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Toronto Meetup Tuesday June 18th

2013-06-18T03:37:50+00:00

Meetups, 2013-06-18T03:37:50+00:00 If you’re not in Seattle, you might be in Toronto. Well, it’s a good thing. The Toronto ExpressionEngine meetup takes place tomorrow June 18th at 6:31 (?) PM at The Office Pub on John Street.

I can speak from personal experience with this meetup. This is a great group of people and one that made me feel welcome in a cold, windy city 1,600 miles (2500 km) from home this past March. An excellent cast of characters who care a lot of about ExpressionEngine. If you’re in Toronto, you should attend.

Location and details are available at the Toronto-ee website.

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Seattle EE Meetup This Thursday

2013-06-18T03:31:00+00:00

Meetups, 2013-06-18T03:31:00+00:00 This Thursday at WINTR on Ballard Ave NW the latest installment of the ExpressionEngine Seattle meetup will take place.

Pre-meetup eating and beveraging happens at the Ballard Pizza Company at 6PM. The main event starts at 7 PM at WINTR. This meetup features Jimmy Fursman speaking on the topic “Practical Caching for ExpressionEngine.”

Ten people are already RSVP’d to attend. You could take it to eleven.

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Comparing Technical Debt

2013-06-18T03:26:40+00:00

Development Tools, Life as a Web Professional, 2013-06-18T03:26:40+00:00 No matter which solution you choose, beware of the technical debt you incur along the way. Sam Hernandez says it well:

When choosing a CMS, compare technical debt. The more it does for you, the greater the future debt (real dollars) #eecms vs #drupal
— Sam Hernandez (@sam_h) June 13, 2013

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EE Podcast: EE Error Pages with Ryan Battles

2013-06-13T17:00:00+00:00

EE Podcast, 2013-06-13T17:00:00+00:00 404 Page Not Found. While developers may be familiar with this and other server error pages, site visitors may not, which can lead to confusion and lost traffic. For the latest EE Podcast, Ryan Battles joins the show to talk about ways developers can make their server error pages and site error messages more effective. Ryan details ways you can customize some of the default server messages, as well as ExpressionEngine’s system messages. Ryan discusses EE template development, and how developers can ensure that a correct 404 redirect occurs when necessary. He also offers tips for front-end form validation. Tune in now!

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Your Weekly devot:ee - June 13, 2013

2013-06-13T14:32:00+00:00

Weekly Devot:ee, 2013-06-13T14:32:00+00:00

URL Encode for site_url and homepage Variables by Mike Watts
Returns an encoded url. You can also use EE standard global variables {site_url} and {homepage} inside the tag.
PrintFriendly by Rein de Vries
The #1 Print and PDF button for your ExpressionEngine site. Printer Friendly pages without coding, css, or print.css. Fast, easy, and professional.
Font Awesome by Rein de Vries
Add Font Awesome icons to EE as Tag
CE Cache Breaker for Low Reorder by Gaetan (Gaetan Lafaut)
Ce Cache Breaker for Low Reorder allows you to set CE Cache break tags per Low Reorder set. When you reorder your entries it will break the cache for the provided tag.

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Engine Summit Next Week

2013-06-09T04:31:00+00:00

Conferences, 2013-06-09T04:31:00+00:00 Next week, on June 12th, the next installment of the Engine Summit takes place.

The summit is an online conference featuring some smart speakers, like Eric Miller, Angie Herrera, Low Schutte, and more. The website has the full speaker lineup including their talk summaries. The first talk, scheduled for 9 AM CDT is by Eric Miller and will cover “Designing for EE Development.”

The conference day will wrap up with an EllisLab Roundtable featuring James Mathias of EllisLab.

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Your Weekly devot:ee - June 6, 2013

2013-06-06T20:13:00+00:00

Weekly Devot:ee, 2013-06-06T20:13:00+00:00

Typogrify by Easy Designs
The Typogrify plugin for Expression Engine is a reinterpretation of the Django templates of the same name.
Font Awesome Star Rank by JCDerrick
Font Awesome Star Rank is a fieldtype that providers publishers the ability to add a simple star rating input field to their entries. On the ‘front end’ the field type will output as a simple and easily styled Bootstrap friendly star ranking. Font Awesome Star Rank is compatible with Pixel & Tonic’s Matrix fieldtype. Font Awesome 3.1.0 or higher is required for use with this add-on! A free plugin is included with version 1.2+
Select2 ($) by Pv Ledoux
Select2 for ExpressionEngine is a user-friendly select box fieldtype (single or multi-select) with support for plain text options or SQL query and allows you to search in the option list.

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CartThrob Now Supports EE 2.6

2013-06-06T00:48:00+00:00

E-commerce, EE Add-ons, EE Modules, 2013-06-06T00:48:00+00:00 Last week an update to CartThrob was released and it includes support for EE 2.6. The big update fixes several issues (see the changelog for details and added a few things, too.

Visit the CartThrob site to learn more.

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New Add-on: Babeltext

2013-06-06T00:38:00+00:00

EE Add-ons, EE Fieldtypes, 2013-06-06T00:38:00+00:00 Babeltext is a field type that gives you the ability to configure content in multiple languages in a single field. So, you could have a single description field and just quickly enter the content in multiple languages right in the one field.

To output the content you use the “language” parameter with the field name tag to specify which language to output.

Pretty cool stuff.

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New Add-on: Select2 for ExpressionEngine

2013-06-06T00:26:00+00:00

EE Add-ons, EE Fieldtypes, 2013-06-06T00:26:00+00:00

Select2 for ExpressionEngine is a user-friendly select box fieldtype (single or multi-select) with support for plain text options or SQL query and allows you to search in the option list.

This is an implementation of the Select2 jQuery plugin. It’s labeled as a “pre-release” and costs $12.50 at Devot:ee.

Learn more about Select2 for ExpressionEngine.

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