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Zope 2.0.0b5 released...
by Jim Fulton 26 Aug '99

26 Aug '99

Zope 2.0.0 beta 6 is available at: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b6 This release has a number of minor bug fixes. -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.

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Zope article in Hungarian
by Arpad Kiss 26 Aug '99

26 Aug '99

Hi, In the September issue of the Hungarian Chip Magazine there is a Zope article written by me. This is the first part of my three part series. Arpad Kiss

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ANNOUNCE: ZCommerce Mailing List
by Nick Garcia 25 Aug '99

25 Aug '99

We've set up a mailing list strictly for the purposes of discussing E-Commerce solutions using Zope. We like to call it ZCommerce. Anyone who is interested in subscribing can either go to http://lists.codeit.com/mailman/listinfo/zcommerce to subscribe, or email zcommerce-request(a)codeit.com with 'subscribe' as the subject to be added to the list. To post to the list, email zcommerce(a)codeit.com. Any questions, inquiries, suggestions, flames, hate mail, mailbombs, etc... should be directed to support(a)codeit.com. Nick Garcia | ngarcia(a)codeit.com CodeIt Computing | http://codeit.com

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ANN: Redirector 1.0
by Alexander Staubo 23 Aug '99

23 Aug '99

Redirector is an experimental folder product for redirecting object requests. Any request to a subobject (whether it exists or not) in the folder is redirected to a designated target URL. A flexible mechanism for mapping specific URLs is also provided. For example, you might have an URL such as http://oldserver/foo (running Zope, of course) which you've moved to your brand new server http://newserver/bar (Zope not required). Once you have deleted or moved the foo folder or object out of the way, create a Redirector object called foo on the new server, set its Target property to http://newserver/bar, following which requests for http://oldserver/foo will then be redirected to http://newserver/bar. Given this, if a user then requests http://oldserver/foo/fnargh, the request will simply be redirected to http://newserver/bar/fnargh. The Redirector object also supports mapping rules: For example, if the old server had a subobject called "milk", which now exists on the new server under the name of "honey", then you can create a mapping which simply maps the old object to the new object. Mappings support (or rather, require) regular expressions to be used, so you could also map any object starting with the letter M to a specific object, for example. (Support for regular expression groups are planned.) Added bonus feature: If you set the Redirector to "hard mapping" mode, it will fall back to the default target URL if none of the mappings match the requested URL. That means -- if you're like me, converting a dull old Netscape server to a new Zope site with lots of magic fairy dust added -- that you can create mappings for all the old documents that should be redirected to their Zopefied counterpart URLs, but for all the documents that are deprecated on the new server, the redirection will be set to the server's root folder. Thie product is experimental only in the sense that it has not been extensively tested. Please report bugs, problems, or inconsistencies to me. http://www.mop.no/~alex/download/redirector-1.0.tgz -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "QED?" said Russell. "It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, 'So there you bastard'." --Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_

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Zope 2.0.0b5 released...
by Brian Lloyd 20 Aug '99

20 Aug '99

Hi all. Zope 2.0.0 beta 5 is now available on both zope.org and the zope.org beta site. This release addresses quite a few issues, including all of the known must-fix bugs - details can be found in the CHANGES.txt online or in the distribution. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Pam Crosby 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Hello, A major thread this week has been documentation. Below are two entries about the current process for addressing Zope documentation needs. The ZDP community continues to volunteer their efforts and talents to make Zope the best it can be. Digital Creations will be announcing their efforts in the documentation area, SOON. * Brian Lloyd's Zope article at Devshed has continued to generate an interesting discussion about Zope. http://www.devshed.com * Paul Everitt posted a note concerning a poll pitting AOLserver, Zope, Enhydra, and others. http://www.LinuxDev.Net/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008088.html The mailing lists have been quite active, the documentation discussion has spawn efforts from several directions. * Bradford Hull experienced extreme frustration with the available Zope documentation that started a lively discussion. Many community members added their frustrations to the lists and possible solutions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008268.html * Stephan Richter is gathering goal requirements for the Zope Documentation Project. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000607.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000576.html * Brian Lloyd answered an query about "pluggable brains" that added some light to the possibilities of such "brains". http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html * A.M. Kuchling released an alpha version of the product that lets you browse through RDF dumps from the Open Directory Project. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008215.html * Alexander Staubo published a Guest Counter product whose class instances can count the number of "guests" to a web site. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008244.html * Phil Harris announced ZMySQLDA for Win32. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008166.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008165.html * Paul Everitt shared his results with running Zope from a CD-ROM. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008105.html Until next week... _______________________________________________ Pamela Crosby Technical Writer mailto:pam@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANN: Zope.org beta release
by Amos Latteier 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Hello, Digital Creations is pleased to announce the pubic availability of the new Zope.org site. This site is currently in *beta*; it mostly works, but it not yet complete. Eventually it will replace the current Zope.org site. http://www.zope.org:18200/ * 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, many pages are built from Catalog searches of member objects. 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 How-To 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. * Why is the site considered 'beta'? Because Zope 2 itself is still in beta, and because we have not moved enough content to the new site. There may even be a bug or two left ;-) * What should I do if I find something broken, or have suggestions? Send them to info(a)digicool.com. Please realize that this site is not yet complete. We have lots of plans for it, and would like to hear your ideas too. Give the new site a whirl and have fun! -Amos P.S. In keeping with a great tradition, I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so I cannot guarantee that your problems and suggestions for the site will be acted upon immediately. Thanks for your understanding. -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Announce: Portland Oregon user group meeting
by ray＠unival.com 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

