Blogs

I recently had a lucky moment and was saved by a happy combination of things, including Assembla, eep, and a couple bits of dev-ops.

Last year, I switched from developing on a dual-boot Windows and Linux machine to working on a Mac. During the transition, I felt my productivity slump: not only was I missing keyboard shortcuts that I had become very accustomed to (such as Alt+←, for instance), but some native MacOS behaviour drove me crazy (like ⌘+Tab cycling through applications rather than cycling through windows of all applications). I also found the Mac terminal to be lacking, missing important utilities, and running some outdated binaries. So, vowing to prove decisively the superiority of humans over machines, I decided to make my Mac Just Work* ™  _{* Like my PC used to.}

“The goal of the eZ Community Board is to govern and coordinate community-driven activities related to eZ Platform and to other open source projects from eZ Systems and/or other members in the eZ community as well as to promote and help grow the community.”

The current Community Board has been in place since March 2016. Time to renew the Board!

2016 has seen a lot of progress. eZ Engineering has launched several releases of eZ Platform, including a Long Term Support release. The community is engaging and sharing knowledge on Slack, as well as events such as Web Summer Camp and the eZ Conference. The recently started work around eZ Platform v2 has also triggered several initiatives in our community to showcase some of the topics at hand.

This week we share news about the new eZ Platform 1.8 Fast Track release, eZ Conference 2017, a back end prototype based on Angular by CJW Network and more.

eZ Systems has raised and discussed the question of revamping the eZ Platform UI in different blog posts. We at CJW Network feel that releasing our AngularJS and REST based prototype can add some practical insights to this discussion.

Here are the minutes of the latest Community Board meeting,  February 8, 2017. Our previous minutes can be found here.

This week we share news about Admin UI Internationalization progress by engineering, threaded messaging on Slack, the complete naming history of eZ Systems releases and more news, social media and events.

Content attribute transformation or conversion in eZ Publish isn't required as often as data import or data migration, but when it is, it can take a similar amount of effort. eep simplifies the process with its flexible built-in attribute module options.

This week we share important news about 2.x refactoring and ask for your feedback on UI technology. We also have an eZ Find tutorial and more news, social media and events.

When working with eZ Find fetches, you may want to return only a specific sub-set of data for each of the search results, rather than the whole content object.

You can do that by using the eZ Find 'search' fetch's 'fields_to_return' parameter.