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External Editor 0.1 - Use your favorite editor directly from the ZMI
by Casey Duncan 15 May '02

15 May '02

Are you getting a bit tired of kludgy Zope editing solutions? Have textareas got you down? Not entirely impressed with WebDAV? Is FTP getting on your last nerve? Have you ever wanted to just click on an object in the ZMI, have your favorite editor pop up and edit to your heart's content? Impossible...too good to be true...never gonna happen, right? *Wrong*. ExternalEditor is a new approach to integrating Zope with external editing tools. It consists of two parts: a simple Zope product and a configurable client-side helper application that work together with the editing tools of your choice. Because of the way the helper application is designed, it can work with *any* graphical editor that can open and save a file. It works equally well with text and binary data. Click and edit your Page Templates in emacs, your images with gimp. When you save the changes, the helper application automatically uploads the data back to Zope. When you exit the application, the helper app also exits. Edit as many objects simultaneously as you like. ExternalEditor automatically handles locking so that only one person can be editing an object at a time (externally or through the web). Any object that can be edited via FTP or DAV works with ExternalEditor. Check out the product page for details and to download! http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/ExternalEditor Enjoy! -Casey

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CFP: Give a lightning talk at EuroPython 2002
by Paul Everitt 13 May '02

13 May '02

EuroPython 2002 is rapidly approaching: http://www.europython.org/ The morning of the third day has time reserved for lightning talks. These are ten minute presentations on a project or technology that require less preparation than formal talks. Due to the fast pace, lightning talks have become a crowd favorite at Python conferences. If you are interested in giving a lightning talk, please contact Paul Everitt (paul(a)zope.com) with a title and brief abstract. EuroPython 2002 is the important event for Python and Zope users in Europe. Held June 26-28 in Charelroi, Belgium, the conference anticipates hundreds of attendees and an agenda packed with tutorials, presentations, lightning talks, and birds-of-a-feather meetings. --Paul

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 1.0 alpha 2 released
by Andreas Jung 09 May '02

09 May '02

I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of TextIndexNG V 1.0. 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 (HTML, PDF, WinWord, PowerPoint, Postscript). Custom converters can be easily added * stemmer support for 12 languages * optional support for right truncation * similarity search (soundex, metaphone support) (for english) * NEAR search * phrase search * pluggable query parsers (two parsers included) * stop words support * new test tab for interactive testing * 2-3 times faster than Zopes TextIndex (more to come ;-) ) * compatible with ASCII, ISO-8859-1 Requirements: * Zope 2.5 or Zope CVS trunk checkout Documentation: * http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/wiki Download: * http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/ Installation: * The installation is described in the Wiki (see above) Changes sind alpha 1: * complete Registry implementation rewritten. Interfaces for pluggable components are strictly enforced. * every pluggable component resides now in a registry * broken similarity search fixed * additional options for interactiveDemo.py * integrated Matt Hamiltons compressed lists code * changed license of TextIndexNG to ZPL * the queryparser extension module should now build out-of-the-box at least on all Unix plattforms (flex, bison required). * minor code cleanup and speedup in the extension modules Contact: * Andreas Jung, Email: andreas at andreas-jung.com

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Squishdot 1.4.1 Released!
by Chris Withers 09 May '02

09 May '02

Squishdot 1.4.1 is now available from: http://www.squishdot.org/Download. The following changes were made: - You can now delete specific postings using the Moderation page. - The Posting and Article editing forms have been improved. - The tests and updaters were improved slightly. 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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mod_pcgi2 version 2.0.1
by Oleg Broytmann 08 May '02

08 May '02

Hello! I am pleased to announce mod_pcgi2 version 2.0.1 - Apache module for Zope/PCGI. WHAT'S NEW in version 2.0.1 Updated for latest Apache2. Tested with Apache 1.3.24 and 2.0.36. Apache2 should be patched to properly configure and build the module. WHERE TO GET http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2/ AUTHOR Oleg Broytmann <phd(a)phd.pp.ru> LICENSE GPL Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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ANNOUCE: Project Gideon
by kapil thangavelu 07 May '02

