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Thank You John!

This is a big public thank you to John Fuller for all the official help and assistance he’s provided to the ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter communities as part of our Technical Support Specialist team.

Unfortunately the “College Beast” has reared its head to battle John and he must return his attention to that particular adventure. Fortunately John’s promised to continue his enthusiastic support for the EllisLab Communities and be his usual helpful self here when he can. Drop him a...

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Tales from SXSW 2007

A big thank you to everyone who came to the EllisLab SXSW 2007 Meet up! We had a blast and hope you did too. We will definitely be at SXSW 2008! If you were at SXSW feel free to contribute photos to the EllisLab SXSW 2007 Flickr Group.

And now, without further ado, a recap of SXSW 2007.

Traveling Daze

We arrived in Austin tired, exhausted, oddly happy, and a bit bewildered. Friday night consisted of supper complete with loud birds and a bad sax player on the open patio of an...

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Hat tip to Lisa, John, Robin, and Allard

I want to take a moment to publicly thank our tech team for all their hard work yesterday. Actually, all their hard work period. Tech support is not glamorous and these guys do it with style and passion. They were on the ball yesterday like they always are and we counted on them, like we always do.

I’ve worked in a variety of industries… education, government, marketing firms, a tech firm, ministries, fast food (its true, I was a teller for a local fast food joint, “want fries with...

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Launch Day 1:44am

For the one or two of you that don’t know, this is what working at 1:44 am on the night before a big launch looks like:

On the positive side, this is considerably better than I looked at 2am last night or 3am the night before. We won’t even mention last weekend. That is the past.

At the moment there is a worn-out cynical part of me saying “If we ever decide to rename the company, redo 4 websites, add a major feature to EE, and hit one of the biggest conventions for web nerds in the...

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