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Reminder: Python Conference papers due soon!
by Guido van Rossum 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

The deadline for paper submissions for the next Python conference is nearing! Make sure that if you are considering submitting a paper, the program chair sees your paper by SEPTEMBER 30. Papers can be on any Python, JPython or Zope related subject. Papers will be reviewed and the best papers will be selected for presentation. You will hear about selection by October 22. For more information, see the official call for papers: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html ** We are planning a significant Zope presence at this conference! ** The conference will be held from January 24-27 in Alexandria, VA (just across the Potomac from DC). Make Python the first conference in the new millennium you visit! For more info, see the conference home page: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ Send all email questions about papers to: ipc8papers(a)cs.uchicago.edu --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) (And sorry for the broad spamming.)

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 16 Sep '99

16 Sep '99

Hello, The new Zope.org community portal site went live this week. http://www.zope.org/ Currently there are over 600 Members. The new site is focused on providing a framework for the Zope community to develop and share on-line resources. The new Zope.org site is running Zope 2 and makes heavy use of the Portal Toolkit, the Catalog and ZClasses. * Evan Simpson's Python Methods product which allows editing of Python methods through the web got a lot of attention this week. Version 0.1.1 was announced and lots of discussion ensued on the Zope and Zope-dev lists. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod * Dan York posted a note about having a Zope "Birds of a Feather" session at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009984.html * Andrew Kuchling asked about forming a Zope calendar SIG, and some interesting ideas were posted. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010016.html * Paul Everitt posted about a Bruce Perens interview in Upside that mentions Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010071.html http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=37d5a4590 * Chris McDonough announced a smbUserFolder product to allow Zope to authenticate users based on their Windows NT domain credentials. http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/smbUserFolder http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010116.html * Lots of discussion on various types of caching came up this week. Here are some highlights. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010346.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010372.html * Andy Dustman announced MySQLdb-0.1.0 which includes a patch for ZMySQLDA. http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010393.html * Ross Lazarus announced a LDAPAdapter product. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010416.html http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: new Zope.org goes live
by Amos Latteier 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

Digital Creations is pleased to announce the new Zope.org site. http://www.zope.org/ This site showcases Zope's advanced features, and provides a portal for Zope community members to share resources. * What's new about this site? The new site is focused on providing a framework for the Zope community to develop on-line Zope resources. Using Zope itself community members can experiment and create their own resources on Zope.org, much as Python hackers create their own content on the Python Starship site. To participate, you can create a membership for yourself which provides you with an area to create objects, and the ability to personalize the site. The new Zope.org site is running Zope 2 and makes heavy use of the Portal Toolkit, the Catalog and ZClasses. * What's Membership all about? Membership allows you to create an account on Zope.org. Then you can build and manage your own Zope objects. You can upload your contributed software, and author your own documents on-line. If you can't install Zope locally this is a great way to try it out. If you are a Zope guru an account allows you to share you information efficiently with the Zope community. Everything you create can be woven into the fabric of the site through the magic of the catalog. For example, the Zope How-To page is built from a search of all public Zope.org Member How-To's. Membership also allows you to find out about what's happened on the site since you last visited. For example you can search for all the New Item objects that have changed since you were last at the site. * Is the site useful if you don't want to be a Member? Yes, the main feature of the new site for non-members is searchability and access to member content. Wondering about DTML syntax, just type "getitem" into the search form and find the right pages of the DTML Guide, and any relevant user contributed How-Tos. * What's changed since the site went beta? Now the site has over 600 Members. Site is a lot more solid. We've implemented lots of small fixes and add a lot of content. * What should I do if I find something broken or have suggestions? Send them to webmaster(a)zope.org. We have lots of plans to improve the site further, and would like to hear your ideas too. Give the new site a whirl and have fun! -Amos P.S. The old Zope.org site is still available on port 8080. -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 09 Sep '99

09 Sep '99

Hi, Now that Zope 2.0 final is out, it's time to start trying to understand and put to use all the cool new stuff in Zope 2. The new Zope.org website, while still in beta, is starting to become a great source of information for Zope users. There are already 37 How-Tos on the site, all searchable. The new site will soon replace the existing Zope.org site. * Chris Petrilli updated the Oracle and ODBC Database Adapters. http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/DA/ZOracleDA http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/DA/ZODBCDA http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000031.html * Amos Latteier released Alpha 2 of XML Document http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/XMLDocument http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000028.html * Brian Lloyd posted an informative How-To on External Methods http://www.zope.org:18200/Documentation/How-To/ExternalMethods * Work continues on the new Zope.org site. Mike Pelletier has been hardening the cataloging and reviewing facilities and sprucing up the existing ZClasses. Amos Latteier posted a proposal for Topic objects to help with organizing and browsing content. Currently there are 537 Members of Zope.org! http://www.zope.org:18200 http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/Amos/TopicProposal * The 5th Berlin BBQ hosted by beehive happens Friday, September 17 at 16:00. Be there if you can make it to Berlin! http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/webman/berlinBBQ5 * The Portland Oregon Python Interest Group had it's first meeting on 9/6/1999. Amos Latteier gave a talk on Zope and XML. The slides are on-line. http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/Amos/XMLSlides/PORPIGgies * Evan Simpson released version 0.0.1 of his very cool Python Method Product. This product promises to allow safe Python programming through the web! http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/4am/pm0-0-1 * Andreas Kostyrka posted a fix for using Confera 1.3.1 with Zope 2.0 final. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009411.html * Zope t-shirts were discussed. It turns out that some already exist, and that the have a dangerous logo on the back. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009479.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009526.html * Janko Hauser posted about CIS (Community Information System) a very impressive looking Zope project. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009641.html http://www.bionode.com/cis/ * If you haven't already seen it, check out the ZDP's awesome Zope Quick Reference. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009899.html http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/ZQR/ See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: DAs updated (Oracle/ODBC)
by Christopher Petrilli 02 Sep '99

