Zope

An advanced form and widget framework for Zope 3

The Plone Foundation is pleased to announce that the Plone 4.x Framework Team will, starting immediately, consider community proposals for substantive improvements to the Plone platform for the Plone 4.1 release.

The new release only fixed a small bug, but also add some better integration with Plone themes. What if fun: a bug inside Sunburst theme was the demonstration that the approach is good!

An alternative order UI support for contents view in Plone

ZODB 2.10b2 was released today. Quite a few bug fixes can be found in the release. ZEO has gotten quite a bit of attention:ZEO client cache corruption bug fixes.ConflictErrors didnt always invalidate cache entryCache tracing and simulation scripts ... [More] fixed and added to scripts directory.If you are using twisted there is an existing module for some level of ZODB integration. Check out zc.twist.NOTE: The main reason I wrote this blog entry is to gain practice on my new kenesis keyboard. Finding it difficult to retrain 20+ years of keyboard/finger movement. [Less]

Zope2 application server / web framework

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The zope.app.package has many dependencies but there are lighter packages which do the same. zope.app.wsgi To get rid of a zope.app.testing test dependency by using zope.app.wsgi two things are necessary: 1) Use zope.app.wsgi.testlayer to set up ... [More] the test layer Instead of: import os from zope.app.testing.functional import ZCMLLayer MyLayer = ZCMLLayer(     os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0], 'ftesting.zcml'),     __name__, 'MyLayer', allow_teardown=True) do: import zope.app.wsgi.testlayer import my.package MyLayer = zope.app.wsgi.testlayer.BrowserLayer(my.package) 2) Use zope.app.wsgi.testlayer.Browser for browser tests In browser tests use instead of: >>> from zope.testbrowser.testing import Browser the following one: >>> from zope.app.wsgi.testlayer import Browser zope.testing To get rid of: import zope.app.testing.setup def setUp(test):     zope.app.testing.setup.setUpTestAsModule(test, 'my.package.README') def tearDown(test):     zope.app.testing.setup.tearDownTestAsModule(test) use: import zope.testing.module def setUp(test):     zope.testing.module.setUp(test, 'my.package.README') def tearDown(test):     zope.testing.module.tearDown(test, 'my.package.README') Permalink | Leave a comment  » [Less]

After considering where to host the code I decided that GitHub is a very good option to allow easy participation from any interested members of the community.I created a repository with two Sphinx projects, one for articles and one for the book. In ... [More] the future, demonstration source code will be included there as well.The repository is at http://github.com/cguardia/ZODB-Documentation. If you are among the volunteers that will be writing articles for this blog, I suggest you strongly consider cloning the repository and doing your work there.At this moment the repository is empty, except for the book outline, but this will be changing soon. [Less]

This package aims to provide language dependent character set for sending emails form Plone site.