Archive for March, 2006

We have presented Python yesterday with Stéfane, at the

french XP days conference (the first conference in France on eXtreme Programming and Agile methodologies), to demonstrate its agility.

The talk’s title was “Python: un langage agile” (“Python: an agile programming language” in english)

Here are the slides (in french)

(Post originally written by Tarek Ziadé on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

L’association Aristote, par
l’intermédiaire de son groupe de travail
PIN (pérennisation des informations numériques) a organisé le 16 mars
2006 à l’école Polytechnique le séminaire ayant
pout thème

“Pérennité de l’information : relire nos documents informatiques
bureautiques ou personnels dans trente ans?”

Les slides de ma présentation concernant OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument et
la démarche de normalisation OASIS ainsi que ses suites sont disponibles sur
le site d’inDesko.

(Post originally written by Laurent Godard on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

CPSLDAPSetup is a directory configuration that allows CPS to use a LDAP
directory as its members database.

It’s of course not a novelty per se: CPS directory options have been
including LDAP backing directories for a very long time and the optional
CPSUserFolder product allowed to use them directly for authentication
purposes since the early days of CPS 3.3

One of the many under-the-hood improvements in the jump from CPS 3.3.8 to
CPS 3.4 consisted in making CPS 3.4 the default user folder.

CPS directory configuration is incredibly flexible: it allows for vertical
and horizontal aggregation of directories, which can themselves come from
ZODB, LDAP or SQL.  We have field renamings, missing entries… 
Thanks to this, CPS can swallow very heterogeneous setups that were not
meant to use with it.

All this flexibility also makes it a bit complicated to design a working
LDAP setup from scratch. This is the … Read more

The voting process of the
OpenOffice.org Developpers Article Constest happened these past
days

And the winner is … Cédric
Bosdonnat for

(Post originally written by Laurent Godard on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

Stani, from the SPE (Stani’s Python Editor) project, has launched among
other people, a website so all Python IDE projects out there can
collaborate.

Very cool !

• The news: http://pyxides.stani.be/news/launch
• The project: http://pyxides.stani.be/
• IDE Developers reactions: http://pyxides.stani.be/wiki/AuthorsOfIDEsTools

(Post originally written by Tarek Ziadé on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

CPSTypeMaker provides a simple yet powerfull way
to create new document types over a CPS portal.

It drives CPSSchemas to let the user creates new types over the web,
with a simple editor where new fields can be added and a layout
created with the mouse

Thanks to CPSSchemas architecture, a document type can be changed in the fly,
and all its existings instances automatically updated

This tool generates Python dictionnaries that are usually coded by hand,
and therefore exportable to embed the new types in Zope Products

In the future CPSTypeMaker might evolve in a generic visual editor, that can generate CPSSchemas document types or any other type of document description (xml, etc..), through a plugins system

In the screencast below (aggregator readers, you should visualize this entry in a flash-enabled browser), a new “Person” type is created, and an instance created.
Then the type is extended with an … Read more

I am very pleased to announce that the French
Press Agency (AFP) and the French
Institute of Statutory Auditors (CNCC) announce their support to the Apogée project (proposed to the Eclipse
Foundation) as interested consumers. The proposal will be updated
soon.

I would like to thank them (Apogée wouldn’t have been possible without
projects they financed, in fact), and welcome them to the project.

Note: if you are an interested consumer of Apogée, do not hesitate to
write me! :-)

(Post originally written by Eric Barroca on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

I am delighted to report that db4objects and TMT (db4objects’s partner) announce
their interest as commiters/contributors in the Apogée project (Eclipse Foundation’s
proposal here).

Db4objects is the software vendor of the opensource object database for
Java called db4o. We are considering it as a perfect solution for Apogée
default storage engine. I am sure that their support will definitely help
greatly this project.

Thanks to Christof Wittig (CEO of db4objects) and Sato Takenori (CEO of
TMT) to have made this choice.

Note: The proposal will be updated as soon as possible.

(Post originally written by Eric Barroca on the old Nuxeo blogs.)