The Ultimate Twitter ExpressionEngine List

A week or so ago twitter made lists available to all users and they seem to be gaining in popularity. I made a few lists right away with the largest of them having about 160 people. That was my ExpressionEngine list. However I wanted to find everyone on twitter who tweets about EE so that I could have the Ultimate LIst of ExpressionEngine tweeple.

I did this by looking through all the lists that I appear on, the lists of popular EE developers on twitter that were related to EE and also by going through the wefollow under ExpressionEngine. ... Read More

Galleria - Slideshow

I’m working on a client site which has a gallery with a slideshow. I looked at a number of different jQuery plugins to run this and finally settled on galleria (though I originally rejected it)

At first I was struggling with getting the large image to display when the page is initially loaded. I would get all the thumbnails but the large image would only display on clicking the thumbnail. I resolved this with an ExpressionEngine conditional. I’m using FF matrix to run the gallery along with nGen file field and a checkbox field. The checkbox ... Read More

createsean.ca

Yesterday I finally got off my butt and purchased http://createsean.ca which now parks on top of http://createsean.com—Now when I return back to Canada I will have a .ca domain. Not sure how important this is to get local traffic in Canada, but it can’t hurt.

Was having some trouble purchasing this domain as I live overseas and their are restrictions on ownership of .ca domains. I meet the requirements being a Canadian citizen, but I think my ip was causing some trouble. I contacted live support at namecheap and spent some time chatting and ... Read More

Field Frame Matrix - thinking out loud

I just sat down to work out the site architecture, in detail, on a site I’m about to start developing. This site has a photo gallery and I am planning on using Field Frame Matrix, ngen file field and imgsizer to make the gallery. I’ve done this several times already and it’s pretty easy to do. However what I want to do this time is make a grid of nine random photos from all available galleries. The last time I looked into this it wasn’t possible using the above method of gallery creation.

However today I took a look at the docs for field ... Read More

E-texteditor vs Notepad++

I’ve been using notepad++ as my text-editor of choice for several years now and have been relatively satisfied with it. It does everything I want, but I’ve also heard a lot of good things about e-texteditor which has “the power of textmate on windows”. I’m not a fan of Apple products but have heard so many good things about textmate that I thought I should give it a try.

Both notepad++ and etexteditor allow users to import user created bundles. This is great because I make web sites using ExpressionEngine (EE) and having EE tags color coded ... Read More

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Beta

I woke up this morning to an email inviting me to join in the ExpressionEngine 2.0 beta. This is truly a great way to start the week and I’m incredibly stoked. Unfortunately due to the NDA I cannot say more—though I will report more as soon as I am able to.