Development

ZWarehouse Shopping Cart

ZWarehouse shopping cart is an online e-commerce system that has been built on the Zope web development platform, the MySQL database, and the Python language. It has been developed by an organization called the Halogen Group.

Some of the ZWarehouse features include:

• Support for multiple languages.
• User-defined currencies.
• Editable regional settings.
• Support for manual and automatic exchange rate calculations.
• Tax configuration by country and region.
• Configurable product attributes.
• Modules for order payment and shipment.
• An administrative interface which requires no programming knowledge.
• A Customer searchable order database.
• Real-time order tracking.
• Editable product attributes.
• Support for multiple payment gateways and credit card processing.

See the ZWarehouse feature list for the full story, or the screenshots page to see ZWarehouse in action.

Version 0.6 Alpha 1 of ZWarehouse shopping cart was recently announced on the Zope Members News. "Among other e-commerce solutions, ZWarehouse has a optimal set of features - allowing Your business to grow without a worry. Zope scalability and perfomance, open-source platform, well-documented interfaces for extensions and several years experience of development team gives You a chance to concentrate on sales and marketing policy." A more detailed list of changes is also available for this version.

ZWarehouse shopping cart includes a RedHat Toaster page which offers the installer step-by-step installation procedures for RedHat versions 8 and 9.

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System Applications

Audio Projects

OggCarton Home Jukebox goes beta (SourceForge)

There's an announcement on SourceForge for the OggCarton project. "OggCarton is a cross-platform CD ripper, database, and web server for Ogg and MP3 files. OggCarton needs no external database or web server. With this release, the OggCarton Home Jukebox software moves from the alpha to the beta stage. Accordingly, binaries and installers for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows are now available for those who prefer to not roll their own. Full source is still available for those who do. Enjoy!"

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Database Software

PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 21st 2003

Here's the latest PostgreSQL Weekly News. This week's big news is the release of 7.3.3.

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PostgreSQL v7.3.3 available

Version 7.3.3 of the PostgreSQL database is available. "It has been almost three(3) months now since the last release on the v7.3 branch, and there have been several fixes back patched, suitable for production release."

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Practical database design, Part 1 (IBM developerWorks)

Philipp K. Janert explains database design on IBM's developerWorks. "What are the best choices when designing the schema for a relational database? What is the rationale in deciding in favor of one and against some other alternative? Given the amount of vendor-specific recommendations, it is all too easy to overlook basic relational database fundamentals. In this first of two parts, author Philipp K. Janert talks about simple and complex datatypes, and about primary and foreign keys -- the plumbing that holds the entire database together."

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Electronics

New gEDA software

The latest new software releases from the gEDA (GPL Electronic Design Automation) site include new versions of the Icarus Verilog compiler and gaf (Gschem and Friends).

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Xcircuit version 3.1.15 available

Development continues on xcircuit, an electronic schematic drawing program. Version 3.1.15 is available. Change information is in the source code.

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Mail Software

Command-Line Email (O'Reilly)

Robert Bernier discusses some email foundations on O'Reilly. "The mid-1990's was a time of evolution. The ordinary person discovered the Internet and the Internet discovered a new purpose. The first RFCs (Requests For Comments) were coming out, describing a standard for email transmissions of images, sounds, and binaries that would overcome the 7-bit ASCII limitations that had been adopted all those years before. MIME or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, was a new standard meant to succeed the patchwork of binary-to-ASCII solutions."

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Printing

Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19

Version 1.1.19 of CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19, has been announced. "CUPS 1.1.19 fixes a denial-of-service attack vulnerability and adds support for fast reconfiguration, option retension and defaulting when adding and modifying printers, binary PostScript printing, fax device features, custom web applications via CGI, PHP, Java, and Python, and simple scripting support for Java, Perl, and PHP. The new release also contains bug fixes including the LPD printing and Solaris signal handling bugs."

