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More Video from the EE Roadshow
November 16th, 2009
Yes, it’s finally here. We’ve put up the rest of the video from the Roadshow sessions.
Drawing {exp:lines} in the Sand
by Jenn Lukas, Brian Warren, Mark Huot
Deploying and Maintaining EE Using Version Control
by Jason Hudnutt
Performance Tuning EE
by Matt Perry
Developing & Marketing EE Add-Ons
by Fred Boyle , Mark Huot, Brandon Kelly, and Ryan Masuga
10 Ways to Improve Your EE Site Development
by Ryan Irelan
Video Clips from the EE Roadshow
October 6th, 2009
We’re going to be putting out video of the entire Roadshow, and here’s the first batch: Interviews with Roadshow Guests:
Travis Smith and Kevin Shoesmith
Sue Crocker, Expression Engine and Angie Herrera, 420 Creative
Stay tuned for more videos, including videos of the sessions—and do check the schedule page for links to the speakers’ powerpoints and PDFs.
Register for the Roadshow before September 25th for a chance to win the EE Roadshow Grand Prize
September 21st, 2009
A roadshow packed with top EE add-on developers deserves a prize pack of top EE add-ons, so anyone signed up for the EE Roadshow before September 25 will be entered in a draw to win the EE Roadshow Prize. It includes:
ExpressionEngine Commercial License with free upgrade to EE 2.0 (EllisLab)
ExpressionEngine Forum Module (EllisLab)
ExpressionEngine Multiple Site Manager (EllisLab)
Playa 2 (Brandon Kelly)
Wygwam (Brandon Kelly)
User Module (Solspace)
Tag Module (Solspace)
Diggie (Solspace)
Gallery Extended 2 (Solspace)
FoxEE E-Commerce Module (HCC Development)
12 month S-2 hosting package (Engine Hosting)
That’s more than $1000 worth of EE Software that could would give the winner a huge head start in building a phenomenal ExpressionEngine site.
The draw will be made following the Add-on panel session at 5 p.m.
Hurry. Register now if you haven’t already.
Look to Carpool? Share a Room?
September 17th, 2009
If you are interested in sharing a room or carpooling, there are threads on EE Forums:
Car pool thread
Room share thread
Campaign Monitor Sponsors EE Roadshow
September 17th, 2009
Campaign Monitor is one of the coolest companies I know. For example, here’s how Campaign Monitor does lunch.
Not only are they brilliant, they offer great customer service and the perfect way for me to handle multiple client lists with login access for the clients to their specific reports.
Beautiful + Functional + Friendly
What more do you want? Oh, why yes, they do have an ExpressionEngine extension (as well as Drupal and Joomla extensions).
Find Campaign Monitor on Twitter and Facebook.
Thanks for sponsoring EE Roadshow!
Happy Cog Joins As Speakers & Sponsors
September 17th, 2009
We have a fantastic line up of speakers, including Happy Cog‘s Jenn Lukas, Brian Warren and Mark Huot, who are going to talk about defining project scope and requirements.
Happy Cog consistently delivers beautiful websites from site structure to interface design, and from branding to content development. We’re really happy to have them on board for the session “Drawing {exp:lines} in the Sand”.
Drawing {exp:lines} in the Sand, 11 am to Noon
The web, as a medium, is constantly evolving, which means so is your project’s scope. Learn about some of the tools and strategies you can use to drive out requirements before you even begin a line of ExpressionEngine code. Designing a process that nails down your scope up front will save you (and your clients) development time in the end. The friendly folks at Happy Cog will take you down a virtual memory lane and walk through how they ensure their development ends on time and on budget.
See All Sessions
Register for EE Roadshow, October 2 in Seattle
Thanks also to Happy Cog for sponsoring the conference.
Engine Hosting is sponsoring the EE Roadshow
September 4th, 2009
The ExpressionEngine Roadshow is pleased to welcome Engine Hosting as a sponsor of this year’s conference in Seattle.
EngineHosting specializes in load-balanced, highly available ExpressionEngine web-hosting solutions. And while EngineHosting’s solutions are highly optimized for clients in need of ExpressionEngine hosting, they work equally as well for other dynamic web applications based on PHP and MySQL. They provide fully-managed web-hosting solutions, including extensive on and off-site backups, and monitor all of their operations via in-house and extensive 3rd party global-monitoring locations.
EngineHosting operates out of three state-of-the art data centers in three different cities in North America: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Edina, Minnesota, and Fremont, California.
Some notable sites hosting with Engine Hosting include: Clifbar.com, Duoh.com, iLounge.com, AquariumofPacific.org, ABAJournal.com, Lunabar.com, Zocalo.com.mx.
Nevin Lyne, Engine Hosting’s CTO, said: “I think its vitally important for events such as the EERoadShow to exist to foster deeper understanding of ExpressionEngine as a product, and the ecosystem that has grown up around it. These events allow the great minds in the community to meet in person, to share their experiences and knowledge between each other, and overall just have a great time in the process!”
