Micro Dev Summit: Nashville, TN

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...

A Greeting Card to Third Party Developers

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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...

default_set Needs You!

Want to have your artistic side shown off in ExpressionEngine 2.0 for the world to see?

With the release of EE 2.0, we’re looking to revamp the default avatars set, and we want your contributions. My ability to produce good art ended when I realized that the macaroni and glue wasn’t as tasty as it first appeared (4 years ago), and now I need your help.

The idea of letting the community contribute avatars came from André Fredriksson (thanks!) at EECI2009. Over a beer, he...

Web Security is a Three Edged Sword

We just released a new build of ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 that includes some measures to help prevent information disclosure due to residing on insecure server environments, and it got me thinking that it would be a good time to write up a post on web security basics for people new to the subject and as a reminder for pros.

There’s an aphorism from the TV series “Babylon 5”: Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.  In a similar vein comes the title of...

First Wave of Kaylee Invitations Sent

The first wave of invitations to the developer preview program went out late last night.  I’ve been working like a madman since returning from SXSW to get some of the mundane but necessary infrastructure in place to enable us to support Kaylee and help third party developers transition to the new code.  We’ll be doing this in waves, very small at first, and as Kaylee matures and more developers become experienced with it, we’ll add larger numbers of people to the program at a time.

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Accepting ExpressionEngine 2.0 Developer Preview Applications

Ah, momentous occasions!  We’ve hit another milestone and are therefore opening up the application process for the Developer Preview of ExpressionEngine 2.0.  The developer preview release version is code named “Kaylee”, so you’ll see us make references to Kaylee regularly during the coming weeks.

We’re excited about the progress being made, and we know you’re excited as well to have another visible mark of our forward momentum.  So, coders, hop on over to the application page, which...

What’s Taking So Long?!

Many wonder what’s taking us so long with 2.0.  Hopefully this little walk through code conversion will help answer that question.  Rewriting all of ExpressionEngine to a new architecture is a time consuming process, there’s just no way around it.  It’s not glamorous work, and we have a very small team of developers who carry many duties in addition to programming ExpressionEngine 2.0.

We knew it would be arduous when we began, but we were and remain firmly convinced that the change in...