(does a dance) Yay! I just upgraded my site, and it went smoothly. I love the little changes, and all the new added functionality. I’m also thrilled at the Core version, and the TinyMCE extension… My clients (and by “extension” me, hehehe) will totally benefit from this. (continues to dance)
Congrats from this side of the Atlantic, too. Saturday morning, not 7 yet, and what do I see? Good thing I hadn’t planned anything important before noon. Thanks Paul, and all the others who worked hard to make this happen.
I really like what I’ve read so far—for a 1.3.2 to 1.4 upgrade, you delivered about 3 generations of changes. I’ll be upgrading shortly to test it out.
I’m surprised no one was commented on the limitation of the FREE core, or rather, the lack of limitations. Several of my clients would be quite happy using CORE features only, if they didn’t also happen to be commercial sites.
Here’s the Buzz Marketing with Blogs long-winded observations about the new version—I’d be interested in reading other folks’ extended thoughts.
This version has made several major, powerful steps ahead, especially the relational capabilities and extensions manager; more power to the CMS, business users.
And the release of the free Core version is a real smart move : you will attract even more new users to EE.
Haven’t even looked at 1.4 yet, just digesting the freeness of Core. What a big move. Very nice and very smart. And amazing timing with Typepad down and the big bloggers such as Instapundit and Volokh writing about that.
Timing is a bit too amazing in fact. Has the Evil Empire already begun?
I’d like to mention that in addition to the excellent new features, the documentation overhaul on 1.4 is just awesome. I’ve spent the last three hours re-reading the docs and they’re much easier to navigate and (from what I remember when I started out) I think that they’re much more approachable for new users. The visual upgrade didn’t hurt either.
Is this because the developers did a super good job this time
That and the fact Rob and LJ got at it and did a good first few rounds on it…great job you two. Based on past betas, I was astounded at how few bugs were reported and on that list.
I’d like to also compliment Robin and Lisa. They were quite brutal in their punishment, leading to a mass extermination of bugs.
You go GIRLS!
. . . . . . and more thanks to Rick, Paul and the pM team for your coding and dev efforts. . .
At last, a date field format. Without a date field format it had nagged at the edge of my minds all this time that the system I was using was not quite full-blooded. Now it has a date field format. A toast.
