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

• A Documentation Survey has been posted. This survey will help Digital Creations decide where to focus our efforts by allowing you to tell us what you think about Zope documentation.

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

• "efm" has made a set of RPM distributions of Zope 2.1.4.

  ftp://www.tummy.com/pub/tummy/RPMS/

• Maik R�der has posted an announcement regarding the Zope Documentation Project (ZDP). Among other things, the ZDP has a new site. It's a fantastic resource, and definitely worth checking out.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/roeder/zdp

New Products

• Software Product: NFG Navigation Product, submitted by "gyst"

  Another product which provides navigation widgets such as trees and maps.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/gyst/NFGnav

• Software Product: ZopeEDIT, submitted by "jimbag"

  This product allows you to edit DTML object from your Zope database in your favorite text editor. Maybe. Written in Python, so it just might work on your machine. This is not a Zope add-on, it runs on it's own.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/jimbag/ZopeEDIT

Updates

• Software Product: mod_pcgi2, submitted by "phd"

  The update to 1.0.2 adds new documentation. This is module allows Apache to communicate with long-running PCGI servers, such as Zope.

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

• Software Product: load_site.py with additional features, submitted by "Itamar"

  This is an enhancement to the load_site.py utility that comes with Zope. It can be used to fill a Zope database with content from a filesystem. This release, version 1.2, fixes all known bugs, has new features from the newest version of the original load_site.py, and runs in standalone mode, loading into a remote Zope server.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/load_site/load_site1.2

• Software Product: FSSession, submitted by "gaaros"

  FSSession allows you to store persistent, per-visitor information on your filesystem. This update, to 0.3.0, fixes a number of bugs and properly supports Zope transactions.

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

• Software Product: KM|Net News, submitted by Kevin Dangoor

  KM|New News is a weblog (news site) product, not unlike (but not identical to) Squishdot. This update is version 1.1.

  http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-March/000122.html http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/kmnn

Zope.org items

• How-To: Managing http/https URL Links, submitted by "rbickers"

  This How-To describes a clever method to generate links to objects which require different protocols (http or https). This allows you to use encryption only where needed, without using exclusively absolute links.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/http_https_ulinks

• How-To: How to view all inherited and acquired attributes and methods of an object, submitted by "dmost"

  This How-To is essentially an educational (or debugging) tool. Often it's difficult to figure out what methods an object has, or where those methods are coming from. This How-To provides an external method which lays it all out for you.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/dmost/ViewSelf

• How-To: User Defined Roles and Proxies, submitted by "lvogel"

  "This HOWTO is to give a brief explanation of what a user defined role is, why you would want to set one up, and how to go about creating one. I also briefly touch setting up a proxy on Zope objects."

  http://www.zope.org/Members/lvogel/proxy

• How-To: Change TinyTable values using DTML, submitted by "cguardia"

  "The TinyTable product is a good tool if you need simple table lookup functionality in your Zope apps. However, it's usefulness is limited by the fact that it doesn't support writing single values to the tables you create."

• How-To: RESPONSE.write with ZServer 2.1.4, submitted by "htrd"

  "Streaming output does not work in Zope 2.1.4, when using ZServer to serve HTTP. This is fixed with the following two files..."

  http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/RESPONSE.write/howto

-- Mike Pelletier.