Vision with Technology

We're hiring!

support@visionwt.com (Tony Wood) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:38:00 +0000

Things are on the up here at Vision with Technology and we’re hiring for not one, but two new job vacancies!

We’re looking for talented people to join the team in Islington, London. Head on over to our careers page and see if you, or anyone you know, fits the bill. The reasons why you should work here are pretty long too, but the biggest reason is, that despite making award winning websites, we’re nice to work with.

We're looking for:

- Business Analyst

- Office Administrator (part-time)

So hurry along and get applying. I have some amazing stories to tell you by the water cooler!

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Energy Saving Trust Website Launch

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:31:00 +0000

2011 saw Vision with Technology and the Energy Saving Trust work together to create, develop and launch...

We have a new home!

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:05:00 +0000

As we welcome in the New Year here at Vision with Technology, we will also be celebrating moving to our new home.

Over the weekend of 14th & 15th January 2012 we will be busy packing our boxes and moving across Islington to our new office, which is located minutes away from Caledonian Road station.

Take note of our new address as you may need it to get in touch with us:

Vision with Technology
United House
North Road
London
N7 9DP

Our telephone number remains the same: +44 (0)20 7354 4300.

If you have any questions about our move, please get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you into our new home soon!

Tis the season to be jolly!

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:47:00 +0000

The holiday season is now officially upon us and here at Vision with Technology, it is safe to say that we’re looking forward to 2012. It has been an incredibly busy year during which we’ve worked on some fantastic projects and next year looks set to be even more exciting.

We will be relocating to a new office just off Caledonian road early in the New Year, so once we’ve settled in feel free to pop by and check out our new surroundings. In February we will be attending the eZ Partner conference in Lisbon and in April, we’re exhibiting at the 20th Internet World show. With these and lots of other activities planned, including our 10th birthday celebrations in October it should be blast. There is no doubt we’ll have more breakfast meetings in the future to celebrate the future release of eZ Publish 4.7 and 5.0 which are both scheduled to be launched in 2012!

In 2011 our business continued to grow and we saw the appointment of a number of new faces within the team. 2012 looks to be no different with continued growth on the agenda, so watch this space.

We will leave you all by wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season, whatever you will be celebrating, enjoy the time off work and be merry...2012 is going to be special!

Planning revamping your website in 2012 or just want to bounce some ideas around?Get in touch and see how Vision with Technology can help you.

eZ Publish 4.6 launch round up

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:10:00 +0000

Last week saw the UK launch of eZ Publish 4.6 at the PPA offices in London and what a way to kick things off in the UK!

The event saw Stuart Wilkinson: Global Manager of Media and Publishing and Bertrand Maugain: Director International Business Development, host and speak at the eZ Publish 4.6 launch and explain how the new eZ London office will being recruiting for a country manager and developers to help grow the eZ ecosystem in the UK within the coming year.

The much anticipated eZ Publish 4.6 was launched with a raft of features including the App readiness with a new "Mobile Kit" and the launch of two new eZ Market Place items: eZ Recommends/YooChoose and Odoscope.

YooChoose is a recommendation engine, that tracks a users behaviour to match content and recommendations based on their browsing habits. Odoscope is an analytics module that helps you understand the traffic behavior across all web properties within the organisation - particularly if you have multiple sites you are monitoring.

Demonstrations of some of the key “Web First” features were shown including case studies of companies who are using eZ Publish to publish online first then exporting the content to their print templates.

The main focus of the launch was to highlight that you can get your content working harder for the benefit of not only the users, but advertisers too.

Vision with Technology’s own Tony Wood took to the floor to talk about Paid Content Strategies. He identified the 5 main paywall strategies that Vision with Technology have encountered over the past 9 years as eZ Publish partners and how to get them to work for you. You can view Tony’s presentation below.

Iain Adam’s of Circdata, also gave a talk on Single Customer Views and how eZ Publish and your CRM can work together to provide you with a single repository of your users behaviour to give you the fullest insight into your customers.

To learn more about the features of eZ Publish Enterprise 4.6 and how it can benefit your website, please get in touch.

Read InPublishing’s round up of the eZ Publish 4.6 launch.

Content Paywall Strategies

View more presentations from Tony Wood

Vision's 9th Birthday

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:28:00 +0000

Last month saw Vision with Technology turn 9 years old and we celebrated an incredible year the only way we know how to: by eating a 9 course meal!

