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.

Developing EE Sites on Windows

I wrote an article for EE_Insider titled Developing EE Sites on Windows. In the article I discuss the programs I use in my development process including Xampp, Notepad++, WebDrive, IE Tester, IE web developer toolbar, IE debug bar, and Firebug. If you like the article leave a comment.

ExpressionEngine Tips

Ryan over at EEinsider has started a new feature where users can submit various EEinsider tips to share with the community.

Ryan has launched this new section on his site with a contest:

Over the next two weeks, I’m going to award a free EE Code T-shirt to five different people who contribute tips. In order to qualify you have to add at least 3 tips and one of those has to be deemed (by me) to be excellent and helpful. Winners will be notified by email.

I’ve already submitted four tips: Dynamic="off", EE Code in CSS stylesheet, Add ... Read More

ExpressionEngine Professionals Network

CreateSean has just been accepted into the ExpressionEngine Professionals network. I am of course very excited and proud to be a member. I’ve added a new badge in the footer of this site as well as in my forum signature on the ExpressionEngine forums. These are quick jobs and I’ll probably change them in the next few days.

The footer badge:

My forum signature badge:

A new Venture

Yesterday I purchased a new domain with the purposes of building a site targetting a niche market in the ExpressionEngine community. Many EE developers do not enjoy skinning the forums to match the rest of the site. I however do not seem to have much trouble doing it and have already done a couple of jobs for big name ExpressionEngine developers in the EE Pro Network.

After talking with Micheal Boyink via email about various aspects of this venture and some careful thought, I’ve decide to go forward. The new site will be modelled on the ... Read More