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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Hi, It was a normal week for Zope: many software announcements, community expansion, and many other exciting developments. Here are some hilights. It's official now, there will be a Zope book from O'Reilly. It won't be out for a while. When it is released it will probably be available under an open content license. Performance improved on the Zope.org web site thanks to new hardware and improved cache settings. Many folks who have submitted Zope bug reports will be happy to see lots of fixes appearing in CVS. These fixes mark early preparations for a Zope 2.1 release. * The performance of the www.zope.org web site was improved this week due to smarter HTTP and ZODB cache settings and better hardware. There were a few short down times but it looks like smooth sailing form here on out. Hooray! http://www.zope.org/ * Mike Pelletier announced that he and Dan York of LinuxCare will be writing a Zope book for O'Reilly. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013229.html * A perennial discussion on the Zope list is porting Zope to Java. Using Servlets with Zope would be great and JPython makes this relatively easy, right? Wrong. Philip Eby gives a good description of why we're not likely to see JZope for a long time. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013353.html * Edd Dumbill announced SiteSummary 1.1 a Zope product for managing RSS data. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013100.html * OgilvyInteractive is looking for a Chinese speaking Zope programmer. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013175.html * Stephan Richter announced ZPickle 0.0.1 a Zope Product to provide pickling services. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013266.html * Oleg Broytmann announced a Russian Zope mailing list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012885.html * Jeff Rush announced that he has updated his Zope RPMs. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012967.html * Marc Gehling announced a German Zope Yahoo club. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012908.html * Ethan Fremen announced a Zope and CSS How-To. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013032.html * Luciano Ramalho announced that Brazil On-line has launched a Zope-based real time news service. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013031.html * Petru Paler announced ClickTracker a Zope Product to track user activity. http://www.zope.org/Members/ppetru/ClickTracker * Tom Deprez posted summarized Zope Documentation Project happening in his "ZDP Weekly NEWS" post to the zdp list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-October/001003.html * Amos Latteier made this slides for his talk "Extending Zope in Python" available. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/PORPIGSlides * Mike Pelletier released ZDiscussions 0.1.0 This is a Zope Product for threaded discussions. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/ZDiscussions See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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German Zope ML
by Sven Kirmess 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

I've created a German ML for Zope. The Address is: zope-de(a)onelist.com You can subscribe by sending a mail to the following address: mailto:zope-de-subscribe@onelist.com Sven -- PGP-Key-ID: 0x881BF222

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O'Reilly to publish Zope Book
by Michel Pelletier 02 Nov '99

02 Nov '99

Greetings, I'm pleased to announce that Dan York, the Linuxcare Certification Program Manager, and myself, have come to an agreement with O'Reilly and Associates to author a Zope book. The book will be published under a not-yet agreed upon Open Content license. This means that during the evolution of the book, you will be able to view and download the material for your own information needs. We hope that this also means you will kindly help point out mistakes or gaping holes in the material before it is printed by the publisher. One of our goals is that this book will benefit from the same community involvement that has made Zope such a great success. Since before I started working at Digital Creations, I've had a Zope book in mind. Of course, I wasn't the first to think of it; Paul and Hadar had in mind a 'Bobo Book' (Bobook?) for a while. My original material was called 'The Zen of Zope' and was defiantly high-fiber, developer oriented material. I met Dan York at the LinuxExpo this year. I gave him a tour through Zope and he showed me the kinds of things that Linuxcare was doing to support the linux community. When he found out I was working on a book, he was interested immediately in co-authoring it. Dan has published books with Que in the past, and is key in authoring training and certification materials for linux and linux courseware. Dan and I began working on a 'new' outline to present to publishers. When we started talking to publishers, we realized that our outline was much too complex, and that what Zope really needed was a gentle introductory book. Advanced or reference books may come later, but first there must be a simple, introductory book that will stand the test of time and multiple releases of Zope! This is where Paul stepped in, he helped take our outline and bring it down to the level that it needs to be at. I'm hoping that lots of community members will have a hand in the final product, even if their contribution is just a comment on the work. Comments will be strongly encouraged! There is no set title or release date for the book. It will not be any time soon, of course, and we will give everyone several months warning before publication time. O'Reilly cannot take advanced orders for books, so please don't contact them with your credit-card in hand, the people on the order lines won't even know what your talking about. ;) -Michel

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www.zope.org back, a bit late
by Ken Manheimer 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

www.zope.org is back, on a different machine and at a different address. The move took way longer than i intended, and some of you may have gotten into the system while it was in transition (between 11:00 and 12:00 am, EST), in which case you may *not* see some of your changes! I'm really sorry about the confusion and the delay - this turned out to be a more complicated transition than i expected. ALSO NOTE, those of you using caching servers may get to the wrong machine until the DNS time-to-live for the old record expires. If, when visiting http://www.zope.org, you get a page saying only "www2.zope.org", then try using another name for the site - http://yyy.zope.org . This will be moot when the dns records expire, later today, but in the meanwhile we know how much you'd miss your favorite haunt if you had to wait... Happy halloween, for those of you that practice it!-) Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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FYI: PORPIGgies meeting; Zope talk tonight
by Amos Latteier 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

Hi, Just a reminder that tonight at 7pm is the PORPIG (Portland, Oregon Python Interest Group) meeting. I'll be speaking about Zope, so if you're in Portland (or can get there by 7pm tonight ;-) this is your chance to ask Zope development questions in person. Plus there are free eats! -Amos P.S. For more info about PORPIGgies get in touch with Ray Price (ray(a)unival.com) Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- The next meeting is scheduled for November 1, 1999 and will feature Amos Latteier presenting "Extending Zope in Python" He'll cover the basic avenues for extending Zope in Python, including external methods, zclass base classes, and Python products. The bulk of the talk will be tutorial on building a simple Zope product in Python. He'll explain the basic Zope services that a Python product needs to be aware of: object publishing, persistence, security, and the management framework. The talk will include many examples. Refreshments are once again sponsored by Randall Burns. If you want to attend, you must subscribe to the PORPIG list at www.egroups.com. Building security will only admit list subscribers. Meeting time is 7pm to 9pm at the Benjamin Franklin Building, One SW Columbia, Portland Oregon.

