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

• Hadar Pedhazur announced on the Zope mailing list that Digital Creations and Zope will have a presence at the Linux WorldExpo in February. This is thanks to Tucows.com graciously sharing their booth.

  http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016931.html

• Andrew M. Kuchling announced the release of version 0.05 of the Oedipus package. Oedipus is a Python package for creating and maintaining hierarchical trees of Web links. A prototype Zope product is included in the package that allows browsing through an Oedipus database.

  http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/python/oedipus/

• "tseaver" noticed an updated review of Zope by Linux Planet and passed along the link. This is the review that appeared about two weeks ago, with the same ultimate conclusions but with some reporting errors corrected and the "Response from Digital Creations."

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

New Products

• "johanc" submitted "XMLRPC Client for Internet Explorer 5". It has been released as a part of the Zope Internet Explorer project, which aims to build a rich interface to Zope around Internet Explorer 5.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE/xmlrpc_client

Updates

• "rossl" updated the LDAPAdapter Product. This product allows you to authenticate user against data stored on an LDAP server. The current version is 0.95.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter

Zope.org items

• "Bill" wrote a How-To, titled "Conditional SQL How-To available" which describes how to construct a ZSQLMethod with a dynamic query.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Documentation/ConditionalSQL

• "anthony" has composed a very good How-To, "Choosing to store data in SQL vs ZODB", which discusses the relative merits and drawbacks of using Zope's native database and using an external SQL database to store data.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/sql_vs_ZODB

• "gwachob" has contributed a beginner level How-To about DTML scripting, "Making Folder Directory Listings". In it, he describes the DTML needed to generate a dynamic list of certain kinds of objects in a folder.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/gwachob/directorylisting

Notable Discussions

• Nico Grubert is looking for ideas for fairly substantial (20-40 pages) tutorials. Suggestions so far: News site app with workflow, a shopping cart app, and methods for handling file uploads.

  http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016594.html

• Steve Jibson developed a large ZClass, and then needed to change the ZClass's base classes. Not wanting to have to rebuild his ZClass from scratch, he asked the list for alternatives. Several are offered.

  http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016627.html

-- Mike Pelletier.