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Episode 9: The 411 on EE 2.0
Published 15 December, 2009
Ryan and Dan give you the skinny on ExpressionEngine 2.0. They discuss some new features, integration issues, upgrade paths, and more.
Episode 8: Your questions, our answers.
Published 20 November, 2009
In the eighth episode of the EE Podcast Dan and Ryan answer listener emails. They cover topics like site deployment, what to expect moving to from EE 1.6.8 to EE 2.0 and a handy extension to redirect after submitting an entry.
Link for this episode:
- Entry REEdirect extension by
- Official ExpressionEngine 2.0 information page.
- Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano by Dan Benjamin.
- Creating a Robust Config.php File by Ryan Irelan.
This episode is sponsored by Devot:ee, the largest, most complete ExpressionEngine add-on library anywhere. Devot:ee devoted to ExpressionEngine.
Episode 7: Something, something
Published 13 November, 2009
In episode seven of the EE Podcast, Dan and Ryan cover the latest ExpressionEngine news, the good and bad of the Structure module and put out a call to action for a new plugin to support Twitter search.
Links for this episode:
- Continuing the trend started by Brandon Kelly, Lodewijk Schutte (Low) published his EE add-on roadmap.
- Do you develop EE add-ons? Will you be porting them to 2.0? If so, you want to be listed on this special Devot-ee page.
- EE Insider published a special bonus interview with Derek Allark of EllisLab. Derek talks about CodeIgniter today, in the future and how it ties into ExpressionEngine 2.0.
- Structure 2.0 was released late last week. It’s a significant update to the original, free version.
- Speaking of Structure, if you’re like me, you want your clients to use the Structure interface for managing the website. Chad Crowell published a simple plugin, WI Direct to Structure that redirects you to the Structure page whenever you add or update an entry.
This episode is sponsored by Mailchimp. Now you can integrate seamlessly with EE – send 3,000 emails to 500 subscribers without paying a dime.
Episode 6: Wither EE 1.6.x Add-Ons?
Published 5 November, 2009
In episode six of the ExpressionEngine Podcast, Dan and Ryan discuss the future of EE add-ons, roadmaps, the community’s reaction to EE 2.0, and the latest EE news.
Links for this episode:
- Round-up the EE 2.0 Week coverage at EE Insider at the ExpressionEngine Blog.
- EllisLab is soliciting contributions of default avatars for EE 2.0.
- Brandon Kelly publishes his EE 2.0 add-on conversion roadmap.
- More than one person expresses concern over the availability of EE 2.0 add-ons.
- If you still want to build add-ons for EE 1.6.x, Erik Reagan wrote a tutorial that documents the process.
This episode is sponsored by Mailchimp. Now you can integrate seamlessly with EE – send 3,000 emails to 500 subscribers without paying a dime.
Episode 5: EE 2.0 and Derek Jones of EllisLab
Published 27 October, 2009
In episode five of the EE Podcast, Dan and Ryan talk about Ryan’s experience at the EECI 2009 conference in Leiden, Netherlands, cover the latest announcements on EE 2.0 and offer an in-depth interview with EllisLab CTO Derek Jones on what add-on development will be like for EE 2.0.
Links for this episode:
- Derek Jones, EllisLab CTO talked to us about developing add-ons for EE 2.0.
- EE 2.0 is built on the CodeIgniter PHP framework.
- Video and slides are slowly being made available on the EECI 2009 website.
- EE 2.0 is coming out on December 1, 2009.
- New pricing for EE 2.0 was announced by Leslie Camacho during his keynote presentation at EECI 2009.
This episode is sponsored by Mailchimp. Now you can integrate seamlessly with EE – send 3,000 emails to 500 subscribers without paying a dime.
Episode 4: Hosting, Schmosting
Published 21 October, 2009
Links for this episode:
- EECI 2009 this Thursday and Friday in Leiden, The Netherlands. Ryan will be speaking on Thursday at 17:35 on “10 Ways to Supercharge Your EE Development.” Ryan will also be covering the conference at EE Insider and here at the EE Podcast.
- Second wave of EE 2.0 Beta Phase 2 invites have been sent out. If you’re in, you’re in. If you’re not, oh noes!
- Getting to No by Greg Hoy talks about what to consider when picking new clients. “I’ve learned that the hardest part isn’t closing the deal, but figuring out which deals are actually worth closing.”
