EECI 2010: EllisLab keynote

I’ve already posted two announcements from the EllisLab keynote this morning at EECI 2010, but I also want to share my notes. I quickly jotted these down on my iPad and have only done a cursory proofread and editing.

Rick Ellis opens up with a science lesson. Butterfly effect. The things we do now can have an affect later on down the line. He’s talking about his first content management system, pMachine and later ExpressionEngine.

Here’s some of the history:

• pixelbuzz site was his first site
• used 9 frames served dynamically using JavaScript
• highlander tv show site was his first site
• Nancy Sinatra was his next site  
• lots of JavaScript used
 
• Nancy needed a way to manage her content, so Rick wrote a little scripting engine initially called “Power Trip” (audience laughs)
 
• this turned into pmachine (publishing machine)
• now we have ExpressionEngine

Paraphrasing his closing remarks:

The work we do on the web is important to human progress and human communication. Each one of us is a part of the process with our contributions. “It’s only when you combine the bricks that you have structures that have strength, beauty and purpose.”

Leslie Camacho:

“Community, community, community”

Leslie wanted to talk about e-commerce for EE.

• Foxee
• CarthThrob
• shopigniter - SaaS have major funding and EE 2 integration is in mind for the team

These three solutions give you everything you need for almost all of the implementations situations you’ll face.

Official Community Partners:

• EE Insider is the official community news outlet.
• devot:ee official community add-ons site
• Show-ee is the official showcase site of expressionengine sites

Leslie Doherty (@mrsflinger) is the new Community Architect at EllisLab. Hooray!

Derek Jones

EE 2.1 will be the next build of EE 2m. Hooray!

Derek Allard

Derek announced EllisLab’s latest product MojoMotor: “The publishing engine that does less.”

I wrote some more thoughts about MojoMotor in a recent post.