Nevin is also attending the Roadshow and will be giving a short talk at the EE Roadshow party. You can follow Nevin on Twitter—http://twitter.com/nevinlyne
The EE Roadshow welcomes Solspace as a top level sponsor
August 26th, 2009
The organizers of the ExpressionEngine Roadshow are thrilled that Solspace is a sponsor of this year’s conference in Seattle.
Solspace, Inc. is one of the oldest and most trusted ExpressionEngine development companies. Entrepreneurs, non-profits and businesses small and large have trusted its team of highly experienced designers and programmers with their online presence. Solspace specializes in pushing the boundaries of ExpressionEngine with both custom development and creative thinking to help create some of the most ambitious EE powered websites.
Mitchell Kimbrough, owner of Solspace, said, “We were honored when approached to sponsor an event of his making. We love to give back to the EE community. One of our favorite ways is to fund educational and community building initiatives.”
Solspace is the creator of some of the most popular EE modules and extensions, including Freeform and User. You can browse their extensive ExpressionEngine add-ons, some of which have been voted the best available for EE on devot:ee.
Some of Solspace’s clients include IDEO, BMI, and ABA Journal.
Check out their blog, or follow them on Twitter: @solspace
The EE Roadshow announces Blue Flavor as its first official sponsor
August 21st, 2009
The ExpressionEngine Roadshow is pleased to welcome Blue Flavor as its first top sponsor for this year’s event.
Nick Finck, Blue Flavor principal, says it is important to sponsor the EE Roadshow because ExpressionEngine and its community is central to the success of his organization: “We have adopted ExpressionEngine as a core aspect of our business. We feel it’s a versatile system that can be used for nearly any job we are tasked with. Having said that, we felt we should give back to the EE community; to all those developers who have created modules that make it easy for us to work with our clients and to EllisLabs who made ExpressionEngine what it is today.”
Blue Flavor is a recognized expert in “web standards” and a pioneering leader in the web standards community with several of their core team members, both past and present, being recognized as leaders in their field. Some of Blue Flavor’s clients include: Gaia Online, Geffen Records, New York Review of Books, SXSW, and the University of Denver.
Check out their Blue Flavored blog, or follow them on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blueflavor.
If you or your organization are interested in becoming sponsors, please get in touch with .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Hop Studios.
EE Roadshow Panel Session to Feature Brandon Kelly and Ryan Masuga
August 10th, 2009
EE Roadshow organizers are thrilled to announce that popular ExpressionEngine add-on developers Brandon Kelly (Playa, Gypsy, FieldFrame) and Ryan Masuga (Masuga Design: MD Markitup, MD Live Search, MD Show Expired) are taking part in this year’s event.
They’ll be joining Travis Smith (Hop Studios: Deeploy Helper, Defensio for EE, Edit This), one of the EE Roadshow organizers, on a panel to talk about the successes and failures, the how-tos and the whys, of building and charging for (or giving away) add-ons for EE.
Ryan Masuga is also the creator of devot:ee, a premier resource for information and community ratings on ExpressionEngine add-ons.
The panel will be rounded out in the coming weeks with a fourth participant, but whoever joins the panel will be in company with an exciting group of developers who will impart what they know about the world of EE add-on development.
Owner of GearLive.com, Andru Edwards, to be at the EE Roadshow
August 4th, 2009
The ExpressionEngine Roadshow Team is excited that internet entrepreneur and owner of GearLive.com, Andru Edwards, will be joining us at this year’s event.
Gear Live, one of the internet’s largest EE sites with nearly 1.5 million page views a month, features technology and gadgetry news and is a testament to ExpressionEngine’s ability to handle extremely large, high traffic sites.
Don’t miss the chance to meet Andru in person and find out for yourself why he chooses ExpressionEngine to run his site and how he’s made EE work so well for for Gear Live.
Register now (and until August 7) to get our early bird discount, just like Andru did.
EERoadshow Registration Opens
July 20th, 2009
EE Roadshow registration has kicked off, and to get the ball rolling, we’re offering an early-bird signup rate: Just $199 until Aug. 7th.
The ExpressionEngine Roadshow is on October 2nd in Seattle. It’s a travelling conference designed to bring together experts and regular users to learn ExpressionEngine techniques and share insider tips about (you guessed it) ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter.
Don’t dawdle. Click here to register.
Bring Three, Get in Free
July 14th, 2009
This year, we’re offering a special opportunity: bring three other people, get in free.
How does it work? Just let us know the names of the three people you’re bringing. When they’ve bought tickets, we’ll give you a discount code for a free ticket. If you’ve already bought a ticket, we’ll refund your payment. It’s that easy.
Limit: one free ticket per person. And of course, the final determination is up to the EERoadshow organizers. But enough dwelling on the negatives. Get started!
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