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ExpressionEngine 2.0: A Quick-Start Guide

eequickstartguideI’m happy to announce that my book, ExpressionEngine 2.0: A Quick-Start Guide, is now available in ebook format from The Pragmatic Programmers. The print edition will follow and will also be available in all major bookstores (Amazon, B&N, etc).

The book is part of PragProg’s “Beta Book” program, which is a great way to get books out early and get feedback from the community. Buying the beta ebook entitles you to the complete, professionally indexed and copyedited, published version of the ebook and any updates between now and then (they notify you when there’s a new version available). You also have the option of buying both the beta book (which you get immediately) and pre-ordering the print book (which you get later, once it’s in print).

The First Book on EE 2.0

This book covers EE 2.0 only. There’s an entire chapter on the new File Manager and one on some advanced techniques for making your templates more flexible and powerful. Just like with my screencasts, the goal was to teach you the best practices of building websites in EE 2.0. The book is written in straight-forward prose that guide you each step of the way towards completing your first EE 2.0 website. You can read the table of contents and a couple of excerpts over at the PragProg website.

Code Included

All of the code used or referenced in the book is available in a compressed file, as a separate download. Additionally, when reading the ebook you can click on the gray box above the code samples and download that snippet of code. It’s like magic!

Running EE 2.0

I put together a simple website for the book and it is, of course, powered by ExpressionEngine 2.0 PB. It’s running a recent build and is deployed directly from my SVN repository using Capistrano.

Available Now!

The gerbils are ready and waiting to build your PDF copy of the book. Get ahead and learn EE 2.0 now with the ExpressionEngine 2.0 Quick-Start Guide.

 

Posted on Dec 09, 2009 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: ExpressionEngine 2, News

Mike09:13 on 12.09.2009

Is there a way to preview the book?

neil10:51 on 12.09.2009

Awesome, thank you. I am extremely glad you are writing this.

Ryan Irelan13:30 on 12.09.2009

Mike: You can download some sample chapters and view the Table of Contents at the publisher website: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/riexen/expressionengine-2-0

leroy Lyne | for the kids02:13 on 12.12.2009

Thanks Ryan, I’m going to download mine at work where we have one of the most powerful color printer on the planet.

Shannon21:01 on 12.12.2009

I was on Prag the other day and noticed this. I will definitely be buying this book once I start using 2.0. For now I need to stick to 1.6.8 until all the extensions are updated and everything is stable.

I would love to see and extensive right up on how you manage EE with svn and Capristrano. Do you have dev and production version? I would be curious to know how you handle a changing database.

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