Vision with Technology was founded by Tony and Helen Wood in 2002 and since its humble beginnings, the company has come a long way. We have an ever growing team and client base and our proud to be the leading provider of eZ Publish solutions within the UK.

This year has seen us develop the 'The Banker' website for the Financial Times which won the eZ Publish award for “site of the year 2011”. In addition we also delivered the high-profile Renewal Heat Premium Payment Application system for the Energy Saving Trust and developed and rolled out their new website.

As with most birthday's, we celebrated, but only after we had done a last minute deploy. We had amazing cupcakes made with little "9's" on them and had an incredible feast at Sen Nin, who happily created a custom made 9-course meal for us (a course for each year of the company) and tested our egg flipping skills. As food fatigue started to set in, we headed off to dance the night away.

With our 10th birthday next year, I better start preparing myself for a 10-course meal!

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If you’re interested in being a part of our great team then head on over to our careers page.

eZ Publish 4.6 release

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:56:00 +0000

eZ Publish Enterprise 4.6 is to be launched on Tuesday 22nd November and it has a hots of new feature. To celebrate its release, eZ Systems are holding a breakfast...

mediaPro 2011 round up

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:06:00 +0000

Last week saw people from across Europe gather for one of the best integrated marketing conferences at London's Olympia: mediaPro.

The turn out for mediaPro was fantastic, with brilliant talks and keynotes that had people queuing including: Bauer Media, Shortlist Media, Nokia, Time Out, Arsenal, Google, 02, EMI Music and our very own Random House Publishing's Good Pub Guide, to name but a few.

Over at our stand we had lots going on with eZ Systems, from demonstrations to competitions to free chocolates, we also managed to squeeze in a survey on an abacus!

Whilst at mediaPro we were also proud to announce that the latest versions of eZ Publish, 4.6 will be released on Tuesday 22nd November 2011.

mediaPro was a nice way to end our conference-packed year. We had a blast and hopefully we'll see you there next year!

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Win at mediaPro 1st

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:46:00 +0000

mediaPro 2011 is a few days away and over at our stand with eZ Publish, A75, we're giving everyone the chance to win a Kindle!

Simply visit the stand and complete our survey on “New Industry Trends”, but this is no ordinary, boring survey: there is an old fashioned twist.

Once completed, make sure we take a picture of your survey and stamp your business card before dropping it in the box for a chance of winning a Kindle. We’re giving away one a day and will announce the winners at the end of each day. Terms and Conditions apply.

If surveys aren’t really your thing, don’t despair: everyone who drops past the stand will receive a treat, whilst stocks last.

We will have demonstrations of the latest version of eZ Publish Enterprise 4.5, across the show and our client Random House Publishing’s The Good Pub Guide are speaking on Tuesday 1st November at 11:25am in the Publishing theatre on Book to Digital - Creating a Digital Brand from an Annual Guide.

If you're short on time at mediaPro, why not arrange a meeting with us? Simply email me and I'll get back to you with a confirmation.

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About mediaPro

mediaPro runs from Tuesday 1st – Wednesday 2nd November 2011 at Olympia, London. Olympia is next to Olympia tube station.

Opening times: Tuesday 1st November 2011: 10:00 - 17.00 | Wednesday 2nd November 2011: 10:00 - 17.00

Don't forget that registration for mediaPro is free and is one of the leading events for media and marketing professionals involved in digital, social and print media communications. It explores what’s changing in the industry and how the best brands and businesses are integrating their marketing communications and driving innovation.
For further information head on over to their website www.mediaproexpo.co.uk
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Terms & Conditions
1. The promoters of this competition are Vision with Technology Ltd, Aberdeen Centre, 22-24 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2EA, UK and eZ Systems AS, Klostergata 30, 3732 Skien, Norway.
2. This competition is open to UK residents aged 18 and over, excluding employees of Vision with Technology, eZ Systems, Rackspace and Demand Media, their immediate family and other persons associated with the competition. No purchase necessary.
3. 1 winner will be drawn at random from all business cards received at mediaPro at 17:00pm on both Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd November 2011 and will be notified no later than 19:00pm on the day of the draw. The prize of a Kindle ebook will be delivered within 45 days of notification.
4. Only one entry per person and entries which are illegible or incomplete will be deemed invalid. Vision with Technology Ltd's and eZ Systems AS’ decision shall be final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
7. The prize winner will be notified by email or phone and they are required to accept their prize by return email or telephone call within 5 days of notification. In the event of non-acceptance within the specified period, Vision with Technology Ltd and eZ System AS reserve the right to reallocate the prize and award it to the next randomly drawn, valid entry (and the same acceptance period, as provided under this condition, will apply).
8. Entrants agree that Vision with Technology Ltd and eZ Systems AS may keep their contact information and contact them in relation to their products and services, unless entrants state otherwise.
9. Vision with Technology Ltd and eZ Systems reserves the right to amend these terms at any time.

