Meet ExpressionEngine 2.0 at SXSW 2009

I’m pleased to announce that our CTO Derek Jones has given the green light to have the ExpressionEngine 2.0 “alpha” accompany us to SXSW 2009.

Now, this is exciting news, but if we learned anything from last year’s SXSW its to speak plainly and avoid the hype. We’ll have laptops with the latest internal build of ExpressionEngine 2.0 installed. Essentially this is somewhere between an alpha and what we intend to release as the Developer Preview. That means you can’t take it home with...

SXSW 2009: Hang out with EllisLab

SXSW 2009 is only a few short weeks away and we’re starting to get excited. We’re doing something very different this year, something we don’t think a company usually does. We’re going to do our best to meet as many people face-to-face as possible. We’re throwing a party, holding a Community World Domination Summit, sharing a nightcap with Solspace, and offering to take you on a date (really). None of our events this year require a SXSW badge. You can skip the blog post and get straight...

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...