Cheese Shop: xlrd 0.5.2
Library for developers to extract data from M$ Excel(tm) spreadsheet files.
KNotes: Collaboarative Knowledge Development
Built atop Plone / CMF / Zope, Knotes adds an RDBMS-backed discussion and blogging engine.
PyCon 2006 Sprint, Day 1
Notes and whiteboard from the first sprint day.
New Tools for Testing Web Applications with Python
I just finished my presentation on Selenium and FunkLoad, and promised to get the slides online ASAP (I will likely upload them to the conference site as well):
CMF 2.0 Release Update
tl;dr
I'd like to review the current status of a number of the CMF 2.0 roadmap items, and ask for feedback from the community on how they fit into a near-term release of a beta for CMF 2.0. In fact, I would like to release an alpha this weekend, followed by a more-or-less feature complete beta by the end of the month.
Silva Moves to Z3 I18N
Martijn Faassen details his choice to drop PlacelessTranslationService
in favor of the Zope3 I18N support made available via Five.
Frostbite 0.4 Released
In response to a couple of issues reported by Suresh Vaidyan, I have released version 0.4 of the Frostbite ("skin freezer") product.
Conflicting Interests
Bruce Scneier's damning account of Sony's rootkit indicts the anti-virus software providers.
Kudos to Chris McDonough, as well!
Chris has been steadily at work this week on finishing his Basket product, which makes it possible to distribute Zope add-ons using Phillip Eby's "eggs".
This product is a short-term implementation of the egg-related features, which will go away once the feature lands in the Zope core.
Kudos to Florent Guillaume!
Florent Guillaume's work to bridge back the Zope3 event model to Zope2 is an amazing feat.