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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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Local File System product
by Jonothan Farr 26 Oct '99

26 Oct '99

I've created a product called Local File System which allows you to mount directories from the local file system in your Zope server and serve the files as regular Zope objects. It also allows browsing directory contents. This is currently a development release so I wouldn't recommend installing it on a production server. Anyone interested in this sort of thing please give it a try and let me know what you think. It's available at http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/LocalFS Thanks, -jfarr

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ANN: New Squishdot bug fix release
by Squishdot 26 Oct '99

26 Oct '99

Hi all, I'm releasing a bugfix release (0.3.1) for Squishdot that fixes the bugs that have been found with version 0.3.0. More details are available at the Squishdot site at http://squishdot.org Regards, Butch ===== Butch Landingin Squishdot maintainer http://squishdot.org squishdot(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 20 Oct '99

20 Oct '99

Hello, It's been yet another jam packed week for Zope. There were community advances in Zope development, documentation, and advocacy. Keep up the good work Zopistas! * Atlanta Linux Showcase was held this week and it included a talk by Digital Creations' Paul Everitt, and a Zope Birds of a Feather session. http://lwn.net/1999/features/ALS/ * There was lots of discussion about a Linux.com community ad for Zope. Chris McDonough got things rolling and it snowballed from there with many creative ideas. Then the conversation turned to the merits of the name 'Zope' which many folks seem to think is actually reasonable despite sounding somewhat silly. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012037.html http://www.zope.org/Members/webmaven/zope-banner-1.gif * Martijn Faassen announced XMLWidgets 0.2. This release includes a number of demos which reveal that this is shaping up to be a very powerful Zope product. Go Martijn! http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/XMLWidgets * Gerard Mulot announced a complete Zope application available for downloading. It sounds like it could be a good source of Zope examples. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012252.html http://www.zope.org/Members/gerard/centaur/index_html * Ian Clarke started a discussion about the future of Zope and Zope clients. One could develop many types of Zope clients such as Java applets, Mozilla XUL apps, or local apps coded in almost anything which spoke to Zope over XML-RPC. Of course a full Zope client would be a major undertaking and no one so far seems to be seriously planning such a project. * Pavlos Christoforou announced a How-To on storing information outside the ZODB. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012374.html * Zope veteran Martijn Pieters announced that he'll be giving a presentation on Zope at the Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG). http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012393.html * Johan Carlsson announced a ZIE update and Offline editor availability. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012400.html * Evan Simpson announced SiteAccess v0.1.0 which now allows virtual hosting. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012531.html * Ty Sarna announced Tranalyzer 1.0, a utility for analyzing and examining ZODB files. It includes the ability to watch transactions being committed to the ZODB (think tail -f). Can Ty continue to release yet another cool Zope tool *every* week? Tune in next week to find out. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-October/000050.html * The Zope Documentation Project continues to work tirelessly on their ZBook project. http://zdp.zope.org/ZBookStatus/ * David Kankiewicz and the ZQR team announced ZQR 0.8 If you aren't yet hip the ZQR (Zope Quick Reference) you should definitely check it out. http://www.zope.org/Members/ZQR * Stuart Bishop posted a How-To which describes Zope argument marshalling. Very useful! http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes * Lalo Martins released an experimental Banner Ad product. http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope Presentation at NLUUG Conference (Dutch)
by Martijn Pieters 18 Oct '99

18 Oct '99

I'll be giving a technical introduction to Zope at the upcoming autumn conference of the Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG). The conference, entitled "Linux and Open Source for professional use" will be held in Ede, The Netherlands, on November the 4th. Other speakers include John K. Hubbard (The FreeBSD Project) and Colin Tenwick (VP and General Manager of Red Hat Europe). More information can be found at the conference website (Dutch): http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj99/ -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------

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ANNOUNCE: The Tranalyzer 1.0 Released
by tsarna＠endicor.com 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

As part of my effort to make an appearence in every issue of the Zope Weekly News ;-), I'm pleased to announce the release of The Tranalyzer: http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/Tranalyzer The Tranalyzer is a tool to parse ZODB3 .fs-type databases and print information about the transactions in in human-readable form. Special features include the ability to seek to a given file position and start printing the first transaction at or after that point, and the ability to work with live .fs files, printing new transactions as they are appended (think tail -f)

