Zope Weekly News for August 5, 1999

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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