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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.

ExpressionEngine 2.5.0 Released

ExpressionEngine 2.5.0 is a feature and security release.  It features a new Rich Text Editor field type, a Rich Text Editor Module to allow use of the editor on the front end, and a Cookie Consent Module designed to help European Union (EU) users comply with privacy laws impacting cookie use.  In addition to a number of new features, this release improves XSS filtering and redirect behavior.  For developers there are a number of new hooks and improvements, and everyone will benefit...

EECI EU 2012

Every year Robert Eerhart does a great job of making sure that our community in Europe is not left out of the EECI goodness by hosting a conference in his home town of Leiden, Netherlands. This year’s line up of speakers is going to be awesome. The roster reads like a who’s who from our development community. With folks like Filip Vanderstappen, Stephen Lewis, Leevi Graham and Steven Grant (to name a few) speaking, you will definitely not want to miss this conference.

EECI is also...

Reminder: EE 1 Public Support Ending Soon

As you may recall, we announced here back in November a few big steps that we’re taking in transitioning EE 1 toward its status as a legacy product. The first was that new purchases of EE 2 made on or after December 5th, 2011 would no longer include EE 1. The second step that we announced was the upcoming end of public support for EE 1. Since that date is coming up soon, I wanted to update you on what to expect.

The support team and I have been hard at work over the last several months...

Product Evangelist

This past summer there was a thread in the forums titled The State of EE. We see these threads occasionally, and we encourage them. We learn quite a bit about the communities’ desires from them. But in this particular one, Mike Hughes stated the following:

One thing I feel EllisLab and EE would benefit from is having a Product Evangelist. Everyone knows that anyone that has used EE swears up and down by it (for the most part) but that’s not necessarily the Product Evangelist I’m...

ExpressionEngine Reactor, For Developers by Developers

It’s our pleasure to formally introduce the ExpressionEngine Reactor team to the Community. In a nutshell, the EE Reactor team is a group of devs who can contribute directly to ExpressionEngine using a system modeled off Open Source contributions. For EllisLab, it is modeled from the CodeIgniter Reactor team. We’ll go into more detail about what EE Reactor is but first let’s meet the team.

Greg Ferrell, Solspace.com
Leevi Graham, Newism & EE-Garage
Brian Litzinger, BoldMinded & The...

New Job Opening: Customer Advocate

EllisLab is a web application company devoted to making our users’ online lives better with powerful software that solves real-world problems. Our Customer Advocates are a team of friendly, customer-focused people who help our Community succeed with our world-class web publishing platforms ExpressionEngine and MojoMotor.

Read the full job posting.