[Zope] FYI: Zope Weekly News

[Amos Latteier]

Hi,

Probably the top news this week is the release of an alpha of mod_pcgi
by Python big-wig Andrew Kuchling. His efforts will lead to much better
Zope/Apache integration in the future. Lots of other folks continued to
make other important contributions too.

* Andrew Kuchling announced an alpha version of mod_pcgi to allow Apache
to easily communicate with Zope via PCGI. 

  ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/amk/new/mod_pcgi.tgz
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005083.html

* Amos Latteier announced the availability of a Portal Toolkit Demo. The
demo describes the forthcoming Portal Toolkit and includes animated GIFs
to show it in action.
 
  http://www.zope.org/Products/PortalToolkit/Tour/
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005008.html

* Ross Lazarus announced an experimental Zope to static HTML external
method.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005060.html

* A few people discussed "recursive acquisition" or using acquisition to
create indirect paths to objects. This feature is confusing to some, but
Anthony Baxter explained how he finds it incredibly useful.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005156.html

* Zope Documentation Project contributor, Tom Deprez, announced a "Zope
Commercial", or site which describes how he uses Zope.

  http://www.master.cit.be/c8/default.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005131.html

* Anthony Baxter announced an alpha of Zope Dataminer, which is an
interesting looking system for dynamically constructing SQL queries via
URLs.

  http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/dmc-0.1.tgz
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005173.html

* Alex Rice first asked about searchable Zope documentation, then solved
the problem himself by setting up a Zope documentation search site.

  http://www.swcp.com/~alrice/zope/
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005190.html

* Rik Hoekstra announced the formation of a usergroup for Dutch speaking
Zope 
users called "Zope in the low countries".
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005231.html
  http://sw.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/cgi-bin/WebSite.exe/zopegroep

* A couple programming hints for preparing for Zope 2 were posted by DC
folks this week.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-June/000533.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-June/000530.html

-Amos

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