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Interviews:   Interview with Jim Fulton by: ZopeMag Staff We talk with Jim Fulton, CTO of Zope Corporation, and the "father of Zope." Articles:   Why Zope 3? by: Jim Fulton The first production version of Zope 3 was released on November 7. This was a major milestone in the Zope 3 project. Many people are probably wondering what Zope 3 means to them, if they should start using it, and why. In this article, I'll try to answer these questions or, at the least, to provide sufficient information to help people answer these questions for themselves. by Jim Fulton  Localization (Part II 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.   SchoolTool Project by: Brian Sutherland The SchoolTool project is a unique open source project based on Zope X3. It aims to provide a free administration system for everything from primary schools to universities. Unique as it is a philanthropic project funded by Mark Shuttleworth to improve the level of education worldwide. Targeted at administration as it is a critical aspect of education where small improvements can yield great returns. This article will give a brief introduction to the three main SchoolTool development areas: The SchoolBell calendaring Zope component, the SchoolTool server itself and the yet to be named timetabling client

Article: CPSTypeMaker Visual edition of document types by: Tarek Ziadé One of the most important aspect in a web content managment system is the way document types are defined. The definition system has to be simple and efficient. Type creators want to easily combine widgets, wich are the atom of a document (text area, labels, etc.) to present informations. Tools like Archetypes and CPSSchemas bring these features to the developer through a new hi-level definition language that generates documents. But this also brings a new skill to learn for developers and does not help a lot non-developers. Like WYSIWYG HTML Editors does, a document type system should bring a visual tool used to generate definitions. That's what CPSTypeMaker is : a visual programming tool used to automatically create document type on a CPS portal. First, this article presents how CPSSchemas works and how it is used in CPSDocument, then it presents CPSTypeMaker and its uses. Last but not least, the article will focus on how the system can be extended thru widget programming. Book Review: Building Websites with Plone by: Samuel Sotillo Samuel review's J Cameron Coopers new Plone Book. Guides: SuperGuide to Zope Security (Part II of III) by: K. Kirchner The second part of our SuperGuide to Zope Security. Product Review: Issue Dealer by: Samuel Sotillo A review of Nidelven's commercial Issue Tracker software for Zope.