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Reminder - brief zope site downtime Monday, ~10am EST (3pm GMT?)
by klm 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

Just a reminder that we'll be doing some maintenance on the www.zope.org zope site this morning - we're shifting the site to a machine with less other stuff going on, so we can really discern the effects of tuning, and generally to provide better service all around. I'll post a follow-up when everything's back online - it should be before 10:30. Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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Zope.org downtime monday, ~10:00 -> 11am EST
by Ken Manheimer 29 Oct '99

29 Oct '99

We're going to be doing some more reshuffling of zope.org, with a bit of downtime - around an hour, this monday, Nov 1, between 10am and 11am EST. We're hoping to increase all-around responsivness in the site as a result - we shall see! Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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MetaPublisher released
by Mark Pratt 29 Oct '99

29 Oct '99

hello all, beehive has just completed beta1 of MetaPublisher (little pumpkin release) we are currently very busy with several commercial project but wanted to give our fellow zope developers an early chance to check out our latest product. go to http://www.zope.de/software/MetaPublisher/ MetaPublisher is still very much an infant but we will be spending a lot of time to add new features and iron out bugs so feel free to email any suggestions, corrections, bug reports to zope(a)beehive.de *** a quick how-to: *** when you have created an instance select the "publisher" tab. select "configure" add as many different fields as you want go back to the main menu select "template renderer" admin_html is you administration menu index_html is your public view by the way, all field types are plug-ins! have a good weekend! regards, mark and all the other bees. -------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Russian mailing list for Python, Zope
by Oleg Broytmann 27 Oct '99

27 Oct '99

Hello! Russian-speaking Pythoneers, Zopers unite! I am trying to revive the mailing list for russian-speaking. I also want to add the Zope topic to the list. I am writing and debuggung simple web site based on Zope, and soon will provide read-only access to the managemenet interface for everyone who want to learn how to install, configure and run Zope application. Anyone interesting to talk about beloved Python language and Zope in Russian please subscribe: echo subscribe python | mail majordomo(a)list.glas.net It is stndard majordomo, all commands available, including "help". Our webpages are here: http://www.glasnet.ru/~jno/Python/ http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/motorola/668/ http://www.chat.ru/~pythonrus/ Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann National Research Surgery Centre http://sun.med.ru/~phd/ Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 27 Oct '99

27 Oct '99

Hi, As usual, the vast quantity of Zope activity this week is a bit overwhelming. One notable trend is the blossoming of not only community contributed Zope software, but community contributed Zope documentation. For example, there are currently 75 How-Tos on Zope.org! In addition, this week also saw several announcements for documentation on writing Python Products. * Jon Udell wrote an article entitled "XML-RPC Programming with Zope" for Zope for byte.com. http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991021S0014 * Python God Andrew M. Kuchling started a discussion about implementing XML-RPC Methods for Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001949.html * O'Reilly Editor-in-Chief Frank Willison announced that he has nothing to say about any rumored Zope book ;-) http://www.oreilly.com/frank/ * Butch Landingin released Squishdot 0.3.2 which is a bugfix release. http://squishdot.org/Download/Squishdot * Scott Roberts announced preliminary support for FastCGI. This package extends ZServer to allow it to speak to web servers that support FastCGI. This is similar to PCGI but more efficient. http://www.zope.org/Members/sroberts/fastcgi-support * Ross Lazarus announced an updated LDAP adapter Product. It acts like an acl_users folder but allows authentication from an LDAP server. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012662.html * Anthony Baxter released SQL Session v.0.1.1 which provides persistent session objects which are stored in a SQL database. http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012642.html * Ken Manheimer announced a How-To entitled "Debugging Zope Python Code" which, while incomplete, is full of juicy tips for Zope hackers. http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/debuggingzope * Garth Kidd released a How-To and an example Zope Product which illustrates extending Zope in Python. http://www.zope.org/Members/gtk/Boring/HowTo-Boring * Speaking of examples of Zope Products in Python, Jeff Rush also posted an example Python Product. http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Zope/ * Rounding out this week's Python Product announcements, Amos Latteier will give a talk on "Extending Zope in Python" at the Portland, Oregon Python Interest Group (PORPIGgies) meeting on November 1. http://www.egroups.com/group/porpig/4.html * Jonothan Farr released a Local File System Product. This allows you to create objects which provide controlled access to the local filesystem http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/LocalFS * Alexandre Ratti wrote a How-To which describes custom date formats. http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CustomDateFormats * Michel Pelletier announced a preliminary Portal Tool Kit model on the zope-dev list. The PTK may not be complete vaporware after all ;-) http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001908.html * Oleg Broytmann posted a patch to load_site.py which allows you to create more Zopish DTML Documents from imported HTML files. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001935.html * A.M. Kuchling released ODP 0.03 This is a Zope product which allows browsing of the Open Directory Project's RDF dumps. The ODP is the information which powers the search engine at http://dmoz.org/ http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/zope/ODP.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012622.html * Tim Wilson started a discussion of Zope and RDF which soon expanded to include syndication and RSS. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012721.html * Despite the Perl conspiracy ;-) Zope showed up on several times and in a positive light on another Slashdot thread. http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/10/16/166256.shtml * Amos Latteier posted to the ZDP list concerning a possible future turning over of the Zope Guides to the Zope community. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-October/000919.html Until next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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