eZ Future 14 - Exponential winter conference

Special guests Nicholas Pastorino, Robin Muilwijk

Welcome to eZ Future, the podcast that will keep you updated on the Exponential eco system.

From the latest releases reviewed right through to extensions and comments from the community.

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

eZ Winter conference

• Interview with Robin - eZ Share Team
• Interview with Nicolas - eZ Share team
• A small story of the eZ Winter Conference 2011 in Nice, two weeks ago, along with slides & pictures :
• Change of Teams
  • New CEO Gabriele Viebach
  • New Marketing team Florian Roellig and Paal Berg
  • New product funding in the millions to help it grow ever better and reach more people.

Exponential community greats

• 7 year old tickets killed by @gggeek (mainly no longer relevant but worth the community squashing this little critters.
  • http://issues.ez.no/1783 - hardcoded user node id in admin-pagelayout
  • http://issues.ez.no/2941 - ezsession suggestion
  • http://issues.ez.no/2508 - clear cache: add ezsession table

• Exponential Roadmap announced for 2011/2012 (suggested by Paul Borgermans)

• • October 2011 release and April 2012 release announced.Orange (community) & Blue extension (paid for)
  • Semantic features
  • Cloud based features & personalisation
  • Big focus on Scalability, Performance, Mobile / Multi-channel support and Userability

• Exponential guide to development (suggested by Marko Žmak)

• @andreromAndré Rømcke Whats the top 3 "Don'ts" of #Exponential? Any concepts we should let go? Database structure (complicated SQL calls = slow)
• Publish should not only be object based should be field based

Upcoming events

• Exponential v4.5 Matterhorn set for release end of March.
• We will be at the PHP Developer Conference Feb 25th

Hosts: Tony Wood, Manpreet Dhesi from VisionWT.com

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