve that will destroy your every waking hour. That is, until you uncover the secret that lets you do what you wanted it to in the first place. -- somebody describing the Zope experience to Jon Udell

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Plone PoPoll released !
by Olivier Deckmyn - Ingeniweb 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi all, Ingeniweb, leading french company for Zope hosting and engineering is proud to announce the availability of a new content type for Plone : PlonePoPoll (http://ingeniweb.sourceforge.net/ ). Projet is fully Open-Source and hosted at SourceForge. This is a full polling/voting component for Plone. List of features : - A poll is a content-type : any user can propose a poll - User can only vote once. Another vote replaces the former one - A vote can be active or inactive, results are shown in a elegant design, - Latest published poll can be shown in a slot - Support Workflows As usual, full api is documented and available online : http://ingeniweb.sourceforge.net/Products/PlonePopoll/api/PlonePopoll.html Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ingeniweb -- Olivier DECKMYN - CTO INGENIWEB (TM) - SARL 50000 Euros - RC B 438 725 632 2 cours du 14 Juillet - 78300 Poissy France - +331 300 601 41 web : www.ingeniweb.com - « les Services Web Ingénieux » PGP : http://www.ingeniweb.com/keys/olivier.deckmyn

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[ANN] Python-Hosting.com: new Hosting Provider specialized in Python
by Remi Delon 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

We are pleased to announce http://python-hosting.com, a new hosting provider specialized in Python. We support most Python web tools, including Zope, Plone, WebWare, CherryPy, ... You can get your own Zope/Plone server for 25$/month. Remi.

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[Ann] HCFileStorage: History controllable FileStorage
by Dieter Maurer 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

ZODB's FileStorage supports interesting information about modifications of the objects it maintains. The information includes when objects were changed, how they were changed and by whom they were changed. It is possible to revert to an old state. However, FileStorage provides only limited control for the management of this historical information. Packing deletes all non-current object versions before the specified pack time and effectively eliminates historical information before the pack time. HCFileStorage provides better control in that it allows the definition of history categories. A history category has a name, consists of a set of base classes and has an associated default retension time. When an object version is about to be deleted by packing, it is checked whether the object belongs to one of the defined history categories. If it does, it is only deleted when it is older than the retension time. An object belongs to the first history category such that it is an instance of one of the categories classes. The only differences between HCFileStorage and FileStorage lie in the constructor and packing. Otherwise, HCFileStorage is identical to FileStorage. Download: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> Dieter

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[Ann] ZopeProfiler 0.2: what Zope uses its time for
by Dieter Maurer 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

I have released ZopeProfiler version 0.2. ZopeProfiler helps you to understand what Zope uses its time for. It can derive both low and high level timing statistics. More information and download: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> New in version 0.2: * Python 2.2.2 incompatibility fixed * real time and CPU time timer (on plattforms supporting both) * much more careful monkey patching (hopefully removing a problem with WingIDE's debugging support for Zope) Dieter

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FYI - Zope TurboIntranet training April 28 - May 1
by Brian Lloyd 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

Hi all - (I'm copying this to the zope list since some who have asked for more information have made the point that they don't watch the zope-announce list.) We've received a lot of feedback from the community over time about the desire for more advanced Zope training options. We are happy to now be able to offer Zope TurboIntranet training, which combines a professional product (with source code) with advanced training that covers Zope, the CMF architecture and the intranet product itself. For those that may be interested, a ZTI class is coming up April 28 - May 1. More info is available at: http://www.zope.com/ZTICommunityAnnounce Please send questions or requests for more info to training(a)zope.com rather than me directly. Flames can go to me directly :^) Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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DirectoryStorage 1.1 beta 1
by Toby Dickenson 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am pleased to announce the first beta release version 1.1. This has been a long time moving from alpha to beta release, so I expect this beta cycle to move quickly. Changes in this release include: 1. Replication! Keep an online backup copy of your storage up to date with the latest changes from the master. I am currently running this from cron every minute of the day. Like the rest of DirectoryStorage this is designed to be robust, safe, and manageable. Replication is efficient - It uses ssh to connect replica to master. If your users have added a 100k file to your storage then replication is only marginally less efficient than using scp to copy a 100k file. Full Documentation is at http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/replica.html 2. Some tweaks to the packing strategy. This shaves a little time and memory when packing a typical storage. 3. Support for classes that keep their history longer than normal. This is useful if you want to keep all revisions of a class for auditing purposes, or because you want to view extra history of a class using a Zope 'history' tab. 4. Support for keeping less information about ancient transactions. This is typically a 5% space saving if you dont mind Zope's history tab showing nothing for objects that havent been modified since the last pack. 5. Added read-only mode. 6. This release does not fix any critical bugs. Anyone happy with 1.0.0 need not feel any pressure to upgrade. Download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53818&release_id=1491… Detailed Change Log: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dirstorage/DirectoryStorage/… Discussion: dirstorage-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+guC499Pa/DbwZfsRAkYtAJ4vNJZv/1OVENsdkDTQRcC/ueJU/QCfckFo RCe39/jpvS+ifyQm6m/rOF0= =cK4g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MPoll 1.0 Released
by Magnus Heino 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Hi. I just released MPoll, a simple cookie based Poll product. It requires Archetypes (http://www.sf.net/projects/archetypes) and Plone (http://www.plone.org) Get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/collective/ -- /Magnus

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