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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the zope-announce mailing list and the Zope.org site. It is published each Tuesday before noon(ish). Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * imeme.net is offering an exceptional, low-end Zope hosting package. Not only do you get Zope (with some nice Products), but they throw in email (supported by the also exceptional WorldPilot package, or any IMAP client) and a mailing list (managed by MailMan), lagniappe. Try free for two weeks. http://www.zope.org/Members/mindlace/imeme * ZopeBrasil has a new address. http://www.zopebrasil.cjb.net/ * Alexandre Ratti has translated the last two ZWN issues into French, and has posted them on the fledgling Zope-France site. Additional translations should appear here, as time permits. Thanks, Alexandre! http://www.zope-france.org/ressources/azh/ * James Orbin <jorbin33(a)hotmail.com> would like to set up (or would like to participate in) a Zope users group for Ohio. If you are interested, please write James, or see: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-March/000137.html New Products * Software Product: ListMate Table Generator, by "heiko.stoermer" "ListMate is a ZClass based product that allows zope users to easily define, create and administer table structures. Use it for intranet or internet presentation of all kinds of tabular data, such as delivery services, hardware lists, ip-adresses, contacts, addresses, ... It contains a complete administrative toolset so that handling and maintenance are very easy." http://www.zope.org/Members/heiko.stoermer/ListMate Updates * Software Product: GenericUserFolder (GUF), by Stuart Bishop GUF has been revved up to 1.2.2. This is strictly a bug-fix release, and deals with all reported bugs. GUF is a tool for rolling your own UserFolder (the object which authenticates users of a Zope server). http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/GenericUserFolder * Software Product: LDAP authentication adapter product, by "rossl" Version 0.98.3 has been released. This release includes changes proposed by LDAPUserFolder users, and is being called "non-urgent". If you intend to upgrade, please read the product page carefully. This product makes it possible to authenticate Zope users using an external LDAP database. http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter * Software Product: Wide String support for ZPublisher, by "htrd" The wstring package has been updated to v0.2. This package is actually a set of patches to Zope to make it support wide strings. This update works with Zope 2.1.6. http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring/ Zope.org items * How-To: Postmortem Debugging In Zope, by Chris McDonough This How-To provides a twist on Michel Pelletier's The Debugger Is Your Friend document. Using the postmortem feature of the pdb, you can examine the state of your server at the point where the last exception occurred. This can be very handy when you don't know why an exception is being thrown. http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/pm-debug * Tip: Zope and regular content via ProxyPass, by "bfordham" This tip describes how to serve the root of a site from a Zope server, but serve specific portions of the site via Apache. http://www.zope.org/Members/bfordham/docs/zope_and_others * News Item: New Zope.org feature: Author feedback, by "MikeP" Now you can send feedback to the author of any content on Zope.org. There is a link to this feature at the bottom of each appropriate page. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/feeback_news -- Mike Pelletier.

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Local File System bug fix: v0.9.3
by Jonothan Farr 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS This mainly fixes problems with the tree view. OK, so I slipped in a user-requested 'feature' there at the end. I'm just excited that people are actually starting to create their own custom views. - Fixed a bug in __getitem__ that broke the mapping protocol, i.e. localfs['subobject']. - Fixed a problem with tree tag items from separate localfs instances affecting each other's state. - Prevented exceptions in localfs tree rendering from crashing the management interface. - Added 'Display in Tree View' option to disable displaying LocalFS objects in the management tree. - Added LocalFile properties display_size and display_mtime which return formatted properties. The size and mtime attributes now return an integer and a DateTime object, respectively. This should make the LocalFile object more useful for creating custom directory views. --jfarr

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Unicode strings in ZPublisher
by Toby Dickenson 10 Apr '00

10 Apr '00

Ive uploaded an updated version of my patch to support... * Unicode strings in ZPublisher; unicode fields in forms * Unicode strings as object properties * Unicode strings that work well with dtml http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring I've been waiting to release this version for a while (waiting for zope 2.1.6, which fixed some relevent bugs), so it's reasonably stable. However I wouldn't use it for anything important before Python 1.6, when I will switch over to the built-in unicode type. I would be grateful for any feeback, Toby Dickenson tdickenson(a)geminidataloggers.com

