Thursday: PrEE-Party
Hosted at Office Nomads on October 1 at 7 pm. Free admission but RSVP so we have enough drinks.
RSVP for the PrEE-Party
Roadshow Schedule
& Sessions
8:30am-9am
Early Check-in
You know what to do: show up, get a badge, grab a coffee and a good seat near the front.
9am-10am
Breakfast Mingle with Paul Burdick
by Paul Burdick
Paul Burdick will accompany breakfast with a few short words about Hermes, add-ons, and development for ExpressionEngine.
10am-11am
EE 2.0 & The Future of Content Management Systems
by Leslie Camacho
EllisLab released one of the first commercially licensed blog tools called pMachine Pro. It immediately let small teams compete with big teams, with larger budgets. Within a year it was clear that the best pM Pro users weren’t using it for blogging, but for building advanced websites. That’s when we saw the need for a hybrid application that was developer friendly. This idea launched as ExpressionEngine.
Over a year ago we began to see that the very best EE users were not building websites anymore, they were building web applications, using EE more as a framework. That brings us to ExpressionEngine 2.0, now built on EllisLab’s critically acclaimed Open Source php framework CodeIgniter. Here’s what it means for your business.
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11am-Noon
Drawing {exp:lines} in the Sand
by Jenn Lukas, Brian Warren, Mark Huot
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.
1pm-2pm
Deploying and Maintaining EE Using Version Control
by Jason Hudnutt
Learn how to deploy and maintain multiple ExpressionEngine websites with Git version control using a single source repository while ignoring installation and site specific files and directories such as configuration files, CSS, Images, Javascript and ExpressionEngine Templates.
2pm-3pm
Performance Tuning EE
by Matt Perry
Perry will tell the continuing story of “Grist” magazine, and of coaxing more and more performance out of a complex web application built on EE.
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3pm-4pm
10 Ways to Improve Your EE Site Development
by Ryan Irelan
Spend an hour with Ryan Irelan as he shows some useful techniques for improving how you create websites with ExpressionEngine. Learn things like tuning your EE site for the best performance, building robust SAEFs and best practices for bringing your site templates to life.
4pm-5pm
Developing & Marketing EE Add-Ons
by Fred Boyle , Mark Huot, Brandon Kelly, and Ryan Masuga
Moderator: Travis Smith
A panel of several of the top developers for EE. They’ll discuss the successes and failures, the how-tos and the whys, of building and charging for (or giving away) add-ons for EE.
Fred Boyle (nGen Works), Mark Huot (Happy Cog), Brandon Kelly (Pixel & Tonic) and Ryan Masuga (Masuga Design and devot:ee) will be speaking.
Travis Smith (Hop Studios) will moderate.
5pm-8pm
Celebration Time: Closing Party
by Kevin Shoesmith
Wrap it all up in style. Drinks on the house, thanks to sponsor EngineHosting.
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