Energy Saving Week 2011

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:58:00 +0000

Did you know that the average UK hosuehold could save around £280 a year by simply being more energy efficient? With energy bills...

We are exhibiting at mediaPro

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:04:00 +0000

Vision with Technology is proud to announce that they will be exhibiting at mediaPro with eZ Systems, which takes...

eZ Future 17 - eZ Publish London 2011

support@visionwt.com (Tony Wood) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:52:29 +0000

Welcome to eZ Future, the podcast that will keep you updated on the eZ Publish eco system.
From the latest releases reviewed right through to extensions and comments from the community.
In the show:

eZ Future Hangout
eZ Conference London 2011 roundup
Community - latest contributions, interesting articles
Upcoming events - eZ Conference

Listen to it here: http://visionwt.podhoster.com/ or iTunes
Hosts: Tony Wood, Manpreet Dhesi from VisionWT.com
Special guests : Petri Mertanen, Robin Muilwijk, Gilles Guirand

Feedback from previous show

From Nicolas Pastorino : Sound is much better - @All : fire this podcast in background as you are working on eZ Publish, you'll get a sweet impression of hearing a BCC news report, with only live reporters, only on eZ Community, and much funnier than BBC news reports.

Twitter

Thank you to everyone who retweeted us including

Igor Vrdoljak @ivrdoljak
Robin Muilwijk @i_robin

In the Google+ Hangout

Petri Mertanan @mertanen

eZ Conference London

Wednesday night speakers event
- Sponsor ship drinks - big turnout for community, clients and partners - Rasmus (PHP Founder) there too.
Interviews Robin Muilwijk (Award winner!) - Feedback from Gilles Guirand(Award Winner)
(for once no interview with Nico) - sorry Nico
Community track - explained
Business Track - explained
Conference slides - http://london2011.ez.no/Slides & photos http://london2011.ez.no/Impressions
Conference winners http://london2011.ez.no/Awards/Awards-Winner-2011
- FT Banker - Site of the year for FT. Partner - Vision with Technology
- Odoscope - http://www.odoscope.com/eng/This-is-odoscope/Features?var=0 - Great analytics direct on your site

eZ Publish community greats (update on the last month)

Nicolas Pastorino - Launching Content in mobility with REST and eZ Publish http://www.slideshare.net/jeanvoye/nicolas-pastorino-launchingcontentinmobilitywithrestandezpublish
Great info on the Release Policy - http://share.ez.no/community-project/release-policy
2011.6 Community version release (bug fixes) http://share.ez.no/download-develop/downloads/ez-publish-community-project-2011.6/changelog-from-community-project-2011.5-to-community-project-2011.6
Geir Arne Waaler call for better ideas for books - do we need them, are there better ways of doing it. This was in response to Tony’s call for signed copies when you bought eZ subscription (back in the day). http://share.ez.no/blogs/ez/printing-books-or-going-further
Community minutes - http://share.ez.no/blogs/share.ez.no-team/2011-july-11th-meeting-minutes

Thanks to: eZ Systems the makers of eZ Publish (ez.no) and Vision with Technology (VisionWT.com)

We are in Education Business magazine

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:15:59 +0000

If you've seen the latest copy of Education Business magazine, you may have noticed that we were in their ICT section with Vision Discover!

We had a profile highlighting how eLearning can be easy learning with Vision Discover, an eLearning platform based on eZ Publish, which gives you the flexibility to a content management system to help keep all eLearning up to date and relevant.

Education Business magazine provides comprehensive information for all within the Education sector and goes to over 9200 organisations! If you haven't had a chance to see us in there, you can view the magazine online at www.educationbusinessuk.net or read our article online.

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FT The Banker wins eZ Publish site of the year

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:29:58 +0000

The Financial Times, The Banker website won the prestigious site of the year at the eZ awards 2011 in London...

eZ Publish conference 2011 round up

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:50:10 +0000

So another eZ Publish conference is over and what a year it was - possibly one of the best eZ Publish conferences ever!

