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ANNOUNCE: Agenda for Python 9 and the Zope Track now online...
by Brian Lloyd 13 Feb '01

13 Feb '01

Hi all - The agenda for Python 9 (and the Zope Track) is now online: http://www1.python9.org/p9-agenda.html Note that online registration for Python 9 closes on Sunday, February 25, 2001. To register, please go to: http://www1.python9.org/p9-reginfo.html We hope to see you there! General information on Python 9 can be found at: http://www.python9.org/ Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations www.digicool.com

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CalendarFolder 1.0.0 Preview 1 released
by morten＠esol.no 13 Feb '01

13 Feb '01

CalendarFolder is a nifty utility for keeping track of events and todos. It is available at <url:http://www.zope.org/Members/morphex/CalendarFolder>. Cheers, Morten

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Zope Internationalization Project resuscitated
by ethan mindlace fremen 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

Zopatistas, The ZIP mailing list is back, and it's at zope.org! If you speak another language, and would like to see zope speak yours, join this list now! Thanks, -- ethan mindlace fremen zopatista community liason

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[Ann] DocFinder 0.1: ask Zope about its documentation
by Dieter Maurer 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

Recently, I have written several times: Look at the Zope source for documentation. Zope has quite good source documentation. However, as the Zope source is huge, this advice is not so easy to follow. Therefore, I made "DocFinder". This small product allows you to ask any object in your Zope system about its documentation: methods, roles, arguments, documentation strings. As even simple Zope objects expose hundreds of methods, I made the display a two level interactively explorable tree structure. The first level shows you the classes, the object is build from. Expanding a class will show you the class's attributes. I think, this product can help you in various ways: as a Zope programmer: * learn about the available methods and their arguments * learn about Zope's architecture and building blocks * check for security holes as a Zope maintainer * help you to bring interfaces and implementation in line * help you to straighten out some quirks in Zope's implementation * help you to improve Zope documentation * help you to detect potential security risks due to unprotected attributes More information and download at URL:http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/DocFinder.html

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ZIP.
by Pattreeya Tanisaro 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

Hi, anyone work with Zope Internalization Project? I would like to translate the web-site from German to English but still don't know how to start. How can I keep maintaining the format and tracking the language? Thanks. pattreeya.

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New product release - Haqa's Patch Kit
by Adrian Hungate 11 Feb '01

11 Feb '01

Haqa's Patch Kit http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/PatchKit <<-- Download it here This product contains a number of small patches to other products within Zope. This product patches Zope when it installs. As a general rule I would advise against installing this on a production server until you have tested it properly. I have used this patch on Zope versions 2.2.0, 2.2.2 and 2.3.0 and it has not killed them..... yet ..... You have been warned. Text File Converter This patch adds a "Text Convert" tab to 'DTML Method', 'DTML Document', and 'File' objects (It only appears for 'File' objects if the 'content_type' starts with "text/"). Its purpose is to allow you to convert an object containing text content to a DTML Document, DTML Method or ZStyleSheet - http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/ZStyleSheet (If it is installed). Files like StyleSheets (.css) text files (.txt) Server Parsed HTML (.shtml) and a host of other formats get created as File objects when you add them through xml-rpc, WebDAV, or FTP. Image File Converter This patch adds an "Image Convert" tab to 'File' objects (It only appears if the 'content_type' starts with "image/"). Its purpose is to allow you to convert an object containing image data to an 'Image' object so that you can take advantage of the facilities it provides (Auto adding 'WIDTH=""' and 'HEIGHT=""' to the IMG tag etc..). Web Import This patch adds a "Web Import" tab to 'Folder' objects. Its purpose is to allow you to import objects from other web sites without having to download to your local machine, and then upload to the Zope server. This, for instance, allows you to manage your Zope from a "Dumb" browser like a WebTV or similar (I don't know who would want to but...). Thanks go to Shane Hathaway for his Refresh Product which contained the patch logic I borrowed. It also more that halved my developement cycle time on this, and my ZStyleSheet products. Adrian 'Haqa' Hungate adrian(a)haqa.clara.net

