In this month's issue of php|architect you can find an article on the eZ components. In this article I explain the goals for the project as well as architectural decisions that we took while developing this components library. It also shows a small example on how to use the components. Unfortunately the service (http://geo.derickrethans.nl.) it talks about is not yet life... I should get that going soon.

Some time ago I already wrote that I will be speaking at php|tek. Besides the three talks I will also give a tutorial/workshop on (proper) database design and optimization.

On Evolt.org, there's this new tutorial that steps you through the implementation of the TMX standard to create localization for your scripts.

One of the main concerns of internationalization consists of separating the main source code from the texts, the labels, the messages and all the other objects related to the specific language in use. This facilitates the translation process as such as all the resources related to the local language context are well identified and separated.

In a global market the costs to translate and update the texts (including labels, messages, menu elements and so on) can easily become quite high. This is the context where the TMX standard comes to help by applying to the translation and management process of these texts the concepts of reuse, increase of consistency, and the shortening of the production cycle. All this with the added bonus of cutting the development costs.

They give you the XML structure for the example they're working with and the code to get it all working. They also do a great job of explaining how the standards all work. The code is relatively undocumented, but is clear enough to be easily included and used on any site.

Derick Rethans writes:

[W]e are now releasing the first bug fix release of the whole eZ components package. Besides the fixes from last weeks it includes fixes in the ImageConversion, ImageAnalysis and Cache components. You can find downloads of the whole bundle on the downloads page (of ez.no). Users that use the PEAR installer can simply upgrade by running:
pear upgrade ezc/ezcomponents
For more information, see http://ez.no/community/news/ez_components_1_0_1

Derick Rethans writes:

After the first bug fix releases of some of the components last week we are now releasing the first bug fix release of the whole eZ components package. Besides the fixes from last weeks it includes fixes in the ImageConversion, ImageAnalysis and Cache components.
You can find downloads of the whole bundle on the downloads page (of ez.no). Users that use the PEAR installer can simply upgrade by running:
pear upgrade ezc/ezcomponents
For more information, see http://ez.no/community/news/ez_components_1_0_1

After the first bug fix releases of some of the components last week we are now releasing the first bug fix release of the whole eZ components package. Besides the fixes from last weeks it includes fixes in the ImageConversion, ImageAnalysis and Cache components.

I've fixed the issue with not updating the order for some users in the frontend (turns out the required cache clearing is integrated just fine but it needs the ContentObjectID in the form params as well, can't really figure out why, but never mind, after adding that it just works TM). Try it here or here, as well

I've had this working many months ago but never came round packaging it which I've finally done now. So I present a small demo of it (please note:while Anonymous user can reorder the things, displaying the reordered objects somehow fails because of some cache glitch; after clearing the cache the objects are in the new order, but more importantly, for admin users it works without cache clearing so it's probably some permission related thing).

Some time ago, Lukas asked for an overview of Open Source events and compiled one himself.

The tOSSad EU project also got a list of events online. eZ systems is a consortium partner in tOSSad, thus I recently passed some of the events to Görkem (a tOSSad fellow) which eZ systems had internally. He just added them.

If you'd like to have an event added to the tOSSad list, please leave a comment here.

BTW: tOSSad is an abbreviation of "towards Open Source Software adoption and dissemination". Take a look at www.tossad.org for more information.

Here are some more collections:

• All PHP Usergroup events
• OpenConf calendar of events
• Various scientific conferences
• Zak's collection of events
• Gesellschaft für Informatik Veranstaltungskalender

I’ve publish on ez contributions area a new contrib, named “Related Tool“. This collect two tools for the toolbar, one that make possible to view the related objects of a node in the front office, the other who make possible to view the reverse related objects of a node. There’re some settings to filter the [...]