We have just published an article titled "Building mobile browser and hybrid applications with eZ Publish". This is part one of a two-part article series about mobile development with the eZ Publish CMS. This first article focuses on creating a mobile website and extending it to be a hybrid mobile application.

With the recent launch of eZ Publish's new Community Portal, it is time to call for all designers to take out their pencils and paper. It is time for a design contest!

The release of eZ Publish 4.2.0 included the stable release of the ezjscore extension. ezjscore enhances the eZ Publish ECMS by providing a framework for Ajax-based applications and facilitating development with powerful JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and YUI. My great colleague André Rømcke and I sat down together to write an article covering the details of ezjscore, with documentation and code examples.

I have noticed in the past few months an explosion of new media sites built using eZ Flow. What is eZ Flow you may ask? In short, it is an extension created for the eZ Publish Enterprise Open Source Content Management System. The eZ Flow extension enables editors to build complex page layouts and pre-plan the publication schedule to ensure a constant flow of rich content. eZ Flow brings modern portal management possibilities to eZ Publish.

Some very useful developer functionality has been added to eZ Publish in the past two major releases (4.1 and 4.2). I have compiled a list of improvements, mainly related to fetch functions and INI settings, that eZ Publish developers could benefit from on a day-to-day basis.