07 May '02

Project Gideon is an application framework for zope. It was originally created to build a CPAN repository for python in zope. The Gideon project is still young and experimental in stability, but i hope that the ideas and implementation will still be of use to other zope developers. Gideon is released under the GPL. It can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Members/k_vertigo/Products/Gideon it has no external dependencies other than Zope (possibly requiring *nix as well) Lots of work is still needed to finish and improve both the Python Repository and Gideon. If you'd like to help, please contact me at kvthan(a)wm.edu developers, ui designers, and testers needed! Core Features - Application Model provides a lookup model, allowing for nested applications and service providers. - Event Channel A publish/subscribe event model, with support for pull and push event models (pull model supported via an event queue). - Page Contract Input Validation. allows for filters and transformers to be applied in a pipelined fashion to input. useable from DTML, PythonScripts, and PythonProducts. - BTree UserFolder 'nough said. - User Directory Storage for UserWorkpaces, providing an api for retrieval and search of workspaces - User Workspaces Provides a users data container. along with a plugin api for applications to register workspace collaborators. - Groups (Experimental) an api object layer over local roles, to provide for group membership and permission management. - Scheduling System (Experimental) a thread scheduler for zope - BulkTxnMailer (Experimental) a mailhost that sends email to the fs for queued delivery at the completion of a transaction. - Object Linking Service (Experimental) Dynamically updated object path based references - Catalog Utils utilities for use with zcatalog, Catalog Schemas, CacheQueries, and Distributed Queries. Content Features - RSS/OCS News Feeds - Subscriptions A subscription system built on top of the event channel, that allows users to subscribe directly to event channel events. provides for queued delivery of events. - WebServices Trader A ORB/Trader for abstraction of protocol handling and implementation for HTTP RPC protocols. - Tracker (Experimental) A simple bug tracker. The implementation utilizes a property schema that combines some of the features of page contract and catalog schemas for generic handling of issues independent of their defined schema. - Calendar Storage most of the core features will be available separately as well (some such as the EventChannel, and PageContract already are.) cheers kapil thangavelu

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[Ann] VHM RemoteAddr patch
by Dieter Maurer 07 May '02

07 May '02

VirtualHostMonster, or short VHM, is usually used together with Apache's rewrite rules and proxy mode to implement virtual hosting. Unfortunately, when used in this way, Zope's REMOTE_ADDR is the (usually uninteresting) IP address of the Apache server and not the one of the browser/its proxy. There is an Apache patch that passes this IP address via an VIA header, but this is against the HTTP 1.1 spec. This VHM patch enables VHM to take the remote address from the URL. If the URL segments following the VirtualHostBase/protocol/host are VirtualHostRemoteAddr/remote_addr, then VHM sets Zope's REMOTE_ADDR to remote_addr. This feature is used together with Apache rewrite rules of the form: RewriteRule pattern http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/proto/host/VirtualHostRemoteAddr/%{RE… [P]. For download see <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> Dieter

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BlogFace 1.0 released
by Karl Anderson 03 May '02

03 May '02

I've released a stable version of BlogFace, a weblog interface for cataloged Zope objects. http://www.zope.org/Members/karl/BlogFace/BlogFace This release includes some notes on blogging a wiki. http://www.zope.org/Members/karl/BlogFace/BlogFace/wikiblog.txt -- Karl Anderson kra(a)monkey.org http://www.monkey.org/~kra/

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StartupScripts 0.9.0 Released
by grahamd＠dscpl.com.au 02 May '02

02 May '02

The StartupScripts product provides a way of having Python scripts in the ZODB run when Zope first starts up. This is an initial release for the purpose of having it more widely tested in practical situations. Feedback would be much appreciated, especially as to whether there might be a better way of doing things such as getting access to the application context when required by the implementation. Note that instances of the Python startup scripts need to be placed in the root folder in order for them to get run at Zope startup. When run the scripts will be run with the privileges of the script owner. The internal implementation of the StartupScript object is such that it extends the PythonScript object, so anything you can do with a normal Python script you can also do with a StartupScript object. The only exception to this may be that the "container" object passed to a script may not have all the same methods and attributes which are present when a script object is called through the web. Ie., no RESPONSE object, and no way of getting the URL associated with the request. -- Graham Dumpleton (grahamd(a)dscpl.com.au)

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New release of My Media Manager
by Gitte Wange 01 May '02

01 May '02

Last release before 1.0 will hit the streets !!! Very close to a version 1.0 of My Media Manager, we are releasing the last beta version before releasing the final version. There has been no API changes, but a lot of bugs has been fixed and the templates have been improved a lot. Even though we are calling this a development release, it should work just fine. There won't be any changes between this release and 1.0 final if no bugs turn up. Download it from http://www.zope.org/Members/gittew/MyMediaManager Greetings, Gitte Wange

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