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.

Announcements

• XML.com has published another Zope article by Amos Latteier, titled "Advanced XML Applications in Zope"

  http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/02/23/zope/index.html

New Products

• Software Product: PMPSurvey, by "sleeper"

  This is another survey product. It supports single and multiple answer questions. It may easily be embedded within other web pages, and reportedly sports a nice management interface.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/sleeper/PMPSurvey

Updates

• Software Product: FSSession, by "gaaros"

  This product can be used to maintain arbitrary per-visitor data (session data) without burdening your ZODB with excessive transactions. It does this by storing the sessions on your filesystem.

  This update, 0.2.3, uses cPickle, which makes it faster and more flexible. There are additional new features.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession

• Software Product: BannerFolder, by "lalo"

  This product randomly displays one of it's contained ads or DTML Methods. There are provisions for tracking click-thrus and for limiting the number of times an ad will display.

  The current version is 0.4.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder

• Software Product: ZRadius, by "Zen"

  This is a Radius authenticator. It can be used on it's own, or in Zope as a GenericUserFolder plug-in. This is a bug-fix release, bringing the version to 1.1.

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

Zope.org items

• Zope Documentation Plan, by Amos Latteier

  Amos Latteier is soliciting feedback on his Zope Documentation Plan. It describes the initiatives to improve the documentation situation which are underway at DC, their goals, and the assumptions they are based on. If you would like to offer feedback, Amos is available at [email protected] .

  http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/Documentation/Plan

• Tip: Using PythonMethods on FreeBSD, by "als"

  This tip points out that a module required by PythonMethods (new) is not enabled by default by FreeBSD's python port. It describes the solution.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/als/tips/PythonMethod_FBSD

• All Product Releases, by Martijn Pieters

  This page is designed to be used with wget, Go!Zilla, or some other web-sucking tool. It contains links to every Product Release on the Zope site.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/mj/AllProds

• How-To: Wizards Made Easy, by "jspisak"

  This document explains a few techniques which make it easy to create simple multiple-page forms, like Windows' Wizards.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/jspisak/wizard_keys

-- Mike Pelletier.