Interview with Ploners
Formulator makes life easy
Server side python
Resetting Zope's session timeout
Getting undo history
A random idea that I’ve - along the lines of KnowNow, for intranets. Most people prefer information to come to them - that is why email, though a really bad tool for retaining institutional knowledge, is popular - instead of having to go to different places to collect it. A portal is useful, but doesn’t carry it to the next level. I’d also like to be able to get notifications through different means.
A Zope CMF site where people can rate the available communication channels (email, IM, pager etc) and subscribe to available event channels with ratings. Event channels send data to the router. Depending upon the user’s rating for the channel, an appropriate communication channel and the data forwarded. For example, server down messages have a high rating for me and highly rated communication channel for me is IM. So, when the server goes down, I get notified by IM.
I need to write down more thoughts on this. May be we don’t even need a KnowNow router. A simple Zope router product will be enough. And combined with XML-RPC and some modified version of RDF that support ratings, it should be easy to make client libraries.
Kapil Thangavelu has similar (to me atleast) code in the works. Event Channel and CMF Ratings.