A programmer's tale

eZ publish Developer Workshop and Barcamp

June 2nd, 2007

On Saturday the 9th of June, the day after the eZ conference, there will be a rather small (compared to the eZ conference) eZ publish developers event. You can find more general information in a summary at eZpedia, a summary at ez.no and Paul’s announcement at the ez.no forums.

I’m not 100% sure yet what I will talk about, because there are a lot of interesting topics showing up lately. One of them could be the reuse of the database of 3rd party applications by using persistent objects. We recently integrated data from a custom made, basic ERP system in an eZ publish intranet this way. The open source MS SQL database plugin I made was also part of this solution.

Another area that’s bothering me for a long time is the inability of the current eZ publish package management system to find and retrieve updated packages from remote repositories in a more automated way. Last week I did some experiments based on existing code of the setup wizard and I’m sure that with a little more work this package update manager could become pretty cool. Some client code will be released right before the developer workshop. A package repository server extension is in it’s child shoes too. It would be great if this could be a part of the eZ projects site.

With that remark I come to my next possible subject, the status of eZ projects and a little insight in the tools used to get this framework up and running.

Finally, there’s also the existing PHP 5 port which runs pretty smooth most of the time.

C ya next Saturday!

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