- Hop Inject lets you insert something (ads, text) between paragraphs of your entry.
- Modulo Operator plugin let’s you calculate the modulo value. A common operation in PHP, this plugin makes it easy with just EE template tags.
- Restricted Area A module that allows you to wall off parts of your site to certain member groups.
Tech Talk: Hosting!
- EE Server Wizard. Checks if your server meets ExpressionEngine’s minimum requirements. Download and use this before installing EE on a new hosting account.
- Virtual servers: Slicehost, Linode
- Dedicated servers: The Planet, Rackspace
- Shared hosting: EngineHosting
This episode is sponsored by EECI 2009, the first European ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference where you can meet the experts, be inspired and break new boundaries!
Episode 3: Goodbye PHP4 (and IE6)
Published 13 October, 2009
Solspace announces that they’ll be dropping support for PHP 4 and IE6, a discussion with EE add-on developer and EE-podcast supporter, Brandon Kelly, and the latest EE-related news.
Links for this episode:
- EE Mobile Admin updated to include support for masked Control Panel access, FieldFrame fieldtypes and more.
- Edmonton, Canada Meetup will take place on October 24th. Win EE prizes like Ryan’s ExpressionEngine Screencasts. If you have a meet-up scheduled, let the folks at EllisLab know about it. They’ll post it to their site!
- Stephen Lewis posted his final article in a series on EE and Git. Started in June of this year, Lewis wrapped up the series with a fourth and final article.
- Dan’s article on Git and Capistrano
- Publish Button extension displays the Submit buttons when they’re out of view (from scrolling). A nice extension with great potential to become extremely annoying in day-to-day use.
- Solspace is moving its add-ons to PHP 5. How does this impact you? What does long-time PHP developer Dan Benjamin think? We also talk to EE add-on developer Brandon Kelly to get his take.
This episode is sponsored by Mailchimp. Now you can integrate seamlessly with EE – send 3,000 emails to 500 subscribers without paying a dime.
Episode 2: EE Roadshow Wrap-up and Developer Tools
Published 6 October, 2009
In episode two, Ryan and Dan discuss feedback on the first episode, the EE Roadshow conference, which took place last Friday in Seattle and some useful developer tools. Also, don’t miss Ryan quizzing Dan on EE trivia.
Links for this episode:
- EE Roadshow 2009 in Seattle. Ryan spoke at the conference this past Friday and details about the talks and some slides (not yet posted) are available on the EE Roadshow website.
- Coming up later this month is EECI 2009 in Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Read Ryan’s EE Roadshow Wrap-up post on EE Insider.
- Viget Labs lists some of their favorite EE tools. You might know some of these but maybe there’s a new one on the list to try out.
- Useful Add-on: ER Developer Toolbar Erik Reagan put together a plugin that displays quick links to oft-used preferences and configuration screens in the Control Panel. You place the plugin tag in your front-end templates for easy access.
- SL Developer Info. All of your settings and other EE information in one place. With this extensions you get quick links to everything you need to build an EE site. Very, very handy.
- LG Add Sitename Not only does it display the site name in the top left of the Control Panel, but it optionally displays server time information. Great for debugging issues with entries not appearing when you think they should.
- EE Database Tables Diagram Leevi Graham put together a diagram of the EE database tables. A potentially useful reference sheet while developing add-ons.
This episode is sponsored by Brandon Kelly’s Playa 2 EE Addon. Relating EE entries to one another has never been easier.
Episode 1: Caching and Acceleration
Published 30 September, 2009
In this episode, Dan and Ryan discuss the EE beta 2 phase, some new addons from Solspace, and offer some tech tips. We also go in-depth regarding caching and acceleration with Squid and varnish.
Links for this episode:
- Apply now for the second phase of EE 2.0 testing. There are only 300 spots available. Current testers do not need to reapply.
- New iPhone-optimized control panel for EE. It’s an extension plus themes to give you an easy way to update your EE site from your iPhone.
- Solspace Template Morsels
- New Plugin: FileSizer. Displays the size of an uploaded file.
- EE Insider Tip: Install EE above web root for improved security. Just follow these 4 steps.
- Use Squid and Varnish for high-traffic sites (like A List Apart and Playgrounder) for improved caching and acceleration.
This episode is sponsored by Brandon Kelly’s EE Addons, like Playa2, FieldFrame, and Wygwam: the premier WYSIWYG editor for ExpressionEngine.
