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.

User Image and WYSIWYG Editing in EE

Very cool customization screencast using three add-ons, FF Matrix, LG Replace, LG TinyMCE and imgsizer, to enable clients to drop in images with full control maintained by the developer on how things look, yet the client has control on where the images appear in the post.

Very cool—more details in the forum thread.

ExpressionEngine HowTo: FF Matrix + LG TinyMCE + imgsizer + LG Replace from AJ Penninga on Vimeo.

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

Who do/would you like to know on twitter?

I was thinking lately about twitter and how valuable it is to me as a web developer. I heard about twitter when it first came out, but thought it was stupid and just didn’t get it despite twitter being very popular with teachers who blog (my current day job). However when I made the decision to go into web development full time I tried it again as a way to connect with other web professionals. Living in South Korea it is very difficult to find other English speaking web people and I really do thrive on connecting with people in my industry. ... Read More

Launched EEforums4You

A few days ago I launched a new niche market site, EEforums4You. This site is targetting other ExpressionEngine developers who need to skin a forum to match the rest of their site. Many developers have mentioned that they do not enjoy skinning forums. While I think it is somewhat difficult I don’t find it as much of a pain in the butt as many do. Thus this site.

EEforums4You is running off of the same install of ExpressionEngine as CreateSean is and is only using one third party add-on; Solspace FreeForm to run the contact form and file ... Read More