Enabling autosave in EE2 BETA

expressionengine, hints

One of the great new features that have been implemented in the EE2 BETA is autosaving. With autosaving enabled and the publish page open, the system will repeatedly save the current post you're working on, so if the unforgivable happens and you loose your post, you can get it back from the autosave feature. Unfortunately, in 2.0, autosave isn't enabled by default, but it's easy enough to do.

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The Playa Effect

add-ons, expressionengine, playa, reviews

There are very few times when you get to test out a genuinely exciting product - something that is revered and well known across a community and is hugely anticipated. I’m lucky enough to be able to test out the latest version of Brandon Kelly’s infamous Playa, which yesterday hit version 3. This update, among other things, introduces ExpressionEngine 2 support, a snazzy new interface and loads of bug fixes. I’ve been testing it out for a few days, and here’s my review.

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Rumbel-oh! the Joker

expressionengine, idiot

I’m extremely annoyed with myself. Let this be a lesson to everyone who is working on a project and has put anything more than 2 hours work into it: Back up and use some form of version control. If you don’t, you’ll seriously regret it. Anyway, let me tell you a story…

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Coming up at EECI 2010

codeigniter, conferences, eeci, expressionengine, speaking

There are going to be loads of people at EECI2010 SF, but the majority of them are going to be ExpressionEngine folk. We need to get the CodeIgniter numbers up, people, so I thought I’d post a sneak preview of my talk and my masterclass. If you want to get tickets already, head straight over to the EECI website and get them ASAP!

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EECI Wrap-up

codeigniter, conferences, eeci, expressionengine

I’ve been collecting all the photos, videos, slides and more from my recent trip to San Francisco and the ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter Conference. There’s still plenty more reports, photos, videos et cetera appearing all over the internet, so if you’re interested keep checking back and I’ll update this post with other’s wrap-ups, as I’m sure there’ll be many.

If you missed it, the second ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter conference was held from May 31st - June 2nd in the Fort Mason Centre in San Francisco, California, United States of America. Robert, Janneke, Chris and the rest of the Whoooz! team really pulled out the stops, and ran a fantastic conference.

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