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Belated Book Blurb
by jerry 11 Feb '02

11 Feb '02

(this is a copy, the address got mangled the first time) Greetings Zope Fans, At long last we are officially posting notice that: "The New Zope Book is here!" In mid-December 2001 a book with a ridiculously long title, and author names to match, turned up in the Web section of bookstores here and abroad. Though no known group claimed responsibility at that time, the alleged authors hereby acknowledge paternity. Since our names are on the cover, it seems rather pointless to remain in denial. "Zope: Web Application Development and Content Management" (ISBN # 0735711100) has been released by New Riders, publishers of the hard copy version of "The Zope Book". The authors were convinced that many Zope hopefuls, not unlike ourselves, had wished for supplementary examples beyond those covered in "The Zope Book". We all agreed it would be ideal to have a series of extended explanations of how and why one puts Zope to practical use. So, we went ahead and wrote it. Z:WAD&CM is designed to step the reader through a sequence of progressively more complex "real world" exercises. After a brief overview, the reader is advised to take advantage of the wealth of existing modules by downloading packages and constructing a dynamic, sophisticated web site in short order. Next, the reader is immersed in user and site administration, content management with CMF and Page Templates, indexes and searching via ZCatalog, and external database access using ZopeDAs and ZSQLmethods. Topics covered in the latter chapters will be most relevant to those facing more challenging needs for robust development standards required by mission critical systems. There you will find examples of load balancing and redundancy using ZEO, multi-developer version control with ZCVS, and ZPatterns based application integration techniques. The authors realize that despite the best intentions to present the current "state of the (Zope) art", our book is merely a set of snapshots from scattered quadrants of the rapidly expanding Zope universe. Still, we hope the finished work is useful, helpful, and may even see a second edition one day. Regarding the pace of Zope development, primary author Steve Spicklemire says: "Writing a book about Zope is like making an ice sculpture of rush-hour traffic." Accordingly, errata, updates, and timely tips have already begun to accumulate at the companion web site: http://webdev.zopeonarope.com Our thanks goes out to all the Zope folks around the globe, and at Zope.com. Your dedication and enthusiasm have made Zope an Object Publishing Environment that sets the bar just a bit higher for everything else. Also, many thanks to New Riders for "taking us on", and for jumping into Zope with both feet! Sincerely, Jerry Spicklemire, (also for Steve Spicklemire, Kevin Friedly, and Kim Brand)

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Call Profiler 1.4 released
by Richard Jones 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Call Profiler - profile your Zope website ekit.com is proud to announce the first release of their profiling tool for Zope websites. Version 1.4 cleans up the display of results (significantly in some places) and also cleans up the data store. This will be the last release for a while, I hope :) The Call Profiler product monitors the chain of DTML, ZSQL, ZPT, PythonMethod, PythonScript, etc. calls in a Zope request and gathers timing information, for the purpose of identifying hot-spots for potential optimisation. Please read the README.txt before installing - it has important information! Call Profiler: http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/CallProfiler/ ekit.com: http://www.ekit-inc.com/

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RELEASED - StandaloneZODB 1.0 final
by barry＠zope.com 09 Feb '02

09 Feb '02

I'm please to announce the release of StandaloneZODB, the Python object persistency system also known as the Z Object Database. ZODB is the object-oriented database underlying Zope; the StandaloneZODB project's goal is to provide those same facilities to non-Zope related Python applications. Today we are releasing StandaloneZODB 1.0 final. A brief description of the changes since release candidate 1 is outlined below. StandaloneZODB is based on the same code as the ZODB in Zope, albeit on a separate release branch. Its inspiration comes from Andrew Kuchling's StandaloneZODB project on SourceForge. While there are still some differences, the Standalone 1.0 release is the first on the path toward convergence. Subsequent releases should complete the merge of Andrew's and Zope Corporation's packages. The StandaloneZODB release includes the following components: - Core ZODB, including the persistence machinery - Standard storages such as FileStorage - Supporting modules such as ExtensionClass - The persistent BTrees modules - ZEO - Experimental Berkeley storages - Some documentation <wink> See the README file for details on building and installing StandaloneZODB. For details on using ZODB, see Andrew's included user guide. StandaloneZODB 1.0 is released under the ZPL 2.0. It should be compatible with all Python versions from Python 2.1 to Python 2.2. It may or may not work with versions earlier than Python 2.1. Download StandaloneZODB-1.0 from: http://www.zope.org/Products/StandaloneZODB and visit the StandaloneZODB Wiki page at: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/StandaloneZODB See also: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage for more information about our long-range ZODB plans. Enjoy, -Barry Barry A. Warsaw Zope Corporation, Pythonlabs barry(a)zope.com -------------------- snip snip -------------------- What's new in StandaloneZODB 1.0 final? Release date: 08-Feb-2002 ======================================= All copyright notices have been updated to reflect the fact that the ZPL 2.0 covers this release. Added a cleanroom PersistentList.py implementation, which multiply inherits from UserDict and Persistent. Some improvements in setup.py and test.py for sites that don't have the Berkeley libraries installed. A new program, zeoup.py was added which simply verifies that a ZEO server is reachable. Also, a new program zeopack.py was added which connects to a ZEO server and packs it.

