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Third Party Add-on Policies for the New Forums

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...

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

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...

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.