The conference started with a bang at our meet the speakers drinks at Carbon. We were joined by, Greg McAvoy-Jensen, Simon Wan, Maxime Thomas, Bjorn Dieding, Gilles Guirand, Tony Wood, Martin Bauer, Paul Borgermans and Rasmus Lerdorf to name a few.

The first day of the conference saw Gaberiele Viebach kick off proceedings with her keynote "eZ Publish enables the next generation content business model - modern platform characteristics". Then people had to decide which track to attend for their next session: business or developer/community?

The talks on offer this year were some of the best the eZ conference has seen. On the first day of the conference we had talks from, Daniel Kraft from fridge & company tackling "Beautiful Dialogues in a Social World", Derick Rethans and "Profiling PHP Applications", Pete Dodds from the Financial Times talking about "Paid content at Financial Times", Brian Garvey from Rackspace discussing “OpenStack”, Simon Wan from Wall Street Journal in Asia leading a keynote on "The web strategy of the Wall Street Journal in Asia", and Paul Borgermans"taking eZ Find beyond search", to name a few.

The evening of the Thursday 16th June saw the legendary eZ Publish awards ceremony. It was held at Milbank Tower and guests were welcomed to a cocktail reception before the awards ceremony took place. Well done to all whom were nominated and a special hurrah to all the winners.

Blogger of the year
Ivo Lukac, Netgen (Croatia)

Tutorial of the year
Advanced development with eZ Find by Gilles Guirand (France)

Contribution of the year
SQLIImport by Jerome Vieilledent (France)

Community member of the Year
Robin Muilwijk (Netherlands)

Solution of the Year
Odoscope by Odoscope (Germany)

Rising star of the year
07 Web (Norway)

eZ Publish Enterprise Sales Person of the Year
Saurab Bhargava from Roundarch (USA)

Business Partner of the year
Orange Business Services (France)

The Digital Media Website Award
The Wall Street Journal Asia: jp.wsj.com (Japan)

Site of the Year
Financial Times, The Banker (UK)

The Honorary award
Greg McAvoy-Jensen, Granite Horizon (USA)

Once the awards ceremony was over, everyone headed to the after party which had some breath taking views of London. Once the party was over at Milbank Tower, most people headed back to Carbon to party until we were thrown out in the early hours of Friday morning.

Margaret Ann Dowling, Managing Director from Marquard Media Hungary, had a big job on her hands presenting the following morning's keynote, "The challenge of small and medium sized publishers : managing the content of many brands. The example of Playboy and Instyle at Marquard Media", but she did a great job and the added prize of spotting the mistake within her presentation with the winner getting a trip to the Playboy Mansion in Hungary ensured everyone started the morning on top form.

Again, Friday had an amazing line up of speakers including, Rasmus Lerdorf talking about "PHP in 2011", Marc Czieslick from Hyperload Design speaking about "From intranet via extranet to internet-projects in the financial industry", round-two for the community flash talks and not forgetting our ever own Tony Wood, talking about "lessons learnt whilst working with eZ Publish for 9 years and the results will benefit everyone" and Martin Bauer giving one of the last sessions of the day on "Scrum, The Financial Times & eZ Publish".

The conference closed with a Hackathon in the developer/community track and a break-out session for business partners.

A big thank you to the eZ conference organisation team and our co sponsors Rackspace, for helping make the eZ conference & awards 2011 here in London a blast!

I think I managed to get about 3 hours worth of sleep from Wednesday through to the end of Friday, but I wouldn't change a thing.... roll on next year...

Don't forget, you can vote for where 2012's conference is held (hint: Vegas) and give eZ your feedback on this year's conference. To re-live some of the memories from this years event, head on over to our eZ conference 2011 gallery.

Join in on the conversation from this years talks at Joind and give your feedback to the speakers.

Read what Daniel Kraft from ifridge & company had to say about the eZ conference and Nicolas Pastrino, eZ community director. To see videos from the awards ceremony, head on over to Alexandre's blog.

Make sure you listen to the next installement of eZ Future, we have interviews with Gilles and Robin!

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Webinar : Thursday 9th June @ 11am

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:08:33 +0000

Vision with Technology have teamed up with eZ Systems to host an eZ Publish 4.5 webinar on Thursday 9th June 2011 at 11am - 12pm for current eZ Publish users and those considering using eZ Publish Enterprise 4.5.

