Zope Weekly News
Mike Pelletier
mike@digicool.com
Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:51:39 -0500 (EST)
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
* XML.com has published another Zope article by Amos Latteier,
titled "Advanced XML Applications in Zope"
http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/02/23/zope/index.html
New Products
* Software Product: PMPSurvey, by "sleeper"
This is another survey product. It supports single and multiple
answer questions. It may easily be embedded within other web
pages, and reportedly sports a nice management interface.
http://www.zope.org/Members/sleeper/PMPSurvey
Updates
* Software Product: FSSession, by "gaaros"
This product can be used to maintain arbitrary per-visitor data
(session data) without burdening your ZODB with excessive
transactions. It does this by storing the sessions on your
filesystem.
This update, 0.2.3, uses cPickle, which makes it faster and more
flexible. There are additional new features.
http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession
* Software Product: BannerFolder, by "lalo"
This product randomly displays one of it's contained ads or DTML
Methods. There are provisions for tracking click-thrus and for
limiting the number of times an ad will display.
The current version is 0.4.
http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/BannerFolder
* Software Product: ZRadius, by "Zen"
This is a Radius authenticator. It can be used on it's own, or in
Zope as a GenericUserFolder plug-in. This is a bug-fix release,
bringing the version to 1.1.
http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/ZRadius
Zope.org items
* Zope Documentation Plan, by Amos Latteier
Amos Latteier is soliciting feedback on his Zope Documentation
Plan. It describes the initiatives to improve the documentation
situation which are underway at DC, their goals, and the
assumptions they are based on. If you would like to offer
feedback, Amos is available at <amos@digicool.com>.
http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/Documentation/Plan
* Tip: Using PythonMethods on FreeBSD, by "als"
This tip points out that a module required by PythonMethods (new)
is not enabled by default by FreeBSD's python port. It describes
the solution.
http://www.zope.org/Members/als/tips/PythonMethod_FBSD
* All Product Releases, by Martijn Pieters
This page is designed to be used with wget, Go!Zilla, or some
other web-sucking tool. It contains links to every Product
Release on the Zope site.
http://www.zope.org/Members/mj/AllProds
* How-To: Wizards Made Easy, by "jspisak"
This document explains a few techniques which make it easy to
create simple multiple-page forms, like Windows' Wizards.
http://www.zope.org/Members/jspisak/wizard_keys
--
Mike Pelletier.
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Subject: DCPIGgies: Next Monday, 7:30 pm
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The next DCPIGgies (DC Python Interest Group) meeting is less than a
week away. The meeting will be held at CNRI on Monday, March 13 from
7:30pm to 9:00pm.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to me: jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us.
Speaker: Scott Cotton
Static Type and Interface Checking for Python
General Review and Fundamental Decisions
Abstract
----------
This presentation reviews various possible ways of adding static type
checking to python. The problem poses two questions:
1) What sort of static type checking system would be most
appropriate for python?
2) By what means may static type checking be made optional?
A decision tree for each question is presented based on a combination
of type theory, an understanding of python, and properties that have
become apparent in the development of a sample type checking system.
Finally, we discuss some overall approaches that would maximize the
benefits and/or minimize the drawbacks of adding optional static type
checking to python.
Scott will be speaking from 8:00 to 9:00pm. We will have food and
introductions starting at 7:30pm. We may also have some time after
the talk for Q&A with Guido and Barry on Python and JPython.
Pizza, salad, and soda will be provided courtesy of Foretec Seminars.
Please RSVP by email to jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us. I need to know how
many people will attend and how many will be eating pizza.
Directions to CNRI can be found on the Web:
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/directions.html
See you there!
-- Jeremy Hylton <http://www.python.org/~jeremy/>