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 13 Oct '99

13 Oct '99

Hi, Yet another active week in Zopeland. The Zope community continues to churn out great ideas and software at an incredible rate. Its very exciting to watch existing Zope projects like Squishdot mature and new projects like PythonMethods spring up. * Ng Pheng Siong posted his additions to ZServer which allow it to do SSL with the M2Crypto Python package. Very cool indeed! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001803.html http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/m2 * Bill Anderson updated his Knowledge Kit to version 1.6.3. Knowledge Kit is a Zope Product for creating knowledge bases. http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Products/KnowledgeKit * Butch Landingin released Squishdot 0.3.0 Squishdot is a very popular Zope Product for running Slashdot-like discussion sites. Many cool Zope sites including Technocrat.net run Squishdot. http://www.squishdot.org/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011663.html * Following up on his excellent ZODB work last week, this week Ty Sarna posted a CompressedStorage class which can be layered over another ZODB storage to provide pickle compression. http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/CompressedStorage/Announcement * The tireless Jeff Rush updated his Zope RPMS for Zope 2.0.1. He also compiled the ZODBC database adapter for use with Solid Technology's commercial SQL database product (v2.3), under Linux. http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Zope/ http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Zope/Zope2.html#ZODBCDA * Evan Simpson updated Python Methods to version 0.1.4 http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod * Stuart Bishop released Logger 1.0.1 which allows you to write to Zope's log files from DTML. This can be quite useful for debugging and error logging. http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/Logger * Amos Latteier posted a XML-RPC How-To. This link immediately showed up to www.scripting.com and www.xmlrpc.com. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/XML-RPC * Jason M. Thaxter pointed out that Zope is mentioned in a Tim O'Reilly piece. http://xml.com/pub/1999/10/tokyo.html * Jonathan Corbet and Roman Milner pointed out that www.HireTechs.com has launched an auction site using Zope, though they do not identify the site as Zope-powered. http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cn_1SqbKbytaXmZi * Chris McDonough pointed out that Python's creator Guido van Rossum mentions Zope as in his latest interview. http://www.oreilly.com/frank/ * Andy Dustman released MySQLdb-0.1.1 which provides access to MySQL from Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011978.html * Chris McDonough mentioned that Linux.com has donated space for a Zope ad. Lots of discussion ensued about what the ad should say. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012037.html * The indomitable Chris McDonough produced an interesting comparison between Zope and MS SiteServer. http://sharon.iqgroup.com/zopevssiteserver.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012115.html * Brad Clements expressed interest in taking over NotMail development. Go Brad! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001771.html As always this summary cannot do justice to all the frenetic Zope activity, but it can perhaps highlight a few interesting items you may have missed. See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: CompressedStorage
by Ty Sarna 11 Oct '99

11 Oct '99

ANNOUNCE: CompressedStorage http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/CompressedStorage This is an experimental storage that layers over another storage, compressing objects larger than a certain threshold (default 2K). You will need to know how to use custom_zodb to play with this. Since it is experimental, don't blame me (but do tell me!) if this turns your ZODB into mincemeat. Thanks to Jim Fulton for suggestions on how best to implement this.

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Zope.org maintenance - reboots today between 6:30 and 7:30 PM EST
by Ken Manheimer 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

We're finishing up some maintenance on zope.org, and will have to do some reboots *this evening*, between 6:30 and 7:30 PM EST (3:30 and 4:30 PM PST). Sorry about the short lead time... Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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KnowledgeKit moves to v1.6
by Bill Anderson 08 Oct '99

08 Oct '99

Well, after some reworking, I have released a new version of the KnowledgeKit Product. I felt the change was worthy of incrementing to 1.6 as there have been a lot of internal rewrites that were never released. Much has changed, IMO it is for the better.Now it is usable out of the box. Be sure to check the Release Information for details on the new system. Note, I just got this turned out, so there _may_ be a few undocumented features at this point (in fact, I am sure there are), and even a wee bug or two (maybe?). Let me know of there are any bugs, I'll squash em. Bill Anderson -- "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan

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