[Zope-Annce] FYI: Zope Weekly News

[Amos Latteier]

Hello,

This week saw the launch of Bruce Perens's Technocrat.net. This is one
of the highest profile Zope sites to date. Butch Landingin's Squishdot
product for Zope is a big part of what makes the site tick. Way to go
Bruce and Butch!

Another major thread on the Zope lists this week was e-commerce. Scott
Robertson released a credit card processing product for Zope, and there
was a lot of discussion about existing Zope e-commerce packages and
where to go from here.

Finally, activity continues at a fairly intense rate in CVS as
preparations for beta two are made. And thanks to David Ascher, you can
now easily download snapshots of the Zope development tree.

  * Bruce Perens's new technology policy site, Technocrat.net made a big
splash this week. Bruce Perens is a major open source figure, and his
new site runs on Zope using the Squishdot product.  
  
  http://technocrat.net/
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/27/205246&mode=thread
  http://technocrat.net/932767939/

  * Zope showed up on Slashdot again in an Ask Slashdot article.
  
  http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/07/31/0323235.shtml
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007580.html
  
  * Scott Robertson announced a Cyber Cash Connector for Zope. This
allows you to conduct credit card transactions. A long discussion of
e-commerce and Zope followed on the zope-dev list.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007606.html

  * Chris Petrilli announced a Database Adapter status page.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Download/DAStatus
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007432.html
  
  * Paul Everitt posted a note showing the growth of interest in Zope as
evidenced by the number of hits on Zope.org and the number of
subscribers to the Zope mailing lists.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007456.html
  
  * Chris Petrilli announced the availability of slides used in a Zope
training.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007431.html
  http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/Training/Material/
  
  * Chris Petrilli posted a Database adapter roadmap.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/001013.html
  http://www.zope.org/Information/DARoadmap
  
  * Paul Everitt posted an announcement about Zope/Python activities at
the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Information/OReillyConferenceInfo
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007581.html

  * Michel Pelletier announced ZSybaseDA 1.0.1, a Database Adapter for
Sybase.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007637.html
  http://www.zope.org/Download/ZSybaseDA/
  
  * Steve Spicklemire announced Zieve, Z-subclassable class that assists
in sorting ZClasses in various ways.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007691.html
  
  * Brian Lloyd responded to a question about Pluggable Brains with an
informative post illuminating this powerful and under-documented
feature.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html
  
  * Python guru David Ascher set up a nightly CVS snapshot archive for a
couple major Python projects including Zope. This allows you to get
access to the latest sources from CVS without using CVS.
  
  http://starship.python.net/crew/da/zopedists/

  
Keep on Zopin!

-Amos  

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Amos Latteier         mailto:amos@digicool.com
Digital Creations     http://www.digicool.com