Zope News for January 1 - 15, 2006
‘There has been much talk about component architectures but only one true success: Unix pipes.’ - Rob Pike
It’s finally done - you are looking at the first posting of ‘ZoNe’ (sort of Zope Newsletter).
We scanned the items at planetzope.org and a few other more python related feeds and put the results down another pipe. Expect to see this every two weeks from now. We’d like to get your feedback and maybe a helping hand sometime in the future 
But now - lets jump right into the first 2 weeks of news in 2006.
From the Feeds
Tres Seaver reviews the current status of a number of the CMF 2.0 roadmap items, and asks for feedback from the community on how they fit into a near-term release of a beta for CMF 2.0. (Palladion Software: CMF 2.0 Release Update).
Philipp von Weitershausen states: ‘Move your code out of Products!, that will add a lot of sanity to the process of evolving Zope 2 code more into Zope 3 technology’ (Zope3 lab developers portal: Mata los productos!).
Rocky Burt writes about CMFonFive, a product that provides integration between CMF and Five, making it possible to write Five products - and thus enabling Zope 3 functionality - that run on CMF (CMF With Zope 3 on Zope 2 - ServerZen Software).
Jeff Shell starts a series of articles on the ‘Zope Component Architecture‘ (Griddle Noise: The Zope Component Architecture - Interfaces, Adaptation, and Duck Typing).
Jean-Marc Orliaguet begins his investigations on the AJAX topic at Zope3 lab developers portal: The ideal AJAX toolkit (I).
In a more distant corner of the Zope world Ian Bicking talks about what he would need for real work (more at: An Ideal Web Development Environment).
Btw, background info on the upcoming PyCon 2006 conference is available from the PyCon2006 - PythonInfo Wiki 
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Shane Hathaway explains the history of the monkey patch at Zope3 lab developers portal: How the monkey was born like so:
I think the ‘monkey patch’ term originated as follows. First it was ‘guerrilla patch’, referring to code that sneakily changes other code at runtime without any rules. In Zope 2, sometimes these patches engage in battle with each other. This term went around Zope Corporation for a while. People heard it as ‘gorilla patch’, though, since the two words sound very much alike, and the word gorilla is heard more often. So, when someone created a guerrilla patch very carefully and tried to avoid any battles, they tried to make it sound less forceful by calling it a monkey patch. The term stuck.
Releases
Zope related
- Zope2.9.0, ZODB3.6, zope3.2 and Five1.2 and Five 1.3.
With the new 6 month release schema these packages update almost at the same time. - Basket is a Zope 2 Product which allows you to use *other* Zope 2 products which are packaged as Python Eggs in your Zope installation. Rumors have it, that it will be included with the Zope core.
z3meld is a set of Zope 3 bindings for the meld3 XML/HTML templating system. It allows you to use meld3 templates within your Zope 3 application.- DirectoryStorage (1.1.17) is said to work with Zope3 now.
- zForum (1.0.2) is a new release of the - maybe - only zope based forum product
Python
Long awaited docutils0.4 and MoinMoin1.5.0 have been released.
Sprints, Conference News & Press Announcements
Snowsprint 2006- plone.org
between January 27th and February 4th 2006. hosted by Lovely Systems. Third year in a row the Snowsprint is back. Now stronger then ever, faster internet, fun, tutorials, experienced developers and of course cheese and meat!
PloneFounders to keynote Python Conference 2006 - plone.org
Zope Corporation ReleasesZope Version 3.2: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
FREDERICKSBURG, VA-(MARKET WIRE)-Jan 18, 2006 - Zope Corporation, publishers of Zope®, the leading Open Source Web application server announce the concurrent release and general availability today of Zope Version 3.2 and Version 2.9
Even more Links
- Zope.org - SettingUpAZope3Sandbox - Instructions for setting up a Zope 3 sandbox
- Zope.org - Zope3Proposals
plope - zopecast - Zopecast is a show recorded every so often by Chris McDonough and Tres Seaver with the aim of jawing about things in the Zope world
- Nuxeo Blogs: Python megaframeworks concept map - a map ( png, pdf) to try to clarify the dependencies between the so-called frameworks and “megaframeworks” and other Python packages.
- RailsHelpers - is a direct port of the Rails helper functions to Python.
Python Status Update - Guido van Rossum: “A rambling discourse touching on my new job, the prospects for PyCon, and what’s hot in python-dev.”
- What’s New in Python 2.5 - get a glimpse of python 2.5s new features
- Introduction to Jython - S5 presentation
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