[Zope] Zope Weekly News

[Mike Pelletier]

G'day,

    Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting
    events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the
    Zope.org site.  It is published each Wednesday evening.

    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
    chronicler exclusively.


Announcements

  * XML.com has published another Zope article by Amos Latteier,
    titled "Advanced XML Applications in Zope"

    http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/02/23/zope/index.html


New Products

  * Software Product: PMPSurvey, by "sleeper"

    This is another survey product.  It supports single and multiple
    answer questions.  It may easily be embedded within other web
    pages, and reportedly sports a nice management interface.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/sleeper/PMPSurvey


Updates

  * Software Product: FSSession, by "gaaros"

    This product can be used to maintain arbitrary per-visitor data
    (session data) without burdening your ZODB with excessive
    transactions.  It does this by storing the sessions on your
    filesystem.

    This update, 0.2.3, uses cPickle, which makes it faster and more
    flexible.  There are additional new features.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession

  * Software Product: BannerFolder, by "lalo"

    This product randomly displays one of it's contained ads or DTML
    Methods.  There are provisions for tracking click-thrus and for
    limiting the number of times an ad will display.

    The current version is 0.4.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder

  * Software Product: ZRadius, by "Zen"

    This is a Radius authenticator.  It can be used on it's own, or in
    Zope as a GenericUserFolder plug-in.  This is a bug-fix release,
    bringing the version to 1.1.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/ZRadius


Zope.org items

  * Zope Documentation Plan, by Amos Latteier

    Amos Latteier is soliciting feedback on his Zope Documentation
    Plan.  It describes the initiatives to improve the documentation
    situation which are underway at DC, their goals, and the
    assumptions they are based on.  If you would like to offer
    feedback, Amos is available at <amos@digicool.com>.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/Documentation/Plan

  * Tip: Using PythonMethods on FreeBSD, by "als"

    This tip points out that a module required by PythonMethods (new)
    is not enabled by default by FreeBSD's python port.  It describes
    the solution.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/als/tips/PythonMethod_FBSD

  * All Product Releases, by Martijn Pieters

    This page is designed to be used with wget, Go!Zilla, or some
    other web-sucking tool.  It contains links to every Product
    Release on the Zope site.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/mj/AllProds

  * How-To: Wizards Made Easy, by "jspisak"

    This document explains a few techniques which make it easy to
    create simple multiple-page forms, like Windows' Wizards.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jspisak/wizard_keys

--
Mike Pelletier.