Mailing List Archive

Hello,

This week saw the launch of Bruce Perens's Technocrat.net. This is one
of the highest profile Zope sites to date. Butch Landingin's Squishdot
product for Zope is a big part of what makes the site tick. Way to go
Bruce and Butch!

Another major thread on the Zope lists this week was e-commerce. Scott
Robertson released a credit card processing product for Zope, and there
was a lot of discussion about existing Zope e-commerce packages and
where to go from here.

Finally, activity continues at a fairly intense rate in CVS as
preparations for beta two are made. And thanks to David Ascher, you can
now easily download snapshots of the Zope development tree.

* Bruce Perens's new technology policy site, Technocrat.net made a big
splash this week. Bruce Perens is a major open source figure, and his
new site runs on Zope using the Squishdot product.

http://technocrat.net/
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/27/205246&mode=thread
http://technocrat.net/932767939/

* Zope showed up on Slashdot again in an Ask Slashdot article.

http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/07/31/0323235.shtml
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007580.html

* Scott Robertson announced a Cyber Cash Connector for Zope. This
allows you to conduct credit card transactions. A long discussion of
e-commerce and Zope followed on the zope-dev list.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007606.html

* Chris Petrilli announced a Database Adapter status page.

http://www.zope.org/Download/DAStatus
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007432.html

* Paul Everitt posted a note showing the growth of interest in Zope as
evidenced by the number of hits on Zope.org and the number of
subscribers to the Zope mailing lists.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007456.html

* Chris Petrilli announced the availability of slides used in a Zope
training.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007431.html
http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/Training/Material/

* Chris Petrilli posted a Database adapter roadmap.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/001013.html
http://www.zope.org/Information/DARoadmap

* Paul Everitt posted an announcement about Zope/Python activities at
the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention.

http://www.zope.org/Information/OReillyConferenceInfo
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007581.html

* Michel Pelletier announced ZSybaseDA 1.0.1, a Database Adapter for
Sybase.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007637.html
http://www.zope.org/Download/ZSybaseDA/

* Steve Spicklemire announced Zieve, Z-subclassable class that assists
in sorting ZClasses in various ways.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007691.html

* Brian Lloyd responded to a question about Pluggable Brains with an
informative post illuminating this powerful and under-documented
feature.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html

* Python guru David Ascher set up a nightly CVS snapshot archive for a
couple major Python projects including Zope. This allows you to get
access to the latest sources from CVS without using CVS.

http://starship.python.net/crew/da/zopedists/


Keep on Zopin!

-Amos

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Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com