The webinar will focus on:
    •    an overview of eZ Publish Enterprise 4.5 including workflows
    •    exploring the multichannel avenue of communicating content
    •    the benefits of using eZ Publish within businesses

This is a must attend webinar if you are using a previous version of eZ Publish and considering upgrading, or are simply thinking of using eZ Publish and want to know the new features within eZ Publish 4.5.

When: Thursday 9th June 2011 @ 11:00am - 12:00pm GMT
Hosts: Bård Farstad, eZ Systems & Tony Wood, Vision with Technology

eZ Publish Enterprise 4.5 has the following new features:

    •    Enhanced product functionality
    •    Strengthen serviceability for enterprise customers
    •    Improved, extensible REST API support of external client implementations and mobile solutions.
    •    Unique parallel publishing support
    •    Intuitive front-end editing
    •    Efficient user registration workflow
    •    eZ Market where you can purchase extensions
    •    eZ certified supported partner extensions are now available

Alongside previous features such as the online image editor (crop, pixelate, rotate etc), support for mobile devices, RSS support, content notifications, keyword tagging, all URLs are SEO friendly, scheduled publishing and expiration of content, blog, forums & comment, HTML5 / Flash video integration, front end editing, multi-lingual support and workflows to name but a few.

eZ Publish Enterprise 4.5 is your one stop shop for your website. Register for the webinar now.

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eZ conference

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:20:57 +0000

So it's only a matter of weeks away, the eZ conference and awards are being held in London over the 16th & 17th June at the Cumberland hotel with the awards ceremony on the evening of the 16th June at the Milbank Tower.

We are proud to be global sponsors for the 9th eZ conference and awards show. The eZ conference and awards ceremony has grown each year attracting the best in the industry to speak, awarding the best eZ websites (which some of our clients have won a few times) and recognising those who have contributed to the eZ ecosystem.

The full agenda has been released and our founder & CEO, Tony Wood, is presenting a keynote on Friday 17th June at 14:00pm - 14:45pm on lessons learnt whilst working with eZ Publish for 9 years and the results will benefit everyone, but we also have our ever own Scrum master and programme manager, Martin Bauer, speaking about Scrum, The Financial Times & eZ Publish in the Community track on Friday 17th June at 14:50pm - 15:35pm.

But that's not all! We're hosting a meet the speakers drink on Wednesday 15th June from 18:30pm at Carbon bar, next to the Cumberland hotel. This is a chance to mingle with your fellow peers and meet some of the speakers who will be presenting at the eZ conference, whilst having a free drink on us. Make sure you get there early - once our allocation run's out, the bar turns into a cash bar.

To help those who are new to London, we've popped some cool places to check out and things to do whilst here during the conference, over on the eZ conference microsite.

If you haven't registered yet, do it now. It's shaping up to be one of the best years so far. Hopefully we'll see you at the conference!

Vision Update Podcast #2 - May

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:01:18 +0000

Welcome to the Vision with Technology Business Update.

This is a podcast specifically created for business professionals who want to find out the latest Vision and eZ Publish in the most efficient format.

Listen to it here: http://visionwt.podhoster.com/

Highlights

Vision News
eZ Publish Software news
eZ Publish company news
Vision training news
Upcoming events

Vision News

- Featured new sites

http://www.nrpn-online.com/ for the Financial Times
http://nestwales.org.uk/cym/ for the Energy Saving Trust

- Vision at PHP Developer Conference

550 of the best PHP developers
3 talks including references to eZ Publish

- Vision at Internet World

Vision flew the eZ Publish flag in London for eZ Publish
People interested in the fact the eZ is perfect for publishing
Demos by Marguerite from Demand Media for Pluck
Demos by Bertrand from eZ

eZ Publish software news

- Community Version of eZ Publish 4.5 available

http://share.ez.no/blogs/community-project-board/ez-publish-community-project-2011.5-available-now
The second build of eZ Publish Community Project is available now. Releases every month so far 2011.4 and 2011.5.

