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ANN: CMF Web Agent 0.1
by Doug Hellmann 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

CMF Web Agent The CMF Web Agent is an application that allows you to monitor the entire web (or as much as is indexed by Google, 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. For more details, check it out at: http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/CMFWebAgent and http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/CMFWebAgent/README Enjoy responsibly, Doug

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New SmartSection Release available!
by Stephan Richter 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Hello everyone, I am proud to announce that a new version of SmartSections is availble. In the last months SmartSections matured a lot and is now by multiples more stable. You can now safely use the product in production! There is also a total new look and feel put on top of it, so that the user can immediately see how powerful the product is. There is also now a field available that allows one to enter HTML safely. Much thanks goeas also to Dirk Datzert and Joachim Werner, who contributes major changes and bug reports. SmartSection Home Page: http://demo.iuveno-net.de Zope SmartSection: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/SmartSections Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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ZOQL Method 0.4.0 development preview
by Stephan Richter 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Hello everyone, it has been a while, since the ZOQL team has posted any progress. This was due to the fact that Thomas Foerster rewrote the entire ZOQL Grammar, Lexer and Semantics! Everything is now much more object- and component-oriented and therefore easier to develop with. The kwParsing Module (that generates the language and provides the generic parser) has been adapted to Python 2.1 by moving all regex to re. There are also many unittests that help with the quality assurance of the product. New Features: The language rules itself changed slightly, in order to remove some sneaky reduce and shift errors in the parser. We also changed some language rules, if we found that the old way was inconsistent. But I think the biggest new feature is the ability to add python-based products (if your Zope user has the required permissions on the FS). Here ZOQLMethod makes use of the slightly refactored MakeProduct product which was originally developed by Erik Enge, Thingamy. Since Erik does not work with Zope anymore, I took over the project, and will develop it further in combination with ZOQLMethod. Another small new feature is the ability to add sequences to your Zope tree, but it does not do much yet. What is ZOQL? ZOQL is a query language similar to SQL for the ZODB. Since other Object Query Language standards were not suitable, we developed ZOQL from scratch, having only Zope in mind. ZOQL Methods allow you to quickly query and manipulate objects in the ZODB. You do not require the ZCatalog or worry about all the namespace issues. There are no dependencies on ZOQLMethod and it should be platform independent. ZOQLMethod Homepage: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZOQLMethod Zope Page: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/ZOQLMethod Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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FreeZope, Free Non-Commercial Zope Hosting
by Ivo van der Wijk 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Amaze Internet Services is happy to announce: FreeZope, your personal Zope Environment! At FreeZope, you can look what Zope has to offer, create a highly dynamic personal page, or just play around and see what Zope can do for you. Zope is a highly expandable, python based, application server with a very advanced through-the-web management interface, and supports many common protocols such as webdav, ftp, xml, sql, and many more. At FreeZope we offer you a zope folder with userfolder under your own freezope.org subdomain for non-commercial use, and a number of products installed. These products include Squishdot, a Slashdot-alike community board, the Photo Folder, for all your digital images, ZUBB which adds a forum to your site, Zope Page Templates, Meerkat, a poll, a counter and many more. Please check http://www.freezope.org/information for the full list of products available. The list of installed products is updated continuously, and we are open for new product suggestions. FreeZope also hosts a discussion mailinglist, where you can ask for help and discuss away with other developers, a public forum for discussion and even an IRC server for online chatting with fellow Zopistas! The Discussion archives can be found at: http://lists.amaze.nl/pipermail/discussion/ The Forum is located at: http://www.freezope.org/forum/ (Or click 'Forum' on the main page.) The IRC server can be reached at: irc.freezope.org:6667 Note that the IRC server is a standalone server and not connected to any IRC network. Head over to http://www.freezope.org/ now and register yourself today! The FreeZope team! -- 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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Zope Support in Quanta Gold
by Eron Lloyd 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

