Welcome to 2009, New EE Resources

I hope everyone had a great holiday break. We got some much needed rest and are re-energized for 2009.

On January 1st Derek Jones flew into Bend Oregon for our yearly company review with Rick. It was a grand time but it also means we worked all weekend and came back to overflowing, post-holiday inboxes. They were subsequently conquered and we’re officially ready to get this new year under way.

There are two house cleaning issues I need to mention. Over the weekend we decided to ...

So Long Official Forum Announcement Forum

Forum Regulars may have noticed that the Official EllisLab Announcement Forum is gone. It was getting redundant to post things in the EE Blog, have the discussion in the Forums, and then post it again in the Official Announcement Forum. For the few of you who may have relied on it as your news source, please follow the EE Blog instead. That’s what it’s here for.

University of Georgia

“When I finally did start to explore ExpressionEngine’s features, extensions, and capabilities, it was a dream come true.”

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Agile Records, Erskine Design Interview

We are very pleased to introduce Agile Records, the ExpressionEngine 2.0 Example Site created by Erskine Design (they just launched their redesign).

We’re not going to go into a lot of detail about the Example Site yet or provide more screenshots at this point. After all, we want to keep some things a surprise. But we did ask Simon Collison and Greg Wood to give some insight into Agile Records development.

Why a record label?

Colly: It was Jamie Pittock’s idea, and we all agreed. ...

Devot:ee’s 1st Annual AcademEE Award Winners

Devot:ee is Ryan’s (Masuga Design) upcoming site dedicated to “everything ExpressionEngine”. Devot:ee hasn’t officially launched yet but if you follow @devot_ee on Twitter you can get updates, such as The First Annual AcademEE Awards.

This year we came up with a few basic categories and picked the winners ourselves. The nominating and voting process for the 2008 awards was entirely not fair and subject to our whim, but next year we would like to get you involved in nominations and ...

2.0 Progress, 1.5 Left

Its the 19th and we promised a 2.0 update. Work on 2.0 continues to progress smoothly. There are now 1 and a half 1.x modules to convert to 2.0. One of them will be fairly straight forward, the other is tricky because we’ve set a new direction for it and we’re working through the best way to implement it.

Since we’ve given ourselves some extra time to round 2.0 out we also added a major new feature to the Control Panel. We’re not ready to say what it is yet except that it works great ...

Scott Williamson, Intuit Labs

“Another surprise is how ExpressionEngine doesn't mess with your code... combined with powerful ExpressionEngine tags you can crank out an unbelievable site in record time. ”

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