[Zope] FYI: Zope Weekly News

[Amos Latteier]

Hi, 

As usual, the vast quantity of Zope activity this week is a bit
overwhelming.

One notable trend is the blossoming of not only community contributed
Zope software, but community contributed Zope documentation. For
example, there are currently 75 How-Tos on Zope.org! In addition, this
week also saw several announcements for documentation on writing Python
Products.

  * Jon Udell wrote an article entitled "XML-RPC Programming with Zope"
for Zope for byte.com.

  http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991021S0014

  * Python God Andrew M. Kuchling started a discussion about
implementing XML-RPC Methods for Zope.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001949.html  

  * O'Reilly Editor-in-Chief Frank Willison announced that he has
nothing to say about any rumored Zope book ;-) 
  
  http://www.oreilly.com/frank/

  * Butch Landingin released Squishdot 0.3.2 which is a bugfix release.
  
  http://squishdot.org/Download/Squishdot
  
  * Scott Roberts announced preliminary support for FastCGI. This
package extends ZServer to allow it to speak to web servers that support
FastCGI. This is similar to PCGI but more efficient.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Members/sroberts/fastcgi-support
 
  * Ross Lazarus announced an updated LDAP adapter Product. It acts like
an acl_users folder but allows authentication from an LDAP server.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012662.html
 
  * Anthony Baxter released SQL Session v.0.1.1 which provides
persistent session objects which are stored in a SQL database.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012642.html
  
  * Ken Manheimer announced a How-To entitled "Debugging Zope Python
Code" which, while incomplete, is full of juicy tips for Zope hackers.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/debuggingzope
  
  * Garth Kidd released a How-To and an example Zope Product which
illustrates extending Zope in Python.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Members/gtk/Boring/HowTo-Boring
  
  * Speaking of examples of Zope Products in Python, Jeff Rush also
posted an example Python Product.
  
  http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Zope/
  
  * Rounding out this week's Python Product announcements, Amos Latteier
will give a talk on "Extending Zope in Python" at the Portland, Oregon
Python Interest Group (PORPIGgies) meeting on November 1.
  
  http://www.egroups.com/group/porpig/4.html
  
  * Jonothan Farr released a Local File System Product. This allows you
to create objects which provide controlled access to the local
filesystem
  
  http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/LocalFS
  
  * Alexandre Ratti wrote a How-To which describes custom date formats.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CustomDateFormats
  
  * Michel Pelletier announced a preliminary Portal Tool Kit model on
the zope-dev list. The PTK may not be complete vaporware after all ;-)
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001908.html
  
  * Oleg Broytmann posted a patch to load_site.py which allows you to
create more Zopish DTML Documents from imported HTML files.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001935.html
  
  * A.M. Kuchling released ODP 0.03 This is a Zope product which allows
browsing of the Open Directory Project's RDF dumps. The ODP is the
information which powers the search engine at http://dmoz.org/
  
  http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/zope/ODP.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012622.html
  
  * Tim Wilson started a discussion of Zope and RDF which soon expanded
to include syndication and RSS.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012721.html
  
  * Despite the Perl conspiracy ;-) Zope showed up on several times and
in a positive light on another Slashdot thread.
  
  http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/10/16/166256.shtml
  
  * Amos Latteier posted to the ZDP list concerning a possible future
turning over of the Zope Guides to the Zope community.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-October/000919.html
  

Until next week.

-Amos

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