EE in the Wild: Hivelogic Revisited

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the migration of Dan Benjamin’s popular Hivelogic website from a custom Ruby on Rails application to ExpressionEngine.

Dan posted an article to his site detailing his motivation and thinking behind the switch to ExpressionEngine:

But in the end, at long last, there was a winner: ExpressionEngine, a flexible, feature-rich publishing tool with my kind of sensibilities and content-focused priorities. It worked the way I wanted it to work, and I found it very easy to customize. It’s a commercial application, which I see as a plus these days. And there are great resources available for getting started. I used Ryan Irelan’s ExpressionEngine screencasts, an invaluable resource, to help me to integrate the new design with relative ease. I found answers to my implementation questions quickly and easily in the EE forums (questions there are frequently answered by the developers themselves). Hivelogic has been running on ExpressionEngine for about a month so far, and I’ve been very happy with it.