First Party Add-ons, Train-ee, Newism Tutorial & Contest

While not sexy, the title is certainly descriptive, so let’s dig in!

Today we are pleased to report that 90%+ of all the First Party ExpressionEngine Add-ons in the Library have been converted from 1.x to 2.x. The primary goal of this task is to give EE developers plenty of 2.0 add-on conversion examples to jump start their own conversion process when the Developer Preview is released. Of course, it also ensures that any First Party Add-on you may have been relying on in 1.x is also...

Marcus Neto, Seth Godin’s Think Remarkable

“with this group you never know what is next. Julie Anixter is driving the project and she is great and thinking up new ideas. Fortunately I know ExpressionEngine can handle it all.”

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“Formal” Control Panel and UI Review Begins

This week marked the start of the “formal” internal review of the Control Panel code and the UI by the entire Development team. Here’s the basic outline of the process.

Derek Allard works with Robin and Pascal to setup a review plan and then Robin and Pascal work out which parts they want to take. Every link must be clicked, every option changed, every command tried, every variation tested… you get the idea. Does the link go where its supposed to? Does the feature work as intended?...

Welcome Jacob Graf and John Donovan!

I have the great pleasure to introduce to you our two new Technical Support Specialists, Jacob Graf and John Donovan.

Jacob comes to us with experience running his own web development business in which he has used ExpressionEngine extensively.

John joins with a strong knowledge of design and has been a great force in helping the community get their ExpressionEngine sites flash-enabled.

The addition of two new faces on our team brings a great deal of benefit to the ExpressionEngine...

ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 Released

ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 has just been released, a security and maintenance release and is recommended for all users.  We want all of our users to know that we’re committed to continuing to support 1.x even as our efforts are thrust fully into 2.0.  ExpressionEngine 1.x is a platform you can continue to use and rely on now and in the future.  To that end, at this late cycle in its life come two new extension hooks that will give even greater power to third party developers wanting to do...

Lealea Design, Lea Alcantara

“I've always said that ExpressionEngine is a designer's best friend because you can make ExpressionEngine conform to YOUR design, not the other way around.”

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Pascal Kriete, Code Mechanic

You may have noticed at the end of last week we posted a new job opening for another TSS.  Quite simply, we had to fill the position being vacated by Pascal Kriete, who is joining the development team full time as a new Code Mechanic.

Pascal came to us originally via the CodeIgniter community, where he frequently used his coding chops to freely help other developers, and was no slouch in helping identify and fix bugs and tune new features.  More recently he has spent some time as a...