Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:07:08 -0400
From: Amos Latteier Amos@digicool.com
To: “‘zope@zope.org'” <zope@zope.org>,
Subject: FYI: Zope Weekly News
Hello,
It’s been yet another jam packed week for Zope. There were
community advances in Zope development, documentation, and
advocacy. Keep up the good work Zopistas!
* Atlanta Linux Showcase was held this week and it included a
talk by Digital Creations’ Paul Everitt, and a Zope Birds of a
Feather session.
http://lwn.net/1999/features/ALS/
* There was lots of discussion about a Linux.com community ad
for Zope. Chris McDonough got things rolling and it snowballed from
there with many creative ideas. Then the conversation turned to the
merits of the name ‘Zope’ which many folks seem to think is
actually reasonable despite sounding somewhat silly.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012037.html
http://www.zope.org/Members/webmaven/zope-banner-1.gif
* Martijn Faassen announced XMLWidgets 0.2. This release
includes a number of demos which reveal that this is shaping up to
be a very powerful Zope product. Go Martijn!
http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/XMLWidgets
* Gerard Mulot announced a complete Zope application available
for downloading. It sounds like it could be a good source of Zope
examples.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012252.html
http://www.zope.org/Members/gerard/centaur/index_html
* Ian Clarke started a discussion about the future of Zope and
Zope clients. One could develop many types of Zope clients such as
Java applets, Mozilla XUL apps, or local apps coded in almost
anything which spoke to Zope over XML-RPC. Of course a full Zope
client would be a major undertaking and no one so far seems to be
seriously planning such a project.
* Pavlos Christoforou announced a How-To on storing information
outside the ZODB.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012374.html
* Zope veteran Martijn Pieters announced that he’ll be giving a
presentation on Zope at the Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG).
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012393.html
* Johan Carlsson announced a ZIE update and Offline editor
availability.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012400.html
* Evan Simpson announced SiteAccess v0.1.0 which now allows
virtual hosting.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012531.html
* Ty Sarna announced Tranalyzer 1.0, a utility for analyzing and
examining ZODB files. It includes the ability to watch transactions
being committed to the ZODB (think tail -f). Can Ty continue to
release yet another cool Zope tool *every* week? Tune in next week
to find out.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-October/000050.html
* The Zope Documentation Project continues to work tirelessly on
their ZBook project.
http://zdp.zope.org/ZBookStatus/
* David Kankiewicz and the ZQR team announced ZQR 0.8 If you
aren’t yet hip the ZQR (Zope Quick Reference) you should definitely
check it out.
http://www.zope.org/Members/ZQR
* Stuart Bishop posted a How-To which describes Zope argument
marshalling. Very useful!
http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes
* Lalo Martins released an experimental Banner Ad product.
http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder
See you next week.
-Amos
—
Amos Latteier amos@digicool.com
Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com