EzSystems released the first release candiate for the 3.9 series of their award winning content management system. This release features a wealth of valuable features, many of which were requested and implemented by the eZpublish community.

Also included is a fantastic new default theme (shown on the right), and a nice standard website package which is available during the installation which makes setting up a simple site using eZpublish that much simpler.

The HedgeCo Website creation team is currently in the final stages of rolling out two websites using the eZpublish 3.8 series. These websites will be launched in this month, so be sure to check back here so you don”t miss the launch party!

We are evaluating this new release, and hope to integrate the new features into our products so that our clients can benefit from what looks like a great new release from the eZpublish team. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!

This is a short announcement to welcome Aaron Connelly to the HedgeCo Hedge Fund Websites team.

AaronC (founder of ACJavascripts.com and Cytech-Services.com) has been working with us for the past few months providing his expert services to help with the influx of work which we have had. However, due to the increased in business preceeding the official launch of HedgeCoWebsites.com we are taking him on full time. AaronC will be working in our deployment and support department, and will be working with our clients in the final phases of deploying their Hedge Fund websites.

We look forward to working with AaronC, and if we”re lucky we might even convince him to drop in here to blog every now and then!
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This was my first Zend Conference and I enjoyed it immensely. The topic was “Creating Advanced PHP Applications”, and the two talks that I presented were “Upgrading to PHP5 with Style” and “Planning a PHP5 Rewrite”.

This year ZendCon was held in the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California. After driving down from LA with Jon Bauer, I called ahead to make sure that we meet up with some of the other guys for the obligatory pre-conference dinner.

As always, for regular speakers the conferences are more about meeting up with other developers than the conference sessions themselves. This being my first US-based PHP conference I was happy to finally meet up with some of my friends, many of whom I”m communicated with over the last few years but hadn”t had the opportunity to meet in person. One of the highlights of this conference was the extensive expo floor and the wealth of companies that were exhibiting.
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Welcome to our shiney new HedgeCo Websites (HCW) blog!Over the last year of operating HedgeCo Websites we”ve found that the key to successful projects is a clear and informal communication. Whether you are an existing HCW client, a hedge fund manager interested in our platform, or a technologist/designer who is interested in our technology we are interested in communicating with you, and hearing any comments that you have.In this spirit, we”ve set up this blog to create an easy way to let all our visitors stay up-to-date with what’’s going on at the HCW HQ, and provide an informal forum for interaction between the users of our products and the HCW team.Following are some of the topices that you”re likely to find discussed here:

• Annoucements of newly completed sites to the HCW family
• New feature annoucements
• Clarifications regarding Frequently Asked Questions
• Posts discussing some of the project management issues which we encounter
• Interviews with developers, project managers
• Conference / Event news
• HCW News
• Links to other sites of interest
• … and any other fun topics that we feel like blogging about.

If you are new to blogging please visit the pages that we have set up about blogging, so that you can familiarize yourselves with the medium.Let the blogging begin.

A blog (or weblog) is an journal which is frequently updated by one or more authors (bloggers). The entries are displayed in reverse chronological order.

Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb (”to blog,” meaning “to edit one’’s weblog or to post to one’’s weblog”).

In the last 2 years blogging has picked up steam in the corporate world. Market research shows that 35 percent of large companies plan to institute corporate Weblogs in 2006. According to the research, combined with the existing deployed base of 34 percent, nearly 70 percent of all corporate website operators will have implemented corporate blogs by the end of 2006.

More than 5% of the Fortune 500 companies blog externally.