Zope Weekly News for December 8, 1999

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 18:14:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Pelletier <mike@digicool.com>
To: editors@linuxtoday.com

G’day,

Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and
interesting events which have occurred in the Zope universe. It is
published each Wednesday evening.

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

New Products

* “faassen” released ZFormulator 0.1:

“ZFormulator is a product that can assist with the creation of
HTML forms, their validation and processing. The Zope user can
construct forms from within the Zope management interface.”

“Neat feature: eats its own dogfood (ZFormulator is built with
ZFormulator!)”

http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/ZFormulator

* “vladap” released MySQL User Folder. It allows you to store
user information in a MySQL database.

http://www.zope.org/Members/vladap/mysqlUserFolder

* “phd” has submitted an early development release of
mod_pcgi2(0.0.1). Presumably, this moves the wafer-thin C stub PCGI
employs into Apache’s process, eliminating the so-called fork
tax.

http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2/mod_pcgi2_v0.0.1

Announcements

* Digital Creations has partnered with Fast Engines to add
support for their FastServ product. FastServ provides advanced
load-balancing (even within a heterogenous server environment) and
works with industry standard web servers.

http://www.digicool.com/News/FastEngines

* Digital Creations has announced that an early 2000 Zope
release will include support for two open protocols heavily
supported by Microsoft: the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol.

http://www.digicool.com/News/integrate

* Another press release from DC: Jon Udell will be delivering a
keynote at the Zope Track of the 8th International Python
Convention.

http://www.digicool.com/News/Udell

* “TWilson” announced a special interest group on the subject of
Zope and educators. The group is still in it’s formative period, so
get involved now to help plan it’s future.

http://www.zope.org/Members/TWilson/Zope-edu

* Tom Deprez reported on the state of the Zope Documentation
Project.

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002524.html

* Eduardo Fernandez Corrales has a Spanish Zope portal and
mailing list.

http://zope.sistelnet.es/
http://zope.sistelnet.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hispazope

* Paul Everitt sent out a reminder that it’s time to register
for the Zope Track at the 8th International Python Conference.

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015052.html

Updates

* Zope 2.1.0 final has been released! This release includes many
bug fixes, speed improvements and new features.

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/

A log of everything that has changed is also available.

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/CHANGES.txt

Zope.org items

* Zope Resources is changing slightly. Zope Hosting Providers is
being replaced with a more general page, Zope Solution
Providers.

http://www.zope.org/Resources

* “Zen” submitted a pair of tips about Zope’s little-known
‘manage_debug’ method, which can provide profiling information and
information useful for debugging connection problems.

http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/tips/profiling

http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/tips/manage_debug

* “tseaver” reported a LinuxPlanet review of Zope. Kevin
Reichard (the reviewer) brings with him a fresh perspective as
someone coming from outside the “Zope community”. He gives Zope an
overall 4/5 rating and raises a number of concerns, some valid,
some perhaps less so. Kevin represents a demographic destined to
become the majority of Zope users (namely, those who view Zope as a
tool rather than as a way of life. 😉 ) and so his review deserves
careful consideration.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1319/1/

Notable Discussions

* Rodrigo posted a query about using Zope with SSL. The common
solution is to use Zope with Apache, IIS or Netscape Server to
provide a secure connection. David Kankiewicz cited an old post
about a product which gives ZServer the ability to establish SSL
connections!

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015061.html

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015063.html

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015065.html

—
Mike Pelletier.