EE Podcast

EE Podcast #25: Talking EE 2.1

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:30:00 GMT

In this episode of the podcast, Dan, Ryan and Lea talk about the release of ExpressionEngine 2.1 and their favorite features.

EE Podcast #24: The Business Side of EE

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:50:00 GMT

In this episode Lea, Dan and Ryan discuss the business of ExpressionEngine. We touched on topics like the challenge of selling EE to big and small clients, the cost of add-ons and the future of add-on development.

EE Podcast #23: Member Spamity Spam

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:24:00 GMT

Dan, Ryan, and Lea talk about the member spam issues and suggest defenses and solutions.

EE Podcast #22: When to Use EE

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:30:00 GMT

In this episode of the EE Podcast, Lea, Dan and Ryan discuss scenarios where ExpressionEngine is a good fit as a CMS and where it is not.

EE Podcast #21: The Setup

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:19:00 GMT

Dan and Lea discuss the recent EE 2.1 update, and talk about getting setup with EE, what operating system you’ll need, using the right version of PHP and MySQL, and more.

EE Podcast #20: Integrating a Design into EE

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:00:00 GMT

Dan and Lea discuss the details of integrating a design into EE, and migrating from WordPress to EE.

EE Podcast #19: Managing Members

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:10:00 GMT

Ryan, Dan and Lea discuss best practices of managing members. Do you use the Member module in EE? Weblog/Channel entries for members? We also discussed the drawbacks and benefits of using the default member templates and the Solspace User module. Finally, we address how to combat spammers signing up as members and member profile spam.

It’s an episode to re-member!

EE Podcast #18: The Mistakes We've Made

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Dan, Ryan and special guest Lea Alcantara talk about the mistakes we’ve made implementing sites with ExpressionEngine.

EE Podcast #17: Listener Mailbag

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:25:00 GMT

Over the last few months we’ve received a lot of email with suggestions for show topics and how-to questions. In this episode Dan and Ryan will go through as many emails as possible and answer them.

EE Podcast #16: Developing and Selling Add-ons

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:35:00 GMT

Whether you’ve already developed your own add-ons or are just curious about what it takes to get started, this episode of the EE Podcast is for you.

Listen in as Dan and Ryan have a conversation with Brandon Kelly of Pixel and Tonic and Ryan Masuga of devot:ee about their experiences developing and selling ExpressionEngine add-ons.

EE Podcast #15: Preparing for Client Hand-off

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:15:00 GMT

You’ve spent weeks developing an ExpressionEngine-powered website for your client. The site looks great, works great and you’re ready to hand it over to the client. What now?

In this episode Dan and Ryan discuss preparing a site for client hand-off. They cover some of the best add-ons to help and some tips from their experience.

EE Podcast #14: External Content

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:02:00 GMT

Have you ever had to deal with external sources of content, like an RSS feed, Twitter, Facebook or even an XML document that Bob from IT manually updates each morning? In this episode Dan and Ryan talk about different ways of getting external content into your EE site.

EE Podcast #13: Better Content Entry

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:30:00 GMT

In this episode of the podcast Dan and Ryan catch up on some news and happenings and then talk about the different ways of allowing clients to publish rich content through ExpressionEngine. Do you install a WYSIWYG editor, teach them HTML, give them specific HTML to use for certain situations? The choices are many.

We discuss the popular WYSIWYG editors for EE and other ways of making it as easy as possible for clients to enter rich content into their site.

Have an idea for the show? Send us an email and let us know what you want to hear. If we use your topic for an episode, you’ll get a free EE Code t-shirt!

EE Podcast #12: Search

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

In this episode we have a conversation about searching ExpressionEngine content. We cover the default EE simple search, advanced search as well as some power tools that allow you to smartly and easily search your EE content.

EE Simple Search
You need to make sure you explicitly tell EE where to search in Simple Search. If you don’t set the search_in parameter, it will default to searching only the titles—no matter which custom fields you mark as searchable.
The where parameter is useful for telling EE how accurate the search needs to be.
EE Advanced Search
Using the search parameter
Solspace Super Search
Overview of Super Search on EE Insider.
Demo of Super Search on EE Insider

EE Podcast #11: Images in EE

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:35:00 GMT

In this episode, we respond to a popular reader question: what’s the best way to handle dynamically sizing images and general best practices? We answer that question, and talk about the built-in management tools, while highlighting a few of the add-ons available in both EE 1.6.x and EE 2.0 to handle and manage images.

Image Sizer plugin by Lumis (1.6.x and 2.0)
EE 2.0 File Manager
Stand-Alone Image Editor (1.6.x only)
ED Imageresizer (1.6.x and 2.0)
nGen File Field (1.6.x only)
BucketList

EE Podcast #10: Behind the Scenes at Playgrounder

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:55:00 GMT

We’re back! Due to schedule conflicts and the holidays, the EE Podcast is back with another episode packed full of EE goodies.

In this episode, Dan and Ryan talk about Playgrounder.com, a site Dan built, covering all of the latest and greatest toys and gear for kids. We cover the add-ons he used and a couple of tricks to make the site work without heavy customization.

Playgrounder
FF Checkbox
Age Range page
Sneaky Uses for for Everything Thing (sample entry for categories in URLs)
Hack the URL and get redirected to a category page: http://playgrounder.com/stuff/learning/books

EE Podcast #9: The 411 on EE 2.0

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:28:00 GMT

Ryan and Dan give you the skinny on ExpressionEngine 2.0. They discuss some new features, integration issues, upgrade paths, and more.

EE Podcast #8: Your questions, our answers.

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:27:00 GMT

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.

EE Podcast #7: Something, something

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:27:00 GMT

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.

EE Podcast #6: Wither EE 1.6.x Add-Ons?

Dan Benjamin, Ryan Irelan, and Lea Alcantara — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:25:00 GMT

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.