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Interviews:   Interview with Chris McDonough by: ZopeMag Staff In this Issue we chat with Chris McDonough. To say that he helps maintain the Zope Book and other Zope documentation is an understatement. Without Chris' work the Zope Book and Zope Developers Guide would not be the valuable documentation resources that everyone in the community depends on while achieving some "Zope Zen". Articles:   Developing Revision Manager by: Philipp von Weitershausen RevisionManager is a CVS frontend product for Zope. It brings the power of revision control to the ZODB, enabling different users to revise multiple objects simultaneously. The article gives some of the background for the development of RevisionManager and describes in detail how to install and implement it.   Converting the State of Hawaii Governor’s Website to Plone by: Jonagustine Lim Plone is probably one of the most sophisticated systems developed for Zope, powerful yet flexible enough to be customized to look like any other Website. Prior to the switch to Plone, the State of Hawaii Office of the Governor’s Website required a Macromedia Dreamweaver Web developer to update their Website content. After adopting the Plone CMS, several non-technical staff members now keep the site updated using nothing but their Web browser.   Building a community site - Step-by-step (Part II) by: Milos Prudek Milos brings us another installment of his "Building A Community Site" series. (See Issue 003 for the first part.) He describes in detail how to, for example, mirror content "Google style" and offers other nuggets of code.   Zope and SOAP by: Kristoph Kirchner SOAP enables developers using different programming languages to write programs that interact with each other, despite the difference in data types and structures. It is an XML-based protocol that defines the standards for encoding the messages that are sent between a webservice and a client. This article describes how to create your own webservice and how to make use of existing webservices, i.e. how to send data to and receive data from a webservice. This is shown using the Zolera SOAP Infrastructure (ZSI), a Python package that provides an implementation of SOAP messaging.  Building a New UI For Zope 3 - Zope Skins (Part III of III) by: Paul Everitt Zope 3 provides a new facility called skins for adding user interfaces to Zope applications. Skins are based on ideas from the CMF. Part I of the series looked at Rotterdam, the default skin for Zope 3 itself. In this second installment, we begin the process of building a custom user interface for Zope 3.

Product Reviews: Epoz by: K. Kirchner EPOZ is a WYSIWYG editor for DTML Documents and DTML Methods which can be integrated into Plone. The editor offers various functions such as character formatting (including preformats like headings), links, tables and more. It also comes with a toolbox for Plone, which enables you to easily insert links and images situated within your Plone member area. IE Edit Addon (Volker's Edit WYSIWYG) by: K. Kirchner Volker's Edit WYSIWYG uses the IE Editor and Haqa's Patch Kit and is designed for use with Zope Page Templates. It adds a new tab to Page Templates which provides a WYSIWYG editor with character formatting, tables, links and more. This editor makes it especially easy to manipulate table rows and cells. miniGuides: Zope Sprinting by: Albertas Algejevas Thinking about going to a Zope Sprint? This miniGuide tells you everything you need to know about how Sprints work and the ideas behind them. The ZPL by: Paul Everitt This miniGuide on the Zope Public License (ZPL) explains the history behind the ZPL and gives examples of what you can legally do with Zope.