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LinuxPrinting.org news

This week's changes on LinuxPrinting.org include new printer database entries for the the HP DeskJet 450, HP 2500C, 2500CM, and DesignJet ColorPro CAD printers.

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Web Site Development

Testing mod_perl 2.0 (O'Reilly)

Geoffrey Young talks about testing mod_perl 2.0 on O'Reilly. "Writing a series of tests that executes against a live Apache server has become much simpler since the advent of Apache-Test. Although Apache-Test, as part of the Apache HTTP Test Project, is generic enough to be used with virtually any version of Apache (with or without mod_perl enabled), it comes bundled with mod_perl 2.0, making it the tool of choice for writing tests for your mod_perl 2.0 modules. "

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WebGUI 5.3 (SourceForge)

Version 5.3 of WebGUI, a perl-based content management system, has been released. "WebGUI 5.3 is here and packed with new goodies. It includes a new theme management system that will easily enable you to transport your designs and templates from one site to another with the click of a mouse. 5.3 also includes a new Data Form wobject that allows content managers to build simple data entry applications on the fly. The default rich editor has been upgraded to include direct integration with the collateral manager, spell checking, and emoticons. There is also a brand new trash and clipboard management system which makes it even easier to move your content around. Among dozens of other features there are also over 10 new macros to make your content mangement experience faster and easier."

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ZOPE RPMs Announced (ZopeMembers)

Zope has been packaged in RPM and deb format packages. The Redhat 7.3, 8.0, 9, SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, and Debian/woody platforms are supported.

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ZopeTestCase 0.7.0 Released (ZopeMembers)

Zope Members News has an announcement for version 0.7.0 of ZopeTestCase. "ZopeTestCase is a unit testing framework and TestCase for Zope testing. It is built on PyUnit and the Testing package coming with Zope. Version 0.7.0 includes two bugfixes, a refactored fixture implementation, and better interfaces."

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

Hydrogen 0.8.0 released

Version 0.80 of Hydrogen, a Gnu/Linux drum machine, has been released with numerous improvements and bug fixes.

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Tkeca 1.4.0 Released!

Version 1.4.0 of Tkeca, a GUI front-end for the Ecasound audio utility, is available and features a number of new capabilities.

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Desktop Environments

GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.2 (GnomeDesktop)

Gnomedesktop.org has an announcement for version 2.3.2 of the GNOME Development Series Desktop. "This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.3.x series will eventually become the official 2.4 release." See the GNOME 2.3.2 Changelog for more details.

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KDE-CVS-Digest

The May 23, 2003 edition of the KDE-CVS-Digest is out: "Menu usability gets improved. KDE Print gets printer capability access and quite a few bug fixes. Kate now has command line access to variables, similar to Vim commands or Emacs local variables. Plus numerous fixes to keyboard handling, KSpread and Konqueror. All this and more in the latest KDE-CVS-Digest."

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KDE Traffic #52

Issue #52 of KDE Traffic is out. Topics include: KDE 3.1.2, KSSL based S/MIME plugin available, Change file permissions using octal numbers, and KDE CVS Commit Policy.

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Financial Applications

Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.4

Version 1.84 of the GnuCash stable series has been released with a long list of additions and fixes.

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GUI Packages

FLTK 1.1.4rc1 Now Available for Testing

Version 1.1.4rc1 of FLTK, the Fast, Light ToolKit is available. "The FLTK 1.1.4 release is primarily a bug-fix release including fixes to FLUID and the Fl_File_Chooser, Fl_Help_View, Fl_Text_Display, and Fl_Text_Editor widgets. The new release also adds a find method to Fl_Help_View."

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Interoperability

Wine Traffic

Issue #171 of Wine Traffic is online. Topics include: TransGaming Product Update, CrossOver Office Review Wine Tech Meeting, Bugzilla Upgraded, Making Mono's Winforms Work, and More BiDi Work?

