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Find your way around at eZ Systems

Written by Robin Muilwijk Saturday, 12 December 2009 21:00

This post aims at people and/or community members that are new and recently discovered ez Systems and it's products such as eZ Publish. Hopefully this post will act as a guide to all available sites and more important the available information and where to find it.

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I have no words for Joomla! Leadership and OSM ignorance and failure

Written by Arno Zijlstra Saturday, 12 December 2009 09:22

no words

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Joomla! goes iPhone

Written by Wolfgang Disch Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:26

The way a website should look and behave in a mobile device is significantly different than how it does on a PC display. According to the principle "Write Once, Publish Everywhere" we don’t want to force users to maintain multiple copies of every page. That would be disgustingly inefficient, particulary for a site based on Joomla!

I want to present you a proposal which is based on a template and on a module which shows arcticles from your Joomla! website.

The template itself is made up of iPhone-optimized code including the iUI-Library of Joe Hewitt.This library helps the website to emulate a native iPhone App by using Javascript and CSS. Its goal is simply to turn ordinary standards-based HTML into a polished, usable interface that maps to iPhone interface conventions. You know from standard Apps the sliding pages, a header with Back-button and a menu, which is able to reload items using AJAX.

The big advantage is to load several iPhone pages at the same time so you have no delay when you navigate from page to page. This gives you a better useability especially when you are using EDGE connections. With not more than 16k the template is lightweight and fast.

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Native e-commerce coming to a Joomla! near you!

Written by Arno Zijlstra Saturday, 14 November 2009 16:35

Until now there hasn't been a real effort to create a Joomla! 1.5 native e-commerce platform but that's about to change. While there is an enormous need for such a system it is also a huge task to build. E-commerce is something different than running a website presenting content, it involves things like inventory and catalog management, customer management, payment handling and strong analytics options.

I've been involved in serious e-commerce quite a bit at a company that ran a whole portfolio of large stores with many millions of revenue and have learned that e-commerce isn't just simply putting some products online and wait for customers to come by. E-commerce is a very active task and requires dedication and active marketing efforts to get the most out of your sales process. An important part of this overall active store management are the tools you have available to run your store, the e-commerce platform.

Dioscouri is a well established name in the Joomla! world for delivering great products and with those products a very solid support process. They've taken up the task to build the first Joomla! native full featured e-commerce platform and I've been talking to Rafael and Vika who lead Dioscouri about this platform extensively and I'm very exited about it.

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Refactoring your code to Fluent Interface

Written by Wilco Jansen Friday, 06 November 2009 23:45

With the introduction of chaining methods together in PHP 5 we now have the opportunity to implement Fluent Interfaces in PHP which opens up an interesting way of writing more readable and smaller code.

Fluent Interfaces are not a new programming construct, they provide us with the ability to directly de-reference an object, PHP developers can build objects using fluent interfaces.

On the first look this might look like abracadabra if you are totally new to the new buzzword "Fluent Interfaces". Fluent interfaces are best described as way of chaining methods of an object together. By having a method return a reference to the object itself, return $this; you chain methods together like this:

$this->methodOne()->methodTwo()->methodThree();

The point of using fluent interfaces is simple; to make your code easier to read (and in the end also easier to maintain). My interest has been triggered by the articles Júlio Pontes has been posting on the All Together As A Whole website. A community initiative to gather community developers together. A full list of the articles written by Júlio can be found at the end of this article.

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eZ Publish News

Written by Robin Muilwijk Monday, 02 November 2009 20:00

Book Review
Just the other day I received my review copy of a new book titled "eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step". Packt Publishing contacted me a few weeks ago about this upcoming release and asked me to review this book. I'll hope to read through it in one or two weeks and I will post my review on our blog here.

eZ Publish Community Portal
I just read on twitter that the new Community Portal of eZ Publish is online. It looks promising, giving the Community a more prominant place in there site structure. Congrats to eZ Publish with the launch.

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