ExpressionEngine 2.0 news

Posted on March 08, 2008
Filed Under: Personal, Work
Tagged: cms, codeigniter, ee, expressionengine, php, sxsw 2008

UPDATE: David Russell has a few photos posted on flickr from this morning’s sneak peek.

New Control Panel
Managing Fields
Content Page

UPDATE: More screenshots from Derek

The big news (although not altogether unexpected) is that EE 2.0 is built on the CodeIgniter framework. This is great news for the company, for the developers, and the two communities behind EE and CodeIgniter. With CI as the framework, a number of doors open for extending the application in ways that weren’t possible (or were too much trouble) before, expecially with regard to custom fields/data.

The other news is that the control panel has been completely redesigned by the one and only and totally awesome Veerle Pieters!! It’s powered, in all it’s ajaxy-glory by JQuery. The familiar tabs are gone and a footer area contains a number of tools and links.

There’s also some talk about how EE 2.0 will manage files and images better—but no real meat to that. I’ll be interested to learn more on this given the complexity of file associations we deal with at work.

Of course, the biggest question is, when will it be released?

The answer, “when it’s ready.”

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