Today’s Update Brought to You By the Letter

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In our last update, Les hinted that the next update on ExpressionEngine 2.0’s progress would be more significant than the last few, which have been pretty standard fare, letting you know that we were progressively on the march and happy with where we were.  But this week we’ve crossed a major milestone and I’ve crawled from the icy confines of the Fortress of Solitude to bring you this news: our focus is now shifted to beginning a beta program.

The beta for ExpressionEngine 2.0...

2.0 Update, Entry from the lost journal of Allard

Today’s update was simply going to be “Nothing to see here!” But then an odd thing happened. A cowboy with leathery skin and a sun-worn hat rode horseback to my front porch and gave me a rolled up peice of parchment. It contained a hand-written (poor penmanship I might add) note from Derek Allard, our venerable Technology Architect, which I’ve transcribed below for anyone that finds it interesting.

Dear Mr. Camacho,

I have little time to write this note as paper is hard to come by,...

2.0 Update, European Adventure

Progress on 2.0 continues smoothly and the light at the end of the tunnel gets brighter and brighter. Jones is wrapping up a new Kaylee package, Greg whipped out some cool CSS3 solutions for a few places where we want to be edgy with the Example Site and is now searching high and low for fonts. Lisa and I are working out a few Example Site deployment details. Allard is working on “quick save” improvements, Robin is finishing up a number of important Q&A tasks, and Pascal is making...

In Which Kaylee Goes on a Date to Portland

Development progress is reminiscent of last week (as predicted). This is a good thing. The “Oscar approach” to transitioning Kaylee into a beta continues to go smoothly.

For the curious this includes code, docs, UI polish, and everything in-between. Of course, the question everyone is asking is when will the beta arrive.

We learned a hard lesson last year about public dates so we’re not going to do that until we’re 100% sure we can meet whatever we say publicly. But let’s just say...

Developer Preview Coming to an End

We have two items that we want to introduce into Kaylee over the next couple of weeks related to how she works with add-ons and external applications. Once add-on developers have had the opportunity to test them out, the Developer Preview program will come to end.

Aside from that, the dev team is busy polishing up Kaylee. As reported last time, this is not exactly exciting work but its the type of thing where doing it right instills a certain pride and is critical to making EE what it...

Train-ee’s Water from a Website Auction

Michael Boyink over at Train-ee.com is doing something unique. He’s spent the last several months doing a detailed Building a Church Site in ExpressionEngine tutorial series as the follow up to well received Building a Business Site in ExpressionEngine series (both are free).

Mike decided to auction the finished site from the Church series along with an extensive package valued at over $9700 (includes ExpressionEngine licenses along with EngineHosting’s S2 solution)! The auction is

The Update on the Update

Whew! As of yesterday we are all back from SXSW. We know that everyone is anxious to hear the update so here is the update on the update. 

We’re taking today to recover and catch up on our respective inboxes. Tomorrow we resume our regular EE 2.0 progress updates that take place every two weeks (more or less). Friday’s update will include a SXSW recap, which by default will include news about Kaylee (the EE 2.0 developer preview). If you want to get a head start check out EE Insider’s...