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Office Applications

AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #145 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out. Here's the summary: "Quite a bit of bug squishing, some noteworthy work on Windows and Footnotes and Endnotes exporting to the HTML format await you. Some HIGrrrification? work was done, but no one sent me pretty screen shots :*( Well, maybe next week!"

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Evolution 1.4 Release Candidate 1 has been liberated. (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org reports on the release of the Evolution 1.3.92 personal and workgroup information management application. See the release notes for change information.

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GNUe Traffic

Issue #82 of GNUe Traffic has been published. Take a look for the latest GNU Enterprise news.

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OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta 2 released

Version 1.1 Beta2 of the OpenOffice.org office suite has been released. "Openoffice.org 1.1 Beta2 represents a significant advance in the application and incorporates the features and changes introduced in the developer builds over the past year. The release includes a massive amount of new and exciting functionality, features and bugfixes compared to the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x releases".

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Web Browsers

Jazilla Milestone 1 Released (MozillaZine)

According to MozillaZine, the Jazilla project has announced the release of its first milestone. "The Jazilla project aims to rewrite Mozilla in Java. It started shortly after the release of the Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code in 1998 but development petered out in 2000. It was revived by Mathew McBride last year has been completely rewritten to follow a more Mozilla-like architecture (Jazilla Classic was closer to the old Netscape Communicator)."

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Tree Branches for Mozilla 1.4 (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine has an announcement for a Mozilla 1.4 branch. "Checkins to this branch require approval from drivers@mozilla.org. Meanwhile, the trunk has been reopened for 1.5 Alpha development. See tinderbox for the latest tree status."

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Mozilla Status Update

The May 23, 2003 Mozilla Status Update is out. Topics include: Mozilla Thunderbird, ChatZilla 0.8.31, Documentation, Bookmarks, Junk Mail Controls, View Source, and Tree Status.

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Miscellaneous

Krusader Project Needs Developers

According to KDE.News, the Krusader project needs more developers. "Krusader is a twin-panel file manager for KDE, patterned after old-school managers like Midnight Commander and Norton Commander. It features basically all your file-management needs, plus extensive archive handling, mounted filesystems support, ftp and much much more. So far, the project has been developed by two developers, whose time is now not enough to continue the rapid pace of development. If you're a developer and you're interested in Krusader, we need your help!"

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Languages and Tools

C

Input Validation in C and C++ (O'ReillyNet)

O'Reilly has published an excerpt from the book Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++. "Eavesdropping attacks are often easy to launch, but most people don't worry about them in their applications. Instead, they tend to worry about what malicious things can be done to the machine on which the application is running. Most people are far more worried about active attacks than they are about passive attacks."

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Caml

Caml Weekly News

The May 20-27, 2003 Caml Weekly News is out. Topics include: Theorem proving example code available, Data structures, and Generating a call-graph.

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Java

Java theory and practice: Hashing it out (IBM developerWorks)

Brian Goetz writes about Java hashing techniques on IBM's developerWorks. "Every Java object has a hashCode() and an equals() method. Many classes override the default implementations of these methods to provide a higher degree of semantic comparability between object instances. In this installment of Java theory and practice, Java developer Brian Goetz shows you the rules and guidelines you should follow when creating Java classes in order to define hashCode() and equals() effectively and appropriately."

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Lisp

SBCL 0.8.0 released

Version 0.8.0 of SBCL is available. "This is a major release with many changes, including support for native threads (on x86 Linux with kernel 2.4 or later), the ability of building SBCL using CLISP as a cross-compilation host, implementations of the MD5 algorithm and the simple-streams interface, and a merge of PCL classes with Common Lisp classes. This version also features better ANSI compliance, an interface to the CLOS MetaObject Protocol, improvements to debugging tools, and more."

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Perl

This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The May 19-25, 2003 edition of This Week on perl5-porters is online. "Perhaps a bit late, but ready at least, here is your latest P5P summary, full of last week's selected threads. Read about I/O problems and other language issues."

