Planet Zope blog

“The best way to predict the future… is to predict the future” - Arthur Siegel (PyGeo)

Christian Theune is trying to find out why nobody seems motivated to fix bugs ([Zope3-dev] The bug fixing problem) - ongoing discussion of debugging/testing methods.

Roché Compaan starts an interesting discussion on ZODB performance ([ZODB-Dev] What makes the ZODB slow?) - recommended reading.

Releases

• 2006-07-05 hotfix - Zope versions 2.7.0 - 2.7.8, 2.8.0 - 2.8.7, and 2.9.0 - 2.9.2 should have the 2006-07-05 hotfix installed to address a potential security issue
• Zope 2.8.8 - bugfix release due to security problems from zopes TTW usage of docutils (hotfixed issues already included)
• Zope 2.7.9 - bugfix release due to security problems from zopes TTW usage of docutils (hotfixed issues already included)

Sprints, Conference News & Press Announcements

[Zope3-dev] Security alert: use of Through-the-Web reStructuredText

Useful Links

• Europython 2006: timetable + slidelinks
• Guido van Rossum on Alan Kay’s EuroPython Keynote - Children First
• Functional Programming HOWTO - AMK: a tour of Python’s features suitable for implementing programs in a functional style
• PythonInfo Wiki: CheeseShopTutorial - Tutorial info on how to manage your packages with the cheeseshop
• docs.python.org: Distributing Python Modules - This document describes the Python Distribution Utilities (“Distutils'’) from the module developer’s point of view
• Python Cheese Shop: wsgiserialize 0.1 - Simple object serialization middleware for WSGI output. Object serialization formats include JSON, YaML, pickle, and cPickle.
• PyArticle - Essentially, PyArticle is pythonic, easy-to-use text convertor. It can take input text in various easy-to-write formats (Asciidoc, Czechtile, …) and produce various outputs (Xhtml, Html, PDF, ODF, …)
• Local Names is a way to bind names to URLs

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“When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission.” - Tim Berners-Lee: Net Neutrality: This is serious

Jim Fulton releases The Zope Buildout project. zc.buildout provides support and tools for creating and assembling applications from multiple parts, Python or otherwise.

Rob Miller publishes a great write-up on ‘Understanding and Using GenericSetup in Plone‘, a detailed look at GenericSetup.

Releases

• Plone 2.5 - This release requires Zope 2.8.7 and Python 2.3.5+ or Zope 2.9.3+ and Python 2.4.2+
• AdvancedQuery 2.0 - Dieter Mauer announces AQ2.0 (now with incremental ranking) - AQ is a Zope product aimed to overcome several limitations of ZCatalog’s native search function.

Useful Links

• WSGI Wiki - central hub
• webstring: An XML Template Engine for Python is a template engine for programmers whose preferred template languages are Python and HTML (and XML for people who swing that way). — ElementTree and lxml Implementation
• HTTP Header Linking - Mark Nottingham suggests to add ‘LINK’ back into HTTP1.1 spec (LINK and PROFILE headers are equivs of the HTML elements)
• The purpose of TracHacks is to provide free Subversion hosting for community created Trac hacks
• sparql is an HTTP Sparql client written in Python
• xturtle.py - turtle graphics for Python, great new turtle library and demosuite from Gregor Lingl
• A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy - Clay Shirky’s keynote on Social Software at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in Santa Clara on April 24, 2003
• Essentials, 2006 edition [dive into mark] - mark pilgrims ubuntu essential software list

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