Morning! We’re going through the final touches of the preview, working out the nerves, and exorcising the stress!

If you are live blogging (or just plain blogging) the ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview please post a link to your blog in this thread to make it easy for the community to find. Thanks!

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Not there, but very excited for the opportunity to be there virtually.

And let’s just go ahead and pick a hashtag for Twitter, too: #ee2p

Yes. Please please please please please someone post some links to live blogs for all us unfortunate souls who couldn’t attend and are trying our best to help out on the forums where we can!!

Best wishes,

Mark

It is 1am here in Australia. Please post something nice

Just an hour to go now. Wish I was there! :-(

Hope it all goes well in Austin. All the best to the EE team. I’m sure you will all do a fantastic job even if you just sit there and show screen-shots of whatever it is you have cooking!!

Best wishes,

Mark

I wish I was there in Austin too, but I’ve already commissioned a friend of mine who is going to pick me up an EE tshirt, so I can at least pretend that I went.  Will there be an official recap/overview posted on the EE site later today?

No one is live blogging this?! You’ve got to be kidding me! Dagnabit, us folks who couldn’t go need something, anything. :( Question: Does the preview include CI 2.0? I’m guessing it does but I just want to be sure.

Go find Scoble with his QuikTV cell phone so we can watch a live feed

There’s this: http://www.meebo.com/sxsw/room.php?id=IAP060588 , but it seems quite dead…

A bunch of us are in that Meebo room, but no one who is actually at the preview has stepped in yet.

Just found this via the discussion @ meebo: http://twitter.com/davidrussell

Just logged in on the meebod- hope someone live does.  Kinda nice way to keep up.  Hm- should I be trying to work the forum?

No.

I’m a two hour drive away and kicking myself for not attending. D’oh!

Please post your screenshots here…

Yes please please please please please!!

We were all in that Flash chat room and you could literally smell the baited breath from us all!!!

Please some screen-shots for us dedicated sillies who spent our afternoon refreshing a twitter page!!!

Best wishes,

Mark

OK, so I really like:
1) CI integration
2) jQuery!!!
3) CP change

Here is what I came wanting to hear:
1) super charged media/file manager with versioning
2) page-level hierarchy
3) menu tags that can kick out unordered list based menus (full hierarchy, children, siblings, etc.) and identify the current page with a class
4) built-in CSS & Javascript compression and acceleration like PHPSpeedy
5) full support (user accounts, comments, etc.) for OpenID (not attached to an EE specific account; creating an account on the admin side should be as easy as pasting in an OpenID URL and setting the role, done!)

Questions

—Is the Jquery thing simply it being used for the CP? Or is there some kind of deeper integration?

—Now that EE is to be built on CI, does this actually diminish its appeal, as there are other, albeit ‘lighter’ CMSs popping up on CI, a la Blaze?

—How long will it take 3rd parties such as Solspace to upgrade their plugins to play nice with CI?

—Am I the only one at this point this is no longer laughing with the rest of the crowd at the ‘it’ll be done when it’s done’ comment?

—Will there be a marketing plan/push in place to potentially help 3rd party developers and integrators of EE?

DEA - 08 March 2008 05:33 PM

Questions

—Is the Jquery thing simply it being used for the CP? Or is there some kind of deeper integration?

—Now that EE is to be built on CI, does this actually diminish its appeal, as there are other, albeit ‘lighter’ CMSs popping up on CI, a la Blaze?

No, EE is EE and no other CMSs have the same way of dealing with data that I know of.

—How long will it take 3rd parties such as Solspace to upgrade their plugins to play nice with CI?

Need to ask them. Depends on their level of skill with CI.

—Am I the only one at this point this is no longer laughing with the rest of the crowd at the ‘it’ll be done when it’s done’ comment?

I’m not crying about it. Why can’t you feel happy that you heard anything at all?

—Will there be a marketing plan/push in place to potentially help 3rd party developers and integrators of EE?

Yes there will be.

While we all await some visuals .... Silicon Florist blog has some brief wrap-up thoughts and news of another demo coming to some conference I’ve never heard of.

And since there were some questions re: add-on compatibility, I refer to ye olde EE blog post. (All that makes me glad I’m still not a programmer.) So, fellas, when are we going to see that developer release, eh?