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LocalFS updated for Zope 2.3.0
by Jonothan Farr 10 Feb '01

10 Feb '01

Finally! http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS Mainly this just fixes the problem with an AttributeError in bobobase_modification_time(). Several good patches were submitted by LocalFS users and for that I am grateful. I believe this was the best of the ones submitted, because the management interface shows the actual modification time of LocalFS objects in the ZODB, as I believe it should. Local files and directories still show their modification time from the local file system. Thanks for all the great patches! --jfarr

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Zope a finalist for Software Development "Jolt" Awards
by Larry O'Brien 08 Feb '01

08 Feb '01

Zope is a finalist for best software product of the year in the "Language and Development Environments" category of this year's Software Development Jolt Awards. Other finalists are JBuilder, Perl Builder, PHP, WebGain Studio, and Weblogic EJB Server. The Jolt Awards were launched in 1999 by yours truly when I was editor of Computer Language Magazine and were the first awards for the software development tools industry. Philippe Kahn (once head of Borland) said that the can of Jolt Cola embedded in a block of lucite is the only award that matters in the programming industry. Anyhow, I'm one of the judges, as are Scott Ambler (scott(a)ambysoft.com) Andy Barnhart (arbarnhart(a)aol.com) Hugh Bawtree (bawtree(a)sunwave.net) Andrew Binstock (alb(a)pacificdataworks.com) Dana Cline (dana(a)logicsmith.com) Gary Evans (gkevans(a)evanetics.com) Warren Keuffel (wkeuffel(a)acm.org) Chris Minnick (cminnick(a)minnickweb.com) Guy Scharf (guy(a)guyscharf.com) and Alan Zeichick (zeichick(a)acm.org) Let the lobbying begin!

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back in order
by ethan mindlace fremen 05 Feb '01

05 Feb '01

Zopatistas, The zope lists should be back in order. You should, indeed, be able to post all messages to @zope.org. Thanks for your help, -- ethan mindlace fremen Zopatista Community Liason

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Zope.org mailman lists migrated to new release, new host
by Ken Manheimer 03 Feb '01

03 Feb '01

While the old mail system on classic was hosed, a few of us at digital creations took the opportunity to migrate the mailman lists the new host and the new version of mailman. (Barry Warsaw, mr mailman, did the main work of transforming the lists, while ethan and i helped with data transfer, dns config, etc - "...hauling up the data on the xerox line..." (*)) This migration was way overdue, and was intended to happen in the near term, anyway. It should mean more reliable service, and reduce some of the awful headaches the list managers have had to endure, keeping the old system going and, particularly, dealing with the poorly filtered bounce messages. (I collected over 20,000 bounces over a period of a few months, as zope(a)zope.org admin, lucky me. The improved bounce handling in mailman 2.0 should reduce that number significantly - and it's no longer pointless to continue to improve it as we discover unhandled bounce formats...) We have yet to confirm that delivery works ok - but signs are good, as the system slogs through the backlog. For the short term, we're expecting more *sluggish* turnaround time, until we get the storage server migrated to a separate host, hopefully sometime in the next week or so. At that point, we expect improved performance, and reliability. We will see. Note that ethan updated the dns so 'lists.zope.org' is still the canonical host - and the zope.org MX record also is revised to point to the right place. 'http://lists.zope.org/mailman' and 'http://www.zope.org/mailman' should continue to be interchangable, with the latter being a redirect to the former. Upshot - the changes should be transparent. (We have yet to establish that the new mail host will relay collector and other classic.zope.org mail-using applications. We're working on it.) That's it for now. One way or another, this should be a big step forward for pending escape from painful legacy items - hooray! Ken klm(a)digicool.com (*) http://stevebriggs.superb.net/stanrogers/songs/wch-sng.html

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