Migrating Matrix & Ngen file fields to EE2 Matrix and native file field

Long time no blog. I’m back and planning on writing more frequently here.

I recently upgraded my personal family site with MSM from ExpressionEngine 1.6.9 to 2.1.3 and as most EE devs know this is a major upgrade with a lot of potential for incompatibilities due to the complete restructuring that went into the 2.x branch of ExpressionEngine. To ... Read More

Banner Advertising With ExpressionEngine

I’m currently building a magazine site for a client which will have advertising in the sidebar. To implement this advertising I used the method detailed in the Subvert.ca blog How to build your own banner advertising system with ExpressionEngine and Google Analytics This was really easy to implement. However I wanted to do a little more.

Since ... Read More

Breadcrumbs in ExpressionEngine

I’m working on a site and setting up breadcrumbs with ExpressionEngine. Since I’m not using the structure module which as I understand it has a plugin tag I had to figure out a way to do this myself. With a little google help I found a plugin called Crumbee which got me a large part of the way there.

The problem was that I ended up with a lot of ... 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 ... Read More