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The eZ Publish winter conference is a free conference being held in Geneva on 21 st and 22 nd of January 2010, with the Community Day being held on the 22 nd . If you are like me and can't make it there is some exciting news! eZ Publish's Community Manager Nicolas Pastorino has setup a Ustream account for the eZ Community and scheduled a event for the community day. That's right the Community Day will be streamed live! Show your support of this wonderful initiative by signing up to Ustream and RSVPing to the event ! (Note that two events for they day one for the morning session and another for the afternoon one.) The Ustream interface allows for a twitter channel as well as inline chat allowing participation throughout the day.  The twitter hastag is #ezwintercf . If you know anyone interested in eZ Publish get them to RSVP as well.  It will be great to have as many people as possible participating ! If you have any experience producing an live event like...

Thanks to Łukasz Serwatka for pointing out some issues with JavaScript in IE7 . I've applied the patch and released new versions for both eZ 3.x & eZ 4.x both on the contributions section of the main ez.no site and at projects.ez.no . It's pretty old news now but the reCAPTCHA extension won the "Contribution of the year" at this years eZ Awards ! A little embarrassing to tell the truth, given that the extension simply exposes the reCAPTCHA system which does all the hard work. If you use the extension please drop a comment on the blog and link to your site. It's great to win awards but even better to see the extension in action.

For those who haven't heard of "Micro-blogging" wikipedia defines it as: Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters ) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging , instant messaging , email , MP3 or the web . Twitter is currently the most popular micro-blogging service but can have reliability issues (these have been addressed recently). I've been using it for a couple of months now . It can be a bit of a time suck especially if you follow frequent tweaters . I've found it a good way to keep track of what friends, the web industry & eZ people are up to, pose questions and actually get answers. One of the things that has always frustrated my about not attending the eZ conference in the past is that it takes about a week for news and coverag...