Mailman 3 November 1999 - Python-announce-list

Zope Weekly News - Wed, 3 Nov 1999
by Amos Latteier 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Hi, It was a normal week for Zope: many software announcements, community expansion, and many other exciting developments. Here are some hilights. It's official now, there will be a Zope book from O'Reilly. It won't be out for a while. When it is released it will probably be available under an open content license. Performance improved on the Zope.org web site thanks to new hardware and improved cache settings. Many folks who have submitted Zope bug reports will be happy to see lots of fixes appearing in CVS. These fixes mark early preparations for a Zope 2.1 release. * The performance of the www.zope.org web site was improved this week due to smarter HTTP and ZODB cache settings and better hardware. There were a few short down times but it looks like smooth sailing form here on out. Hooray! http://www.zope.org/ * Mike Pelletier announced that he and Dan York of LinuxCare will be writing a Zope book for O'Reilly. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013229.html * A perennial discussion on the Zope list is porting Zope to Java. Using Servlets with Zope would be great and JPython makes this relatively easy, right? Wrong. Philip Eby gives a good description of why we're not likely to see JZope for a long time. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013353.html * Edd Dumbill announced SiteSummary 1.1 a Zope product for managing RSS data. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013100.html * OgilvyInteractive is looking for a Chinese speaking Zope programmer. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013175.html * Stephan Richter announced ZPickle 0.0.1 a Zope Product to provide pickling services. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013266.html * Oleg Broytmann announced a Russian Zope mailing list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012885.html * Jeff Rush announced that he has updated his Zope RPMs. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012967.html * Marc Gehling announced a German Zope Yahoo club. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012908.html * Ethan Fremen announced a Zope and CSS How-To. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013032.html * Luciano Ramalho announced that Brazil On-line has launched a Zope-based real time news service. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013031.html * Petru Paler announced ClickTracker a Zope Product to track user activity. http://www.zope.org/Members/ppetru/ClickTracker * Tom Deprez posted summarized Zope Documentation Project happening in his "ZDP Weekly NEWS" post to the zdp list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-October/001003.html * Amos Latteier made this slides for his talk "Extending Zope in Python" available. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/PORPIGSlides * Mike Pelletier released ZDiscussions 0.1.0 This is a Zope Product for threaded discussions. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/ZDiscussions See you next week. -Amos == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Python Conference Hotel Change
by Guido van Rossum 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

The Foretec conference staff has this message about the upcoming Python conference: Due to construction delays, the Hilton Alexandria Old Town will not be completed in time for the Eighth International Python Conference. However, we are pleased to announce that we have secured an equally desirable facility for the conference. The new facility is the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. The Key Bridge Marriott is conveniently located on the Virginia side of the Key Bridge in the Rosslyn business district with easy access to restaurants, shops, and the Rosslyn metro stop. It overlooks the Potomac River, and is a 15 minute walk across the bridge to historic Georgetown in Washington, DC. (I should add that Georgetown is, if possible, an even better location than old town Alexandria for the typical Python conference evening activities. --Guido :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 2) [REPOST]
by David Ascher 02 Nov '99

02 Nov '99

[Note: this re-post of this week's "Python-URL!" corrects the URLs for the deja.com references.] Today is election day in the United States. Here are the winners from a much simpler yet equally non-scientific selection process: The Python Consortium is started! Hewlett-Packard and LLNL provides the marquee status and the big bucks, Digital Creations the wildly successful application, Interet quietly chips in, along with Foretec Seminars, the first organization that had a check in hand! http://www.python.org/consortium/ Michel Pelletier (of Digital Creations) and Dan York (of LinuxCare) announce that they are writing a Zope book for O'Reilly and Associates: http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZopeBook/index_html/index_html Jan Walter announces some scripts for Blender, a computer graphics rendering tool, with very nice pictures to boot: http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/ David S. Harrison puts forth code which formats number for human consumption: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=542270123 Scot Hacker explains how good scripting BeOS is http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991026S0001 Tim Peters sort of sorts out some of the sort issues sorted out between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=541957314 The same Tim accounts for a surprising 'feature' involving testing the object identity of immutable objects which puzzled Pearu Peterson and yours truly: http://www.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1999-November/003106.html ========================================================================= Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/consortium Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py Python Journal is at work on its second issue http://www.pythonjournal.com Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive what AI can generate http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python Archive probing trick of the trade: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&f… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird(a)neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird(a)NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 2)
by David Ascher 02 Nov '99

02 Nov '99

Today is election day in the United States. Here are the winners from a much simpler yet equally non-scientific selection process: The Python Consortium is started! Hewlett-Packard and LLNL provides the marquee status and the big bucks, Digital Creations the wildly successful application, Interet quietly chips in, along with Foretec Seminars, the first organization that had a check in hand! http://www.python.org/consortium/ Michel Pelletier (of Digital Creations) and Dan York (of LinuxCare) announce that they are writing a Zope book for O'Reilly and Associates: http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZopeBook/index_html/index_html Jan Walter announces some scripts for Blender, a computer graphics rendering tool, with very nice pictures to boot: http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/ David S. Harrison puts forth code which formats number for human consumption: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&=542270123 Scot Hacker explains how good scripting BeOS is http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991026S0001 Tim Peters sort of sorts out some of the sort issues sorted out between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&=AN=541957314 The same Tim accounts for a surprising 'feature' involving testing the object identity of immutable objects which puzzled Pearu Peterson and yours truly: http://www.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1999-November/003106.html ========================================================================= Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/consortium Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py Python Journal is at work on its second issue http://www.pythonjournal.com Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive what AI can generate http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python Archive probing trick of the trade: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&f… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird(a)neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird(a)NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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