Zope Weekly News, August 18, 1999

Hello,

A major thread this week has been documentation. Below
are two entries about the current process for addressing Zope
documentation needs. The ZDP community continues to volunteer their
efforts and talents to make Zope the best it can be. Digital
Creations will be announcing their efforts in the documentation
area, SOON.

* Brian Lloyd’s Zope article at Devshed has continued to
generate an interesting discussion about Zope.

http://www.devshed.com

* Paul Everitt posted a note concerning a poll pitting
AOLserver, Zope, Enhydra, and others.

http://www.LinuxDev.Net/
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008088.html

The mailing lists have been quite active, the documentation
discussion has spawn efforts from several directions.

* Bradford Hull experienced extreme frustration with the
available Zope documentation that started a lively discussion. Many
community members added their frustrations to the lists and
possible solutions.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008268.html

* Stephan Richter is gathering goal requirements for the Zope
Documentation Project.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000607.html

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000576.html

* Brian Lloyd answered an query about “pluggable brains” that
added some light to the possibilities of such “brains”.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html

* A.M. Kuchling released an alpha version of the product that
lets you browse through RDF dumps from the Open Directory
Project.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008215.html

* Alexander Staubo published a Guest Counter product whose class
instances can count the number of “guests” to a web site.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008244.html

* Phil Harris announced ZMySQLDA for Win32.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008166.html

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008165.html

* Paul Everitt shared his results with running Zope from a
CD-ROM.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008105.html

Until next week…

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Pamela Crosby

Technical Writer
mailto:pam@digicool.com
Digital Creations
http://www.digicool.com