eZ Systems company news

- eZ Publish Conference - Vision are Global SponsorsJune 16th & 17th at the Cumberland Hotel w/ awards at Milbank Tower on the evening of the 16th.
- Agenda is out - speakers include, Paul Borgermans (taking eZ find beyond search), Bjorn Dieding (eZ Publish cluster on the Amazon cloud), Pete Dodds (FT - Paid content at FT), Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP, PHP in 2011), Nicolas Pastorino (eZ Community : Innovation & open source inside), Simon Wan (The web strategy of the Wall Street Journal in Asia) to name a few.
- On Twitter today (Thursday) between 11am & 12pm CET (10-11am GMT), there will be a huge discount available for tickets, you have to Tag the tweet #ezconf
First sale happened this morning where you could get 40% off. (http://share.ez.no/ez-conference-2011-london-june-16th-17th/crazy-twitter-sales)- Next sale scheduled very soon!
- Vision with Technology : We’re holding a meet the speakers drink on Wednesday 15th June evening at Carbon (next to the Cumberland), free bar, until our allocation runs out - get there early, from 6:30pm onwards.

Vision Training news

- eZ Publish Free Overview and Training Day in London - April

We had a great turn out for the eZ demo and training day last month at the RE hotel Shoreditch.
Demo by Bertrand from eZ on the benefits and features of v4.5
Training be Nicolas from eZ Community as an introduction and helping troubleshot common issues faced whilst developing with eZ Publish.
Pencilling in another one when v4.6 comes out during Autumn.

- New eZ Publish 4.5 training videos- Differences between eZ Publish 4.0 and 4.5
- Administration overview
- Content structure
- Edit an article

Upcoming events

eZ Publish Summer Conference June 16/17

eZ Future Podcast 16 - Busy man show

support@visionwt.com (Tony Wood) — Fri, 27 May 2011 08:02:01 +0000

Welcome to eZ Future, the podcast that will keep you updated on the eZ Publish eco system.
From the latest releases reviewed right through to extensions and comments from the community.

In the show:

eZ Publish Community Version 2011.5
eZ Training day March 2011 - London
Internet World - London eZ Publish in full effect
eZ Conference
Community - latest contributions, interesting articles
Upcoming events - eZ Conference

Listen to it here: http://visionwt.podhoster.com/

Hosts: Tony Wood, Manpreet Dhesi from VisionWT.com
Special guests Nicholas Pastorino, Bertrand Maugain

Feedback from previous show

http://share.ez.no/forums/discussions/ez-future-15-ez-publish-4.5-matterhorn-ahoy/(order)/latest

From Tony -
“Thanks to everyone who mentioned the low sound level on this show. We have found the problem. No excuses - It was me... Sorry!
We will ensure the levels are higher next time. I promise or I will have to write out "Check the sound levels" a thousand times.”

From Nicolas Pastorino
I liked this one a lot too, keep-up !
We start discerning clear characters since you guys resumed eZ Future, specially since Ole Morten is joining regularly, you should keep it like this, a sort of theatersports kinda thing
A few replies :

The first Community Project build should arrive soon, it is intensively being worked on at the moment,
The new feature regarding User Registration is that it now is an operation, in the eZ Publish sense of it : one can plug-in workflow events before and/or after user registration, opening for non-hackish implementation of business logic. Long-awaited feature, extremely useful !
eZ Market : lots of extensions coming-up, while only CJW Newsletter & Varnish at the time of writing. This eZ Market is indeed a fantastic opportunity for Partners (both Business and Community) to commercialize their work, their preferred extension, and make money out of it. A very nice business model.
About sun in London : i must confess last time i swinged by it WAS actually sunny. All Londonians were extensively bragging about this, which set me thinking...
BUT, the eZ Conference will be flooded with sun, this is part of the plan.

@everyone : you should really listen to this podcast. I learned that i was wanted, hugged and alive. And there is a ransom.
Cheers !

Community Version of eZ Publish 4.5 available

http://share.ez.no/blogs/community-project-board/ez-publish-community-project-2011.5-available-now
The second build of eZ Publish Community Project is available now. The naming scheme was adjusted from 4.2011 to 2011.5, and will be continued on this base : yyyy.mm. All you need to know :

eZ Find now includes Solr 3.1
eZ JSCore : the javascript libraries were updated :
YUI : from 3.3.0 and 2.8.1 to 3.3.0 and 2.9.0
JQuery : from 1.4.3 to 1.5.2
JSMin : from 1.1.1 to 1.1.1+

eZ Training Day - London

We had a great turn out for the eZ demo and training day last month at the RE hotel Shoreditch.
Interview with Nico (him from the community) (5 mins)
Demo by Bertrand from eZ on the benefits and features of v4.5
Training be Nicolas from eZ Community as an introduction and helping troubleshot common issues faced whilst developing with eZ Publish.
Pencilling in another one when v4.6 comes out during Autumn.
Interview with Bertrand Maugain (Global Partner Manager) (4 mins)

