Happy birthday to your neet codez, you bunch of geeks, and congratulations on escaping the Terrible Twos—which one can only assume applies to both CMSes and small children.
Just don’t go and sell EE to someone that doesn’t care about your community like you do! One of the things that makes EE so good is that family feeling. I can’t tell you how important that is to EE’s success, IMHO.
Just don’t go and sell EE to someone that doesn’t care about your community like you do! One of the things that makes EE so good is that family feeling. I can’t tell you how important that is to EE’s success, IMHO.
I’m thinking Microsoft might be a good candidate for a buyout.
*sigh* Microsoft, eh? Then I shall have to go to Joomla/Drupal/Typo3/tearing out my hair.
But just to make life interesting, before the buyout, why not transfer the IP rights to, say, the weblog module to me? Then we can do a nice *taste of their own medicine* thing to Microsoft.
Seriously, congrats on year three! EE and CI are great!
Let me take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to you, Rick, and the entire EllisLab team.
If you’d asked me some 18 months ago if I ever would want to have my own company, I’d most assuredly say something like “nah, I’m perfectly happy working for The Man.” Back then, I was already working with EE at my previous employer and was digging it more and more. Sometimes a small side-project would come up. And another. And another…
Right now, I’ve quit my job and am running my own one-man company, mainly because of what EE can do, and what I can do with EE. In essence, EllisLab has enabled me to make—what is turning out to be—the best career move I’ve made so far. And for that, I’m truly grateful.
In fact, I have this theory that the 2012 TEOTWAWKI/Jumptime/God-Mind Returns to Men Or Men Are Wiped Out, Either Or phenomenon isn’t that hard to figure out. We don’t know what’s coming next, right, because the Mayan calendar is finishing and they haven’t left us with any details on the end of this particular cycle, or what comes after it? Well, that just means that we go back to the beginning! And what did we meet at the end of the first cycle last time? A giant jaguar that ate the world.
My only point was that Google is moving quickly, and if EE was to have an offer from anyone it would probably be them. You know. Theoretically. So, um. Don’t talk about this stuff any more. Because this thread is about EE’s birthday.
Just wanted to pop in and say a very very Happy Birthday to EE!!
Have only been using the system for about 8 months or so now but will never ever look at another system as long as EE is around. I have used just about every single CMS application that is out there in the past and EE is most definitely without a doubt the easiest yet most powerful system that money can buy.
Even though I used to create sites using free CMS systems and EE has to be paid for, I am more than happy to part with that money knowing that the sites I can produce are going to be 100% valid and exceptionally easy to update at a later date.
Many many thanks to all the devs for making this so possible and Happy Birthday to all of you too!!
I know I’m kinda late to the party but happy belated birthday EE . May you have many, many, many more birthdays under the captain-ship of the EllisLab team.