The first meeting of the Portland, Oregon area Python interest group (PORPIGgies?) will be held Tuesday September 7, 1999 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm in the Benjamin Franklin Building, downtown Portland. The inaugural speaker will be Amos Latteier of Digital Creations speaking on "Zope and XML". He'll discuss the Zope application server and it's web object system from the perspective of XML. * DOM interface to standard Zope objects. * Using XSL as an object query language. * The XML Document Zope product, and how it exposes XML data to Zope. * Cataloging XML data. * Where XML and Zope are going. The discussion will cover some basics about Zope's object system, but will focus on its integration with XML. Even if you don't know Zope, if you have some idea of what XML is, you should be OK. The initial goals of the group are to meet the first Tuesday of each month, and have a fairly technically oriented meeting. The meeting format will consist of one or two technical presentations each followed by Q&A. Socialization will be encouraged after the presentations at a local pub. Admission is free. The entrance to the Benjamin Franklin Building is located on the corner of SW 1st Ave and SW Columbia Street in Portland. The building entrance is monitored by a security guard so it is very important that you RSVP so you can be listed at the security desk. I'll be in the lobby to greet visitors before 7:00, after that the guard will check the entrance every 5 to 10 minutes. So, please try to be here before 7:00 The address of the building is 1 SW Columbia Ave, Portland, OR 97258 Street parking is free after 6:00pm, or there is a parking structure at SW 1st and Jefferson. Please RSVP by email to Ray(a)unival.com Ray Price

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ANN: Guest Counter 1.1
by Alexander Staubo 16 Aug '99

16 Aug '99

Guest Counter is a very simple product whose class instances can count the number of "guests" to a web site. It counts users using any kind of ID you want, although it makes most sense to use a user's IP address. Since HTTP is a stateless protocol, visitors cannot be precisely tracked, and so the counter continually times out registered IDs in order to approximate the current bulk of visitors. A simple mechanism for piecing together "graphical" counters using GIFs or whatever you want is also provided. Installation instructions: Unzip/tar in Zope root folder, then restart Zope. The new meta type "Guest Counter" should be now available for adding to folders. (I made a small blooper that meant that each count incurred a transaction in the Zope OFS. This has been fixed.) http://www.mop.no/~alex/download/guestcounter-1.1.tar.gz -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "QED?" said Russell. "It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, 'So there you bastard'." --Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

Hi, It's a busy time for Zope development. This week Zope 2 beta releases 2, 3, and 4 came out in quick succession. Zope 2 is in a feature freeze and all development effort is focused on finding and fixing bugs. * Zope 2.0 beta 4 was released. This release fixes quite a few bugs. http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b4 * Martijn Pieters posted a good tip on how to perform access control based on user domains. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007769.html * People love to discuss DTML syntax. Most people like the new syntax, though some folks would like to see minor changes. It was revealed that the syntax will probably not change, but that there may be another fully xml-compliant syntax in the future. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007812.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007931.html * Jonathan Corbet mentioned that a new Linux-oriented Zope-powered site has appeared. http://www.openclassroom.org http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007817.html * Amos Latteier explained how to manually control the Zope ORB's object traversal process. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007825.html * Steve Spicklemire announced a beta 2 release of his Zieve Zope product. http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/Zieve.tgz http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007876.html * Kevin Dangoor announced KM|net News Product. This package provides a fairly advanced a news system including syndication and voting. http://www.kendermedia.com/kmnn.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007955.html -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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