Hi, Amos. Here's what I've done so far. Only one mailing list done, and I'll have to go over the last 24 hours again tomorrow, but hey, for now on I can just compile it as I read my mail and it'll be easier. At any rate, I just want reasurance that I'm on the right track with style and content. I'm trying to highlight some of the more active or interesting discussion threads as well as announcements. Again, that will be easier when I can add items to my LWN as they come in instead of catching up the day before. ;-) Mike. -- G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have ocoured on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. XXX Zope 2.1b2 * Francois-Regis CHALAOUX posed a question about using Zope with virtual hosting. Several useful responses were generated. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013678.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013688.html * The discussion of DTML syntax goes on (and on and...). Light is cast on some of DTML's darker corners, and some trouble spots are highlighted. Paul Everitt writes in to say he is following the thread with great interest. He would like to see DTML improved and requests a summary by someone who has a handle on in. The request is repeated by many, but fulfilled by none. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013710.html * Darcy Clark alerts the list of Jon Udell's latest article mentioning Zope. Jon's article discusses the ease of using Zope with Windows databases, the pain of using it with Unix databases, ODBC, and the lack of a similar magic bullet for Unix. The thread then continues to discuss the merits of various free databases and using them with Zope. http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991104S0001 http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013711.html Also, Karl Fast does an excellent job of summerizing the thread, generating more sage comments. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013762.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013812.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013813.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013840.html * Ben Galbraith submited a comparison of Zope and Cold Fusion and solicited comments. Some of the usual suspects offer theirs. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013730.html * Otto Hammersmith started a thread about Zope and security. In it, he speaks of some of the security pitfalls that unsuspecting Zope users could experience. Brian Lloyd submits some solutions. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013779.html * Paul Everitt wrote in to remind people that there is a zope-dev@zope.org list for technical discussions. A brisk discussion developed to debate what constituted a technical discussion. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013796.html * Theodore Patrick launched a lengthy thread with questions about the effect of threading in Zope. A number of folks from Digital Creations provide answers. The discussion moves on with high volume and content to the topics of benchmarking and performance tuning Zope. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013808.html * Paul Everitt announces Sybase support in a joint press release. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013946.html http://www.digicool.com/News/Sybase * Jeffrey P Shell announces ZLDAP 1.0b1, an acl_users replacement. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013980.html http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/ZopeLDAP/ * Farzad Farid revives the uncacheable image thread. Because Acquisition can lead to different URLs being generated for images when viewed from various locations, it makes caching difficult and can generate excessive traffic. Others offer advice to solve his problem. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014021.html * Itamar Shtull-Trauring announces ZCache v0.2. ZCache is a Python Product which allows you to cache expensive methods, taking strain off your server. It also generates 'Last-Modified' headers, aiding browser and proxy caches. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014115.html http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/ZCache