Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:18:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Pelletier
To: editors@linuxtoday.com
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.
Suggestions for ZWN items are happily accepted. Please mail them
to , put ‘ZWN’ somewhere in the subject and remember to include
URLs.
Announcements
* Zope 2.1.4 has been released. The blame goes to Evan Simpson,
who pointed out a problem which would allow people to construct
links to a Zope server such that it would cause JScript (or other
HTML-embeddable scripts) to be executed in the user’s browser. This
script would appear to come from the Zope server. While this is not
too terribly dangerous (your browser doesn’t have any security
holes, right?), all users are encouraged to upgrade.
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.4/Zope_214_release
New Releases
* “brianh” has been given custodianship of the Ultraseek DA
product. This is a Zope Database Adapter which provides an
interface to Infoseek’s Ultraseek Server search engine.
http://www.zope.org/Members/brianh/UltraseekDA
* “ngarcia” announced the first public release of the Wampum
Generator, a CyberCash Connector for Zope. This product gives
application developers the ability to process Internet credit card
transactions in Zope.
http://www.zope.org/Members/ngarcia/WampumGenerator
Updates
* Digital Creations has released an updated version of the
Sybase Database Adapter. It’s hoped that this release fixes the
memory leaks of the prior version.
http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/SybaseDA/
* “Drew” has updated the ZPhotoAlbum product. This product
presents pages of ZPhotos (images) scaled to the user-specified
thumbnail size. The present version is 0.4.3.
http://www.zope.org/Members/Drew/Photo/
* Jonothan Farr updated his LocalFS product. This product allows
Zope to serve files out of (shockingly enough) the local
filesystem. Additionally, it can serve from network shares if you
are running Zope on a Windows machine.
http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/LocalFS
Zope.org items
* Chris McDonough has crafted a gentle and easily digested
introduction to Zope he’s called, “Gain Zope Enlightenment By
Grokking Object Orientation”. If you are _not_ a computer
scientist, geek or Python programmer, this seems to be the place
for you to start. He does a wonderful job of answering a very
difficult question, “What is Zope?” At the end, the complete novice
should have a decent understanding of how Zope works, what an
object is and what it means to publish one, and how these objects
work.
http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/gainenlightenment
* “muesli” created a HowTo which explains the ‘domains’ security
feature of user objects. This allows you to restrict access to
specific hosts, domains, or IP addresses.
http://www.zope.org/Members/muesli/AuthByAddress
* “jec” posted a HowTo which explains automating the starting
and stopping (at startup and shutdown) of a Zope server on a Red
Hat system.
http://www.zope.org/Members/jec/startstop_howto_html
* “vernier” has written a HowTo on creating custom Zope Debian
packages.
http://www.zope.org/Members/vernier/debian
* “lalo” wrote a HowTo which describes how to use cron to
trigger events on a Zope server.
http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/cron
* Jens Vagelpohl has distilled the essence of his experience
creating the Zope Demo CD which was distributed at IPC8 and created
a HowTo so you can create one, too. These CDs work on both Windows
and Linux systems. On a Windows system, the Zope server can start
right off the CD, and a web browser can automatically be launched
to view the server’s content. All this without writing a single
byte to the user’s hard drive.
http://www.zope.org/Members/jens/docs/zope_on_cdrom
* Chris Petrilli posted a proposal titled “A Confidence
Mechanism in User Role Management”. The idea is to make Zope
Authentication more flexible than all-or-nothing. There is a
discussion about this proposal in the Zope-PTK mailing list.
http://www.zope.org/Members/petrilli/ConfidenceMetric
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-February/000169.html
Corrections
* Last week, the editor-in-chief of O’Reilly was mistakenly
called “Frank Wilson”. His name is in fact Frank Willison.
—
Mike Pelletier.
http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/cron