Please read this quarter's "Letter from the Editor" -- it will give you an overview of what to expect in ZopeMag's 9th Issue.

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Update:

Issue 9 is complete. Next issue of ZopeMag should be out this week!

Another first for ZopeMag -- we have just published our first Book Review! Subscribers should not miss Jim Allman's excellent Flash and Zope article. The product review of CorpCalender is now available as well.

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Interviews:   Interview with Joel Burton by: ZopeMag Staff In this Issue we chat with Joel Burton. Very active in the Zope and Plone community and instrumental in the relaunch of the DC Zope and Python User group. Articles:   Improving WebDAV in Zope and Plone by: Sidnei da Silva This indepth article guides you through Sidnei's work with detailed code examples on improving the WebDAV experience in Zope and Plone.   Profiling Zope (Part II) by: Michel Pelletier Final part of this article series on debugging and fine tuning using profiling in Zope.   Redesigning the portal with CPSSkins and CPSPortlets by: Jean-Marc Orliaguet In this article you will get an insight into a revolutionary new way of designing portals for CMF, CPS or Plone. By using the visual theme editor CPSSkins to define the layout and the look and feel of the portal and by using CPSPortlets to manage the user interface elements (a.k.a. "portlets") you will see how to get complete control over your portal without writing a single line of code.   Zope and Flash by: Jim Allman Flash makes a great client-side complement to a Zope server, but it can be tricky to deploy a working, up-to-date Flash client. This article will share solutions for managing Flash Player installation; tips for coping with streaming media and code; design strategies for Flash apps and shared libraries; and a strategy for managing the browser cache, to make sure your Flash files are always up to date.  Localization (Part I of II) by: Milos Prudek Localization is one of the most underestimated undertakings in software design. If your application has not been designed for localization from its inception, there will be tons of tedious modifications to be made. Whether you start from scratch or need to reengineer your old application for multilingual support, the first part of our localization series will provide the essential linguistic background.

Book Review: Definitive Guide to Plone by: Samuel Sotillo Samuel review's Andy McKay's new Plone Book. Guides: Writing Zope 2 Products by: K. Kirchner In this miniGuide we'll take a look at the essentials of writing products for Zope 2. In one of our next issues we will publish a similar guide for writing Zope 3 products. Product Review: Corp Calender by: K. Kirchner Corp Calendar is an easy-to-use calendar application to store your events and share them on a Zope site. It's views are done in DTML. The calendar can be viewed by year, month, week or day, and events can be all-day events or of a certain amount of time. Bastion Ledger by: Samuel Sotillo Summary: Developed to compete with big-name products like Oracle's NetLedger, MS's Business Solutions, and SAP's mySAP, BastionLedger provides a framework to develope complex bookkeeping systems, including support for payroll management, inventory control, order management, and financial reporting.