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Zope Weekly News for October 13, 1999

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October 14, 1999

Hi,

Yet another active week in Zopeland. The Zope community
continues to churn out great ideas and software at an incredible
rate. Its very exciting to watch existing Zope projects like
Squishdot mature and new projects like PythonMethods spring up.

* Ng Pheng Siong posted his additions to ZServer which allow it
to do SSL with the M2Crypto Python package. Very cool indeed!

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001803.html

http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/m2

* Bill Anderson updated his Knowledge Kit to version 1.6.3.
Knowledge Kit is a Zope Product for creating knowledge bases.

http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Products/KnowledgeKit

* Butch Landingin released Squishdot 0.3.0 Squishdot is a very
popular Zope Product for running Slashdot-like discussion sites.
Many cool Zope sites including Technocrat.net run Squishdot.

http://www.squishdot.org/
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011663.html

* Following up on his excellent ZODB work last week, this week
Ty Sarna posted a CompressedStorage class which can be layered over
another ZODB storage to provide pickle compression.

http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/CompressedStorage/Announcement

* The tireless Jeff Rush updated his Zope RPMS for Zope 2.0.1.
He also compiled the ZODBC database adapter for use with Solid
Technology’s commercial SQL database product (v2.3), under
Linux.

http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Zope/

http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Zope/Zope2.html#ZODBCDA

* Evan Simpson updated Python Methods to version 0.1.4

http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod

* Stuart Bishop released Logger 1.0.1 which allows you to write
to Zope’s log files from DTML. This can be quite useful for
debugging and error logging.

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

* Amos Latteier posted a XML-RPC How-To. This link immediately
showed up to www.scripting.com and www.xmlrpc.com.

http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/XML-RPC

* Jason M. Thaxter pointed out that Zope is mentioned in a Tim
O’Reilly piece.
http://xml.com/pub/1999/10/tokyo.html

* Jonathan Corbet and Roman Milner pointed out that
www.HireTechs.com has launched an auction site using Zope, though
they do not identify the site as Zope-powered.

http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cn_1SqbKbytaXmZi

* Chris McDonough pointed out that Python’s creator Guido van
Rossum mentions Zope as in his latest interview.

http://www.oreilly.com/frank/

* Andy Dustman released MySQLdb-0.1.1 which provides access to
MySQL from Zope.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/011978.html

* Chris McDonough mentioned that Linux.com has donated space for
a Zope ad. Lots of discussion ensued about what the ad should
say.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012037.html

* The indomitable Chris McDonough produced an interesting
comparison between Zope and MS SiteServer.

http://sharon.iqgroup.com/zopevssiteserver.html

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012115.html

* Brad Clements expressed interest in taking over NotMail
development. Go Brad!

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-October/001771.html