
The PHP Development team has recently released PHP 5.3.0. Early reports indicate there is a performance boost simply from upgrading from a previous version.
From community feedback it appears that eZ Publish using Windows is about 30% quicker with PHP 5.3.0. I decided to validate these reports and confirm the performance of eZ Publish using PHP 5.3.0 with a linux environment.
A short summary of the tests performed can be found below.

Extension that provides Nokia Lifeblog support in the eZ Publish Content Management System. Using the extension, you can produce a blog post (including photos, SMS, and text) on any Lifeblog-enabled Nokia device and post it to eZ Publish based blogs.
Fetch function for eZ publish which gives possibility to fetch weather information from weather.yahoo.com base on XML content. It takes 2 parameters, "location_code" which you can check on weather.yahoo.com pages for your region (part of URL) and "unit" which is f or c (temperature unit).
This eZ publish cronjob script moves content objects of given classes to specified container base on expire date.