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Zope Contract
by Gemma Skillett 08 Feb '02

08 Feb '02

Hi, I am urgently seeking a Zope Consultant for a 2 week contract starting on Monday 11th February (or as soon after as possible) in Central London. I need 6 months plus commercial experience, and you will be working with a team working on a Web Site. Paying £51.00 per hour for a standard 37.5 hour week. PLEASE contact me if you are available. Kind regards Gemma Gemma Skillett Senior Consultant Blue Pelican IT Tel: 01580 20 16 16 Fax: 01580 20 20 00 gemma.skillett(a)bluepelicanit.com ____________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail is confidential and is intended only for use of the above addressee. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Blue Pelican IT. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received this email in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Blue Pelican IT 01580 201616 ____________________________________________________________________________

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ImportNTGroups 1.0 released
by Igor Leturia 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

The first version of ImportNTGroups, a product that imports all the groups you have defined in your NT domain as Zope roles, has been released. ImportNTGroups works together with jcNTUserFolder. If you create a jcNTUserFolder, all the users you have defined in your NT domain appear automatically. With this product, all this imported NT users are automatically assigned the roles of the groups they belong to, and when you want to change the permissions of any Zope object, all the groups appear as roles too. More information at http://www.zope.org/Members/igorleturia/ImportNTGroups.

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Call Profiler 1.3 released
by Richard Jones 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

Call Profiler - profile your Zope website ekit.com is proud to announce the first release of their profiling tool for Zope websites. Version 1.3 fixes a bunch of stuff I broke in 1.2 ;) The Call Profiler product monitors the chain of DTML, ZSQL, ZPT, PythonMethod, PythonScript, etc. calls in a Zope request and gathers timing information, for the purpose of identifying hot-spots for potential optimisation. Please read the README.txt before installing - it has important information! Call Profiler: http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/CallProfiler/ ekit.com: http://www.ekit-inc.com/

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Call Profiler 1.2 released
by Richard Jones 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Call Profiler - profile your Zope website ekit.com is proud to announce the first release of their profiling tool for Zope websites. Version 1.2 adds aggregation of identical runs - use ApacheBench or a similar tool to hit your site multiple times, then view the aggregate all those runs (average or min/average/max). The Call Profiler product monitors the chain of DTML, ZSQL, ZPT, PythonMethod, PythonScript, etc. calls in a Zope request and gathers timing information, for the purpose of identifying hot-spots for potential optimisation. Please read the README.txt before installing - it has important information! Call Profiler: http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/CallProfiler/ ekit.com: http://www.ekit-inc.com/

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New version of ZCGI
by Adrian Hungate 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Version 1.1.0 of ZCGI is now available. ZCGI is designed to bridge the gap between traditional web design, and Zope. In a traditional web environment, if you want server-side processing, you write/buy/borrow a CGI-BIN script, put it in a folder that supports the CGI-BIN protocol, and then call it from a link or form on one of your HTML pages. ZCGI was originally designed to do just this, and allow people to slowly move from CGI-BIN to Zope External Methods, Python Scripts, or Python Products, but as the project has progressed, and especially after I released 1.0.0 I realized that there are a LOT of excellant CGI-BIN products out there, and it is simply not feasable to have users or authors transition to fully Zope execution (http://cvs.zope.org and uses an excellant CGI-BIN called viewcvs). So, instead of simply making the transition to Zope easier, I have now focused on making as many (Often badly written, or only marginally conformant) CGI-BIN scripts as possible able to run directly under Zope. This release gets MUCH closer with the addition of reliable handling of PATH_INFO and redirects among many other changes. Many thanks for valuable assistance bug hunting and squashing go to Marc Lindahl - http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc who helped me immensely throughout this development cycle. The new version is available from http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa and now, for the first time (And thanks to ZCGI) from http://cvs.haqa.co.uk/viewcvs/ZCGI !! Adrian... -- The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. - Sun Tzu

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Call Profiler - profile your Zope website
by Richard Jones 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

Call Profiler - profile your Zope website ekit.com is proud to announce the first release of their profiling tool for Zope websites. The Call Profiler product monitors the chain of DTML, ZSQL, ZPT, PythonMethod, PythonScript, etc. calls in a Zope request and gathers timing information, for the purpose of identifying hot-spots for potential optimisation. Please read the README.txt before installing - it has important information! Call Profiler: http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/CallProfiler/ ekit.com: http://www.ekit-inc.com/

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new.zope.org tirekicking take two
by Martijn Pieters 29 Jan '02

29 Jan '02

Hi all, The CMF-based new.zope.org is ready for a second and probably final round of tirekicking by the Zope community. Please have a good poke about on: http://new.zope.org Zope Corp has worked on the software, and we believe that it is now ready for the community to take over, but we do want you to go around and try things out first, and most of all file reports about problems you find, so we can make a last round of fixes. Note that in this process we have completely cleared out the old new.zope.org database, and re-migrated all content from www.zope.org again, so you will not find anything there you previously may have created on this site. Also, the user database from www.zope.org has been re-exported, so all new accounts created just for new.zope.org are gone as well. New accounts on www.zope.org are now of course available on new.zope.org as well. Please file any bugs and other problems with new.zope.org in the Collector: http://collector.zope.org/ZopeOrg -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@zope.com | Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------

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