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 04 Apr '00

04 Apr '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the zope-announce mailing list and the Zope.org site. It is published each Tuesday before noon. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * First Commercial Zope Tutorial, by "beehive" "beehive is pleased to announce a first: a series of inexpensive commercial Zope tutorials! Our first tutorial is availible today, in German. This tutorial will be availible in English within 2 to 3 weeks." The first tutorial (about ZClasses) is 62 pages long, and represents at least 3 months work on the part of beehive. http://www.zope.org/Members/beehive/1stcomtutorial_html * Zope site in Portuguese (br), by "Infotronic" "Infotronic has created a new site (ZopeBrasil) that will have Zope information in portuguese (br) language, and will lead the efforts to localization of Zope." "If you speak Portuguese, visit it!" http://www.zope.com/Members/ZopeBrasil * Portuguese Zope Mailing List, by "hramos" Another Portuguese resource! This appears to be a general-purpose zope mailing list, like zope(a)zope.org. To subscribe, send email to zope-pt-subscribe(a)egroups.com. http://www.zope.org/Members/hramos/PT_Zope_MailingList New Products * Software Product: jcForceAuth, by "jephte" "jcForceAuth forces users to authenticate, even if they view anonymous content. This is particularly suitable for an intranet." http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/jcForceAuth Updates * Zope.org material in PDF format, by "AlexR" AlexR has updated his PDF versions of the 158 How-Tos and 54 Tips contained on the Zope.org site. Handy for offline reference and printing. http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/ZopeDocs Zope.org items * How-To: View and print all code from methods in a folder or ZClass, by "jwashin" This How-To contains a code snippet (and instructions for use) which will find and display all the DTML source in a given ZClass. This can be useful when examining other people's ZClasses. http://www.zope.org/Members/jwashin/viewZClassMethods -- Mike Pelletier.

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new local file system release
by Jonothan Farr 04 Apr '00

04 Apr '00

I originally sent this announcement on Saturday, April 1. However, it was intercepted by the list admin because I made the mistake of trying to bcc the zope list as well. Don't make this mistake! Don't let it happen to you! ;) -----Original Message----- From: Jonothan Farr <jfarr(a)real.com> To: zope-announce(a)zope.org <zope-announce(a)zope.org> Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 2:24 PM Subject: new local file system release Greetings. Today I'm announcing not one but two new versions of the Local File System product. Although we'll call these the April Fool's Day releases, no they are not a joke. Version 0.1.8 adds simple file uploading. It also fixes a problem with Image and File objects by setting the modified time of the ZObjects correctly. This also enables browser caching to work correctly. Version 0.1.9 adds support for adding, editing, moving, copying, renaming, and deleting local files through the Zope management interface. This is all highly experimental and potentially dangerous. This is why I've chosen to release the two feature sets separately. You would have to be absolutely insane to run this version on a production server. Please note also that the license agreement specifically states that I am not responsible if you shoot yourself in the head with this thing. That being said, please feel free to try it out on your development/test servers and get back to me with any problems you may find. As always, please feel free to contact me at jfarr(a)real.com with any comments, questions, or bug reports about the Local File System product. The product is available at: http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS --jfarr

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new local file system release
by Jonothan Farr 01 Apr '00

01 Apr '00

Greetings. Today I'm announcing not one but two new versions of the Local File System product. Although we'll call these the April Fool's Day releases, no they are not a joke. Version 0.1.8 adds simple file uploading. It also fixes a problem with Image and File objects by setting the modified time of the ZObjects correctly. This also enables browser caching to work correctly. Version 0.1.9 adds support for adding, editing, moving, copying, renaming, and deleting local files through the Zope management interface. This is all highly experimental and potentially dangerous. This is why I've chosen to release the two feature sets separately. You would have to be absolutely insane to run this version on a production server. Please note also that the license agreement specifically states that I am not responsible if you shoot yourself in the head with this thing. That being said, please feel free to try it out on your development/test servers and get back to me with any problems you may find. As always, please feel free to contact me at jfarr(a)real.com with any comments, questions, or bug reports about the Local File System product. The product is available at: http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS --jfarr

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New Zope/Squishdot-powered site: MyCommuteStinks.com
by Chris Walters 30 Mar '00

30 Mar '00

http://www.mycommutestinks.com MyCommuteStinks.com is a virtual water cooler where you can share your stories, swap information, meet people, and shop for cool things - all related to that topic we all love to hate: commuting! Here you can post short articles, news items, announcements, etc. as well as hold threaded discussions about them. There are others out there who share your feelings. You will find them here. Check it out! Chris Walters walters(a)id.com

