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 PageUPDATE: 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.”
Clayton is busy
Posted on March 05, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: clayton lenear, cms, expressionengine, media general
We’re going gangbusters around work with ExpressionEngine these days. Almost everyone here, from the PMs to the developers to the support team, has something on their plate related to EE. Some people are busier than others though, especially Clayton.
Want to guess how I know he’s super-busy today?
OpenID gets some heavy love
Posted on February 23, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: expressionengine, google, ibm, microsoft, openid, yahoo
Looks like the big players are finally jumping onto the OpenID bandwagon.
The OpenID Foundation recently announced that a number of internet heavyweights joined the group. The board now includes representatives from Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo!
While OpenID isn’t without it’s critics, including some concerns about phishing, it’s looking more and more like a viable solution for the masses who want to eliminate the need for multiple user names and passwords.
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