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This week on Perl 6 (O'Reilly)

The May 18, 2003 edition of This week on Perl 6 is out with the latest Perl 6 news.

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PHP

PHP Weekly Summary

Topics on this week's PHP Weekly Summary include: 4.3.2 RC 4, fd/stdio patch, renaming stream functions, PHP 5 speedups, include_once, require_once, and Apache 2 PATH_TRANSLATED.

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PHP 4.3.2RC4 Released

Version 4.3.2RC4 of PHP has been released. "This is the fourth and final release candidate and should have no critical problems/bugs. Nevertheless, please download and test it as much as possible on real-life applications to uncover any remaining issues."

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Python

Python 2.2.3 rc 1 (SourceForge)

SourceForge mentions the availability of the first release candidate for Python 2.2.3. "We expect Python 2.2.3 final to be released within a week of this announcement."

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The May 26, 2003 Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is out with the week's Python news.

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Python-dev Summary

The Python-dev Summary for the first half of May is now available. It looks at programmer control over dictionary sparseness, default values in classes using slots, a Timbot sighting, and more.

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Daily Python-URL

Take a look at the Daily Python-URL for a long list of Python-related articles.

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Writing good exceptions (IBM developerWorks)

Cameron Laird writes about Python exception handling code on IBM's developerWorks. "A refined exception system is one of the most distinctive advantages modern programming languages offer. Many experienced programmers still don't know, though, how to use exceptions well. Or, perhaps more precisely, they don't use them the way I think best. One consequence, among others, is to damage the security of their systems. So, let's see what we can improve."

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Ruby

Ruby-GNOME2 0.5.0 Released! (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org reports on a new release of Ruby-GNOME2, the Ruby language bindings to GNOME 2. "Not much has changed, mostly bugs being fixed and some new classes and methods have been added. The Ruby/GtkSourceView project has been started, allowing use of the GtkSourceView widget from your Ruby programs."

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Tcl/Tk

Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 release (SourceForge)

Version 8.4.3 of Tcl/Tk has been announced. A long list of bugs have been fixed, testers are needed.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The May 26, 2003 Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! has been published. Take a look for the latest Tcl/Tk news.

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XML

DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2 released (SourceForge)

A new version of DocBook XSL Stylesheets is available with the following explanation: "Major bug fix for 1.61.1 and accumulated enhancements and fixes from previous releases."

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XML Data Management: Information modeling with XML (IBM developerWorks)

IBM's developerWorks has published an excerpt from the book XML Data Management. "As long as XML was used as a container for data managed by legacy systems, it was sufficient to consider only syntax when building documents. Now that XML is being used to do more than simply express data, it is important to consider grammar and style as well. Obviously, proper syntax is necessary for parsers to be able to accept XML documents at all. Good grammar insures that once XML information has been assimilated, it can be effectively interpreted without an inordinate need for specific (and redundant) domain knowledge on the part of application programs. Good style insures good application performance, especially when it comes to storing, retrieving, and managing information."

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XHTML is the Most Important XML Vocabulary (O'Reilly)

Kendall Grant Clark talks about the latest XHTML 2.0 draft. "Taking the long view of recent technology, XHTML may be the most important XML vocabulary ever created. What I mean is not that XHTML will be the most widely deployed XML vocabulary, though if we take the long view, it could be. What I mean is that XHTML puts XML's reputation -- and, by extension, the W3C's reputation -- on the line to a greater degree than any other XML vocabulary."

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Profilers

OProfile 0.5.3 has been released

Version 0.5.3 of the OProfile code profiler has been released. This version includes a number of bug fixes and some new features.

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Miscellaneous

SCons 0.14 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.14 alpha of SCons has been announced. "SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build tool). This release most notably adds support for Java builds (javac, javah, rmic and jar), and adds integrated Autoconf-like functionality for finding #include files and libraries. This release also contains significant performance improvements from previous releases."

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