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First Commercial Zope Documentation
by Mark Pratt 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

hello, beehive is pleased to announce a first: a series of inexpensive commercial Zope tutorials! Our first tutorial is availible today, in German. This tutorial will be availible in English within 2 to 3 weeks. Each tutorial represents at least 3 months work for the author and the technical editor. Because Zope is undergoing rapid development, we doubt any documentation effort (commercial or community) will ever be able to cover, in real time, all new Zope platform features. Recognizing this predicament, beehive includes with its tutorial free updates for 1 year. Our first tutorial is 62 pages. ZClasses is its focus. The German edition is availible now. More info: http://www.beehive.de We anticipate being able to release new Zope tutorials on a monthly basis. Our second tutorial is currently being edited. Others are in the works. Each beehive tutorial costs 25 DM (when you reside outside of Germany). This, at the current exchange rate, is less than $ 12.50. warm regards, mark -------------------------------------------------------------- mark pratt (managing director) mark(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the zope-announce mailing list and the Zope.org site. The ZWN is changing days! The next ZWN will be published on Tuesday. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * ZEO will go Open Source ZEO, the commercial Zope scalability option from Digital Creations, will go Open Source. After a trial period in mid-April, it will be available to everyone by mid-May. ZEO (Zope Enterprise Option) turns Zope into a distributed transactional object system, allowing people to add processors, machines, and networks to scale their web applications. More information can be found on the ZEO Product page. http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO/ * Oracle 8i Setup file, by Chris Petrilli Chris has released his Oracle setup file. This file is used to create the Oracle library. It has been tested internally for a couple of weeks. See Chris's announcement for a caveat. http://www.zope.org/Members/petrilli/Oracle8i * Zope LATEX Math, by Bruno Vernier On his site, Bruno describes how to use LaTeX notation to render mathematical expressions directly from Zope. http://ess.vancouver.bc.ca/zope/math * Users Group - Ohio James Orbin <jorbin33(a)hotmail.com> would like to set up (or would like to participate in) a Zope users group for Ohio. If you are interested, please write James, or see: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-March/000137.html New Products * Software Product: L10NFolder, by "fog" The author writes, "This is a subclass of the standard folder with some added bonuses. The L10NFolder support localized properties and search paths." http://www.zope.org/Members/fog/l10nfolder Updates * Software Product: XML Document, by Amos Latteier XML Document has been updated to work with Zope 2.1.6. The latest release is 1.0a6. http://www.zope.org/Products/XMLDocument * Software Product: Zope MySQL Database Adapter, by "mordred" "mordred" has released an update to the MySQL Database Adapter, by Michel Pelletier (Portland). This release is 1.1.4, and fixes one bug: - Fixed a bug that caused Zope to fail on selecting aggregate functions such as 'select max(number) from table' * Software Product: ZWiki, by "simon" ZWiki is a Wiki web for Zope. Zope and Wiki are a good combination. Wiki assumes that, in general, users are trustworthy. Zope, with it's security and transaction history, makes it easy to trust users. ZWiki is a sort of anarchic collaborative authoring system. This version, 0.5, streamlines the default pages and UI, and disables the experimental catalog support. This release is intended to be immediately usable out of the box. http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki/ Zope.org items * How-To: Changing Base Classes for a ZClass, by "AlexR" When you create a ZClass, you are given an opportunity to chose which classes it will inherit from. Since ZClasses are often used for rapid prototyping, you will not always select the correct classes the first time. It is quite a lot of work to create a new set of classes with the correct bases and to move all the contents into them from the old classes. Armed with this How-To, you will be able to change the base classes of a ZClass in-place! http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/ChangingBaseClasses * How-To: Serve PHP/Perl within Zope, by "Mamey" "As you migrate your site to Zope, you may want to embed a previously created PHP or Perl directory tree within Zope. Or perhaps you found a nifty web application that is coded in PHP/Perl and want to serve it within your Zope site." This is a bit more advanced than simply rewriting certain URLs to be served by a different server. This How-To will actually allow you to embed the external content in dynamic Zope pages. http://www.zope.org/Members/Mamey/PHP -- Mike Pelletier.

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Jobs in Zope World
by FR Chalaoux 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

http://www.zope-france.org/ the best place to find a job in Zope World

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