2 weeks after our release candidate, I am very proud that we released eZ components 1.0 today.

As usual, you can download the archives (tar.bz2, zip) from our website or use the PEAR Installer:

$ pear upgrade ezc/eZComponents
or
$ pear install components.ez.no/eZComponents

(note that you don't need ...-beta anymore! ;)

Beside some bug fixes, we concentrated on documentation in the past two weeks: Each component has now an introductory tutorial in it's online documentation and the API docs have been revised.

Sebastian has already brought the 1.0 release into Gentoos portage tree, so they are available through its fabulous emerge command (currently soft-masked, but that should be gone, soon).

Now we'll start working on 1.1! :)

If you have any suggestions on enhancements for 1.1 or have any other feedback, please let us know in our forum!

2 weeks after our release candidate, I am very proud that we released eZ components 1.0 today.

As usual, you can download the archives (tar.bz2, zip) from our website or use the PEAR Installer:

$ pear upgrade ezc/eZComponents
or
$ pear install components.ez.no/eZComponents

(note that you don't need ...-beta anymore! ;)

Beside some bug fixes, we concentrated on documentation in the past two weeks: Each component has now an introductory tutorial in it's online documentation and the API docs have been revised.

Sebastian has already brought the 1.0 release into Gentoos portage tree, so they are available through its fabulous emerge command (currently soft-masked, but that should be gone, soon).

Now we'll start working on 1.1! :)

If you have any suggestions on enhancements for 1.1 or have any other feedback, please let us know in our forum!

eZ systems is proud to announce the first stable release eZ components 1.0. This final release provides 16 components that you can freely use in your PHP applications. Right after this release we will continue to plan the 1.1 release which will feature additional components.

Here's a question… If someone comes to you and asks "How do I organise myself in PHP?", what do you say? In particular, if they are an experienced programmer in other languages but still learning their way around PHP. The question I'm really asking is what application(s) would you point people at as an example for how to do PHP.

These days I find myself pointing people at Eventum, MySQL's bug tracking application. There are things I personally have "issues" with in the way Eventum is written but those are really just my personal taste.

He talks about what he likes about their system and what benefits it has for potentiial/beginning PHP developers. He also asks for comments on what other PHP applications that developers could be pointed to as an example of good structure, a "blueprint"...

The New York PHP Conference & Expo is taking place in midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the historic New Yorker Hotel. There will be three full days of sessions, tutorials, exhibits, and networking events.

NYPHPCon 2006 focuses on the The PHP Business Community, with two featured parallel tracks: Business Strategy and Technical Solutions. World renowned industry keynote speakers will kick off the conference, highlighting PHP's role in the business of open source applications. Widely recognized session speakers will provide a rich knowledge base, making NYPHPCon 2006 essential for enterprise open source solutions.

They are also announcing their Call for Papers both on the business side and the technical side. There are already some sessions lined up, and you can register at any time.

For complete details, check out the main site...

Friends, I'm sure the post would be a heck of a lot funnier if instead of "How" I would write "Why", but I'm sticking to "How" for...now.

He says some about what Eclipse is and how it can be extended, specifically mentioning the PHPeclipse Project.

The PHPeclipse project aims to create a full featured PHP IDE with features like internal PHP parser, debugger, code formatter, outline view, templates and much more.

There are also a foew other tools he mentions: a Subversion plugin, XMLBuddy, and the JSEclipse plugin...

In this weeks newsletter we bring you information about eZ components, partner meetings, eZ publish German Community and an update on the current bug status in eZ publish.

The German-speaking eZ publish community teamed up to create http://www.ezpublish.de, where you can find a forum, articles and a weblog.

I wrote a guest tutorial about designing eZ publish which describes for beginners how to customize the CSS and templates.

Those of you speaking German are invited to contribute, e.g. by being active in the forums, writing articles or blog entries. This page describes how to contribute.