The Kompany has added to its latest version of Quanta Gold the beginnings of native support for Zope and Python Web application development. This includes the ability to access a running Zope server through an integrated FTP client and directly edit DTML objects and Python scripts. The first phase provides customizable syntax-highlighting for DTML and Python, as well quick access to the "_" namespace functions and the math, string, and random modules. With each release, more integration will be available, for things such as Zope Page Templates and XML. Quanta Gold is a cross-platform Web application environment available for Linux (x86 & PowerPC), Windows (NT/2000/XP, etc.) and MacOS X. It's similar to Allaire Homesite with tight support for open source Web platforms such as Zope, PHP, Python, and Perl. It provides extensive code-editing facilities, advanced CSS support, project management capabilities, CVS integration, markup validation thanks to TIDY integration, instant rendering previews, fast DOM parsing and node-based editing of markup documents, and extensive reference documentation. Suggestions and feedback are welcomed from the Zope community. More information can be found at http://www.thekompany.com/products/quanta/

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DISCUSS: Open house and Zope3 sprint after IPC10
by Paul Everitt 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Howdy. We're planning a small open house here in Fredericksburg the day after the Python conference, on Friday Feb 8. We're also considering a Zope3 extreme programming "sprint" around the same time (Thu/Fri, Fri/Sat, or Thu/Fri/Sat). A number of you have already indicated interest in both of these events. We'd love to see as many of you as we could, and also to schedule a Zope3 development activity while so many of you will be around. If you are interested, please email me. Later this week I'll put out something more formal. --Paul

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Roundup 0.4.0b1 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Roundup 0.4.0b1 - an issue tracking system If you are upgrading please read MIGRATION.txt. Roundup requires python 2.1.1 for correct operation. Support for dumbdbm requires python 2.1.2 or 2.2. Big stuff in this release: - Use of transactions to prevent partial data commits - Zope Product front-end - Nicer, more consistent change message generation - Several bug fixes - Much, much more: see the CHANGES file for details. Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.0+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates and three database back-ends.

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New Zope News
by Chris McDonough 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

Thanks to Casey Duncan and Martijn Faassen, The Zope News for January 4 is out! Check it out by visiting the front page of Zope.org at http://www.zope.org. Cheers, - C

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GraphMethod 0.3.0 released
by Stephan Richter 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Hello everyone, I am proud to release the latest version of GraphMethod, which has been totally rewritten to support a Graphic Module Plug-in architecture. So far I support PIL and GD. I also have an experimental implementation of PLPlot, which works but is not pretty yet, simply because the API is very complex and I do not know it well. I would love to receive improvements! Go to http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/GraphMethod (iuveno Demo Site) for more information and the download. Features: - Making normal and animated GIFs! - Graph Tools include flexible classes for Arrows, Vectors, Grids, X-Axis, Y-Axis, Coordinate System, Data Point, Function Curve and Random Value Curve. - Once a Coordinate System is setup, you can use its dimensions to put objects, like vectors or data points on it. - Since the image is rendered on the fly, you can use dynamic components. - Plug-in Architecture for different Graphing Libraries - 3 Plug-ins are provided: PIL, GD and PLPlot - There is a choice between various graphic formats, which usually include JPEG, PNG and GIF. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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Python Conference
by Joya Subudhi 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Python 10 Conference News Python 10 is just around the corner. Register today and save with EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION RATES. This early bird offer ends on January 7, 2002. To register, go to http://www.python10.org/p10-regInfo.html The Python 10 GROUP RATE at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center is only guaranteed until January 11, 2002. For information on room rates and reservation procedures, please go to http://www.python10.org/p10-hotelInformation.html Feature Presentation: Developers' Day opens with the "State of the Python Union" Address by Guido van Rossum Birds-of-a-Feather: Python 10 is now calling for your Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) submissions. To propose a BoF, please go to: http://www.python10.org/p10-callBoFs.html The Tenth International Python Conference, February 4 - 7, 2002 The Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia http://www.python10.org Silver Sponsor: Hostway Corporation: http://www.hostway.com Silver Sponsor: New Riders Publishing: http://www.newriders.com Exhibitor: Archaeopteryx Software: http://www.archaeopteryx.com

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