Zope News for June 16 - 30, 2006
“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