02 Sep '99

Gang, I've updated the Oracle and ODBC DA's to work with Zope2. They are available at: http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/ The Oracle DA is released and Level 3 (full multi-threading), whereas the ODBC DA is beta, and serialized. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Christopher Petrilli 01 Sep '99

01 Sep '99

Hi there! Filling in for Amos as he tries to get the new Zope site readied for public presentation! It's still in beta... Well, this has been the busiest week of all, or at least in a long long time, for Zope development. Not only was beta 6 released, but the final release of Zope 2 has finally been made! In celebration, we're going to continue working on documentation and resolving any outstanding issues! Other items of interest this past week: * First! Zope 2.0 is finally released and out of BETA! :-) Find all the gory details here: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0/ * Lots of new items (HOW-TOs, contributed software) on the new beta site. Take a look! http://www.zope.org:18200 * It was revealed that the <dtml-sendmail> tag doesn't participate in the transaction machinery http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008968.html * Juergen Specht started an interesting thread on data validation and the difficulty in even figuring out what an e-mail address is. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008982.html * Zope gets some good press in the TechWeb publication, which Paul shares with us all. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009011.html * Various people expressed the concerns with search sites crawling a dynamic site like Zope, but perhaps it's not an issue as is discussed in the thread. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009058.html * It's discovered that you can't use tree tags with SQL queries the way you might expect, but there are some solutions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009089.html * Evan Simpson reveals his first attempt at embedded Python code objects in the Zope database. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009107.html * John Udell provides some much welcome publicity on Zope as well: http://www.byte.com/column/threads/BYT19990824S0013 * A new version of the ZOracleDA was released, providing full thread-safety under Zope2. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009192.html * Beehive in Germany releases a product to help write products. Is that a meta-product? ;-) http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009225.html Zigning off for now, Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.0.0 final released
by Brian Lloyd 01 Sep '99

01 Sep '99

Hi all, We are happy to announce that at long last Zope 2.0.0 final has been released! Zope 2 is the result of a lot of hard work by both Digital Creations and the Zope community - thanks to all of you who have contributed bug reports, patches, feedback and good ideas to the effort. We feel that Zope 2 represents a great leap forward, and we hope you'll agree that the time spent has been worth it. Zope 2 includes: - A high performance, multithreaded publishing environment - ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database - Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications - Built in searching and indexing support with ZCatalog - WebDAV level 1 support - FTP support - Support for XML-RPC clients. - ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa, - Builtin XML support and DOM interfaces - Many other sundry big significant items, such as: o Look and feel improvements, o Tighter security, o Simpler creation of Python products. Zope 2.0 distributions are available on both the "official" Zope.org website at: http://www.zope.org/ as well as on the new Zope.org beta site at http://www.zope.org:18200. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: XML Document 1.0a2
by Amos Latteier 01 Sep '99

01 Sep '99

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the second alpha release of XML Document. It's available on the new Zope.org site: http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/XMLDocument XML Document allows you to use xml objects in the Zope environment. You can create xml documents in Zope and leverage Zope to format, query, and manipulate xml. This release fixes quite a few bugs including one that broke ZClasses. Also DOM support is much more complete. Have fun! -Amos

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ANNOUNCE: beehive releases mkproduct
by Mark Pratt 31 Aug '99

31 Aug '99

hello all, we have decided to open source mkproduct which together with skeletons can seriously reduce your time spent building zope products. mkproduct is used extensively at beehive to rapidly build prototypes. do check out our documentation availible in both german and english. get mkproduct at www.zope.de/software/mkproduct this is beehive's way of saying thanks to all the nice people in the zope community! regards, mark, basti, katrin, alex -------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ANNOUNCE: ZOracleDA v2.1.0 released
by Christopher Petrilli 30 Aug '99

30 Aug '99

I'm proud to announce the release of the new v2.1.0 instantiation of the ZOracleDA product. This provides two advantages over the previous release: * Integration with the Zope2 transaction machienery * Full thread safety (level 3 DA) In addition, we've tried to resolve all outstanding issues that we could reproduce. It includes the new release of DCOracle as well! Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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