Internet World

Vision flew the eZ Publish flag in London for eZ Publish
Lots of people interested in the fact the eZ is brilliant for publishing
Lots of demos by Bertrand from eZ
Talk about eZ Publish and eLearning by Tony Wood
Lots of chocolate and some juggling... Please send your juggling photos from the show please :)

eZ Conference and details

June 16th & 17th at the Cumberland Hotel w/ awards at Milbank Tower on the evening of the 16th.
Agenda is out - speakers include, Paul Borgermans (taking eZ find beyond search), Bjorn Dieding (eZ Publish cluster on the Amazon cloud), Pete Dodds (FT - Paid content at FT), Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP, PHP in 2011), Nicolas Pastorino (eZ Community : Innovation & open source inside), Simon Wan (The web strategy of the Wall Street Journal in Asia) to name a few.
On Twitter today (Thursday) between 11am & 12pm CET (10-11am GMT), there will be a huge discount available for tickets, you have to Tag the tweet #ezconf
First sale happened this morning where you could get 40% off. (http://share.ez.no/ez-conference-2011-london-june-16th-17th/crazy-twitter-sales)
Next sale scheduled very soon!
Vision with Technology : We’re holding a meet the speakers drink on Wednesday 15th June evening at Carbon (next to the Cumberland), free bar, until our allocation runs out - get there early, from 6:30pm onwards.

eZ Publish community greats (update on the last month)

eZ Publish Community - Release cycle - http://share.ez.no/blogs/community-project-board/rfc-ez-publish-community-project-release-policy
eZ Publish 4.2011 Community (4.5) with Nginx and PHP-FPM on Debian 6- http://share.ez.no/learn/ez-publish/ez-publish-4.2011-community-4.5-with-nginx-and-php-fpm-on-debian-6-squeeze
Advanced development with eZ Find - part 2 : Indexing additional fields in Solr - http://share.ez.no/learn/ez-publish/advanced-development-with-ez-find-part-2-indexing-additional-fields-in-solr
Creating eZ Publish Objects in PHP - http://share.ez.no/learn/ez-publish/creating-ez-publish-objects-in-php
Lots of Websites, One eZ Publish Installation - Adding Siteaccesses in eZ Publish - http://share.ez.no/learn/ez-publish/lots-of-websites-one-ez-publish-installation-adding-siteaccesses-in-ez-publish
Adding custom security policy limitations to your modules - http://share.ez.no/learn/ez-publish/adding-custom-security-policy-limitations-to-your-modules
Get to know other community members on Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=2991385&gid=2759&commentID=40186585&trk=view_disc

Upcoming events

eZ Conference 16th & 17th June + Meet the speakers drink 15th June

Thanks to: eZ Systems the makers of eZ Publish (ez.no) and Vision with Technology (VisionWT.com)

Internet World 2011 Round Up

support@visionwt.com (Manpreet Dhesi) — Thu, 19 May 2011 13:56:09 +0000

So Internet World is done for another year and what a year it was! You couldn't go to a stand and not get something free; strawberries and cream, smoothies, espressos, champagne, cup cakes and us with our treat size chocolate bars - let's just say I can feel a lot of evening runs coming on to work it all off!

The turn out for Internet World 2011 was great and with brilliant seminars and keynotes from the likes of Google, Facebook, Barclays, The Guardian, Rackspace, Institute of Direct Marketing, Sticky Content and many more, the queues for each session are the longest I've ever seen at Internet World and rightly so.

Over at our stand we had lots going on, from demonstrations to competitions, juggling and general laughter - we even managed to squeeze in a speaking session on the first day from our CEO, Tony Wood on turning corporate learning into discovery using eLearning tools. If you missed this session, Indigo Papa will be re-running a summary of it on their site soon.

Across the three day event, we had eZ Publish, Rackspace and Pluck on our stand for our drop in clinics, where people asked how we worked together and saw the benefits of a full service offering from product to hosting. We also had an astonishing number of entrants for the Kindle and consultancy prizes, that we had to increase the amount we were giving away! We now giving away two Kindles and three one hour consultancy slots; we have picked our winners and will be in touch with them shortly.

As with previous years, I had a blast at Internet World and hopefully I'll see you next year, 24th - 26th April at Earls Court 2, London.

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