Gmaps 2.9.4 Supports New Google Maps Style

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A new release of Gmaps, the add-on that allows you to integrate maps in your EE-powered website, adds support for the new Google maps style.

You enable the new style using the enable_new_style="" parameter.

Gmaps costs $25 and is available at Devot:ee.

EE Conference Has Six Workshops

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One hallmark of this year’s EE Conference is the offering of extra workshops and classroom sessions. There six topics to choose from and the cost ranges from $175 to $650. These sessions are in addition to a conference ticket.

Conference tickets are on sale for the event in Portland. There are two tiers of tickets: $275 and $450.

Your Weekly devot:ee - May 16, 2013

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• Maps ($) by Joel Bradbury
  Maps is a simple Google Maps fieldtype. Nothing special, nothing complex. Single markers. Drop them in place. Move on. It works with everything : Matrix, Low Variables even Safecracker.
• Facebook Count by Caddis
  Return Facebook page like or share count.

EE Podcast: Get to Know #eecms: Mitchell Kimbrough

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The latest EE Podcast continues the “Get to Know #eecms” series with President and CEO of Solspace, Mitchell Kimbrough! Mitchell talks about how he began his career in web development, leading to the creation of Solspace. He also shares his leadership philosophy and talks about what’s on the horizon for Solspace. Stay tuned

Austin-based Novahurst Creative Seeks Front-End Developer

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The post title says it all. Novahurst Creative, a shop based right here in the Breakfast Taco Capitol of the World, is looking for a freelance front-end developer to help them handle projects going forward.

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What They’re Saying About EE

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This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

Hey #eecms, those who have kindly offered to donate for my add-ons - please help orphans in Cambodia: bit.ly/CCCPayPal

— Mark Croxton (@croxton) May 8, 2013

Mark Croxton created the great Stash add-on, among many others you may use, like Switchee. Stash is free but he is requesting that you donate to his choice of charity: The Cambodian Children’s Charity.

Link Vault Updated

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Last week Masuga Design updated Link Vault, their add-on that makes it easy to create and track protected download links in your EE site.

Version 1.3.0 has some additions, like ability to create pretty URLs and append the file name to the URL. There are some refinements and bug fixes included.

I have personally used Link Vault and can recommend it as a solid way to track and protect downloads.

Read about the changes in the this version and learn more about Link Vault.

Your Weekly devot:ee - May 9, 2013

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• CAS Elapsed Time by Chris Adams Studios
  Displays the elapsed time passed from a timestamp.
• Gmaps FieldType ($) by Rein de Vries
  The official FieldType extension for the Gmaps module. Simply adding markers + modify your Map from within your entry/CP.
• Category Select by Rein de Vries
  This extension will convert the category checkboxes to a select element, handy when you only need one category.
• eeXam ($) by Coffee Bean Design
  eeXam is an eLearning fieldtype/module combo for ExpressionEngine 2. It can be used for exams, quizzes, assessments or polls. Create simple tests or complex training courses for your ExpressionEngine Members.

Superfish Menus for the EE CP

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There’s a new extension available that makes it possible to use the Superfish drop-down menu plugin in the ExpressionEngine control panel.

You should install it on your copy of EE and give it a shot. The main navigation in the control panel no longer needs a click to open and Superfish includes hoverIntent functionality so the menus only open when they should.

Here’s a quick look at the normal EE menus vs the Superfish menus. EE menus are first. Take a look:

Learn Add-on Development from Erik Reagan

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Taking place in beautiful Savannah, Georgia is the latest installment of Train-ee’s ExpressionEngine Add-on Development Class taught by Erik Reagan of Focus Lab.

Erik has a passion for helping people both on and off the web. He is a web developer based in beautiful Savannah Georgia where he was born and bred. There he leads the development at his company Focus Lab, LLC. His EE teaching spans private training and consulting, public conferences and online blogs like NETUTS+ and EE Insider.

The class run Tuesday May 21ts through Friday May 24th and covers “planning, building, testing and delivering add-ons.”

Learn more and register now.

Your Weekly devot:ee - May 2, 2013

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• Superfish EE Control Panel by Joel Birch
  Adds Superfish and hover intent to the EE Control Panel flyout menus.
• Login Override by David DeHaan
  Allows a user to be logged into an EE site via template tag.
• Date Manipulation by Rein de Vries
  This module will manipulate all dates and times in a creative way (plain text), just like the PHP function strtotime().
• Google Plus SSO - Single Sign On ($) by 25hweb
  Allows your users sign on to your site through a Google account. If the user accesses for the first time to your site, it will be automatically registered, thus becoming a native ExpressionEngine user (you can choose which group to register users).

EE Podcast: Dev Environments with Erik Reagan

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How do you manage new ExpressionEngine development when you have a live site that can’t be interrupted? For the latest EE Podcast, FocusLab’s Erik Reagan returns to the show to talk about working in a dev environment to help retain the integrity and uptime of a live, production site. Erik shares the processes and workflows they follow at FocusLab, including version control, content entry and database management, as well as their EE Master Config setup for multiple environments. Tune in now!

Thanks to CSS Dev Conference for sponsoring this episode!

EE 2.6 Supports Relative Dates, Easier DST

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EE 2.6 has some improvements with how it handles dates and time.

First, there’s no more messing with choosing whether or not you’re observing Daylight Savings Time. EllisLab says:

With the new PHP version requirements for ExpressionEngine, we were able to take advantage of more modern date handling techniques to eliminate the DST setting all together. All you will have to do is choose your timezone and we

Peers Conference, June 26-28

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Peers conference is taking place at the end of June this year (not far away!) in Chicago and features speakers covering topics on Laravel, ExpressionEngine, Craft and business.

We’re going beyond the same old slide deck: we’ve curated a diverse group of speakers in development and business tracks bound to keep you on your toes. Want to learn something new? Come and be challenged in our coding workshops. Sit in on a roundtable and hear what’s really going on in your industry. At Peers we

The Key to ExpressionEngine Performance

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_Eric Lamb is the developer of professional and enterprise grade ExpressionEngine add-ons. Founded in 2009 Eric

Your Weekly devot:ee - April 25, 2013

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• Lovely Sorted Add-ons by Dan Diemer
  Lovely Sorted Add-ons groups your Modules, Extensions, Accessories and Fieldtypes into separate Enabled and Disabled tables in the Control Panel. It also standardizes some terminology across all types of add-ons.
• Filter Entries ($) by a&m impact
  Want to filter your entries based on their custom fields? This extension will filter entries for a certain channel based on user input and allows you to display them using a CE tag! Inlcudes support for playa fields!
• Field Pack by Pixel & Tonic (Brandon Kelly)
  Field Pack gives you a handful of useful little fieldtypes.
• Publisher Lite ($) by Brian Litzinger (Bold Minded)
  Publisher Lite is the workflow only version of Publisher. It does not support multiple languages, but you get all the other benefits of Publisher.
• Hijack by Blue Coast Web
  Inject arbitrary Javascript into the ExpressionEngine control panel.
• Authentic by Blue Coast Web
  HTTP Basic Authentication plugin for ExpressionEngine. Password protect an arbitrary public facing page or URL without involving either the EE Member module or the web server configuration (.htaccess, htpasswd etc).

Native Relationship Field and Playa Side-by-Side

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Here’s a quick (silent) video of the two field types and how they work.