Last week Fry-IT released CheckoutableTemplates which is a templating module add-on for Zope. It includes a module called slimmer.py which can compress XHTML, HTML and CSS. The CSS had a flaw in it that I hadn't foreseen. This flaw arises when you use M$ Internet Explorer hacks like this for example:

Yesterday we at Fry-IT Ltd. released our little Corporate Calendar application. It's nothing spectacular but it works and does the job for us. We use it on our intranet. It's Open Source under the ZPL license.

I'm glad to announce the review of my own web application called CorpCalendar on ZopeMag.com.

I've learned something today. The cPickle module in Python can be boosted with very little effort. I've also learnt that there's something even faster than a hotted 'cPickle': marshal.