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Greg Aker
Greg Aker

So Long, Farewell PHP 4

Nov 11, 2010      Permalink Discuss

Our next ExpressionEngine release will mark the end of PHP 4 support in ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter. For most of you, this should be a non-issue. PHP 4 was originally released in May of 2000 and reached End of Life in December of 2007.  If you think about it, PHP 4 is to us what Internet Explorer 6 is to you.

We will be requiring PHP 5.1.6. The easiest way to see if your current host meets the requirements is to download and test using the Server Wizard. If your host does not meet...

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Greg Aker
Greg Aker

Will the Real SAEF Please Stand Up?

Oct 21, 2010      Permalink Discuss

It’s no secret that the release of ExpressionEngine 2 revealed some limitations in our current Stand Alone Entry Form (SAEF). In large part, this is due to our new approach to custom fields and the resulting variety and potential complexity of new field types. Believe me, we are as frustrated with it as you are.

The current approach just isn’t cutting it and putting band-aids on the code isn’t a ‘fix’ we find acceptable. We also have to acknowledge that Add-ons have been...

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Derek Jones
Derek Jones
President/CTO, EllisLab, Inc.

Acknowledge, Identify, React

Sep 30, 2010      Permalink Discuss

I’d like to take a moment to speak about the speed and quality of the past few release cycles.  There’s no point in mincing words: it’s been less than what you and we have come to expect from EllisLab.  If this has concerned you, double or triple that concern, and that’s how we feel.  And we have a plan in motion to fix it.

Solving this problem first required that we identify exactly what the cause was.  We have talented developers who love our products and our community, so this was...

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Derek Jones
Derek Jones
President/CTO, EllisLab, Inc.

Third Party Add-on Policies for the New Forums

Jul 19, 2010      Permalink Discuss

Today we are introducing two new changes to our Community Forums to help people find new add-ons and to ensure that people have a better support experience with third party add-ons.

First, we are changing the “Site Introduction” forum to the Community News forum.  In this forum you can announce your new ExpressionEngine powered site, add-on, or other related product or service.  Additionally we have a program in development that will enable developers to reach the Community through...

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Derek Jones
Derek Jones
President/CTO, EllisLab, Inc.

Important 2.1 info for third party devs: Building file paths to your add-ons

Jul 06, 2010      Permalink Discuss

I wanted to make a quick broadcast to third party developers about a potential issue in the upcoming ExpressionEngine 2.1 release with your add-ons, depending on how you were building file paths with CodeIgniter.  If affected, your add-ons will break in ExpressionEngine 2.1, so it is very important for users of your add-ons to have updated code prior to its launch.  If you have been building your file paths with PATH_THIRD or APPPATH*, you should not be affected.

In our testing we...

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Derek Jones
Derek Jones
President/CTO, EllisLab, Inc.

Micro Dev Summit: Nashville, TN

Nov 06, 2009      Permalink Discuss

The ExpressionEngine development team will be in Music City towards the end of the month, on the 23rd and 24th.  We’d like at some point to make ourselves available to our ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter friends who live or work in the Nashville area for a casual gathering, likely the morning of the 24th.  Perhaps a breakfast with the Code Mechanics?

ProNet member Paramore|Redd has been very helpful in giving us a local’s perspective on where to stay, eat, etc. and we welcome...

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Derek Jones
Derek Jones
President/CTO, EllisLab, Inc.

A Greeting Card to Third Party Developers

Nov 03, 2009      Permalink Discuss

a developer
extend our code bend our app
growing up so fast

I wanted to take a moment today to acknowledge all of the hard working third party developers in our community, as well as draw attention to the growth spurt that we’ve seen in that area.  In the last 18 months, perhaps two years, a major shift began taking place in the third party developer community.  It used to be that extending ExpressionEngine was largely about creating one-off add-ons for a specific site or user.  There...

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