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Friday Round Up Post. May 25 Edition.

Another busy week in the ExpressionEngine community! Here’s this week’s round up. Remember, to add your news, simply add it to the related thread, or tag it with #FRUP on Twitter.

Add-ons

• Isaac Raway released the ProForm Catchall Field Driver for ProForm. The ProForm Catchall field is a field driver for ProForm that adds support for handling arbitrary fields posted to a form. When you don’t know which fields are needed ahead of time, ProForm Catchall comes to the rescue. Isaac also...

Friday Round Up Post. May 18 Edition.

Welcome to another #FRUP. Be sure to add your news by means of the related forum thread, or #FRUP on Twitter.

Add-ons

• Michael Rog released Email-from-Template 1.4.1, now with global variables, HTML entity decoding, and template logging.

• Michael Rog released Category Sorted Entries 2.3.0 ($), which fixes a bug that prevented showing entries from multiple channels.

• Made By Hippo released LibrarEE 1.0.4 ($), featuring config overrides and bug fixes.

• John Morton updated Pic Puller for...

EE Podcast Annual Survey

Lea Alcantara & Emily Lewis have published their Annual ExpressionEngine Listener Survey. Make sure to take 10 minutes and help them out by filling in the short survey. Plus you will be entered to win a very rare EEPodcast T-Shirt.

Also, make sure to listen to this week’s Podcast. James and Wes talk about the recent EE Version 2.5 update, the EU Cookie Module, the modularity of EE and more.

The Cookie Consent Module & EU Cookie Legislation

In November of 2009, the European Parliament issued EU Directive 2009/136/EC, an amendment to several prior directives concerning data protection and electronic privacy rights.  Of primary concern to this article were changes regarding the storing and accessing of personal data on a user’s device via cookies [1].  The amendment changed such storage to require opt-in rather than opt-out permission from end users.  EU member states were supposed to implement laws in accordance with the...

Making Sites Fly with Varnish

There comes a time in an ExpressionEngine site’s life when it needs to scale. The demand for it’s dynamically-generated pages becomes too much; you can throw more servers at the problem or tweak the ones you’ve got, but that has its own scaling issues.

Or, there’s Varnish Cache.

The idea of caching is familiar: why waste resources regenerating the same content from scratch on each page view? But Varnish takes it a bit further by stepping in before the request even makes it to...

#FRUP 2.5. May 11 Edition.

Here’s this week’s round up post. Remember to add your news via #FRUP on Twitter, or this forum thread.

Add-ons

• Michael Rog updated Show Me My Assets! to 1.1.1, which now expands subfolders in the Assets file manager and Assets file field.

• Nine Four wrote an add-on to return and entry ID based off a given letter. Say for instance you wanted to show all entries that start with the letters “A, B, or C”, this add-on will return the relevant entry IDs for passing into a channel entires...

New How-To Video: Getting Started with ExpressionEngine

We have a new “How-To” video for your viewing! For those of you just getting started with ExpressionEngine, or those who’d like a refresher on the basic concepts of ExpressionEngine, this is the video for you.

It brings the Getting Started with ExpressionEngine 2 page from our documentation to life. Enjoy!

Remember, we have a variety of “How-To” videos covering other aspects of ExpressionEngine on our Vimeo page.