It was a nice surprise to see the ExpressionEngine Podcast nominated for Podcast of the Year for the .net awards.
This initial list will be shortened, so if you dig the EE Podcast, please vote for us! After you vote they will create a short list and from there the judges will decide the winners.
Can you help us out? Head over to the .net awards website and submit your vote for the ExpressionEngine Podcast. Thanks!
Posted on Aug 19, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
In the latest episode of the EE Podcast, Dan, Lea and I talked to our favorite houseboat owner, Lodewijk Schutte (“Low”). I’m sure you know Low through his EECI talks and his EE add-ons. We asked Low to join us on the show to talk about using PHP in your EE templates.
This past June, Lodewijk Schutte (“Low”) gave a fascinating talk at EECI in San Francisco about different ways you can use PHP in your templates and gain a ton of functionality in the process. It was one of my favorite talks of the entire conference. Low joins us on the podcast to further discuss PHP in templates and share his experience, tips and knowledge.
The show lasted about 30 minutes and was packed full of great advice for EE users. Listen or watch the whole thing over at 5by5: EE Podcast #27: Waiter, there’s PHP in my templates!
Posted on Aug 11, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
We’ve gotten a lot of requests for a show on e-commerce with ExpressionEngine. I’m not an expert on e-commerce on EE so I never felt comfortable leading an entire show on it. Matt Weinberg, however, is well-versed on this topic and he kindly accepted the invitation to be on the show.
In this episode of the podcast we spend 30 minutes talking to Matt about best practices and a couple of solid ways to implement e-commerce on your EE-powered website.
Watch or listen to the show at 5by5.tv: Episode 26: E-Commerce and ExpressionEngine
Posted on Aug 06, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
It’s been a couple of weeks since the release of ExpressionEngine 2.1 and we’ve all had time to play with the latest version of our favorite CMS. This week Lea, Dan and I sat down and talked about our thoughts on using EE 2.1. We covered some of our favorite features and the different between Snippets and Embed Templates.
The podcast runs only 34 minutes and is a free audio or video download from 5by5.tv: EE Podcast #25: Talking EE 2.1
Posted on Jul 29, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
In episode 20 of the EE Podcast, Dan and Lea (I was absent due to illness) discuss tips for moving from design to implementation into EE. Be sure to check out the show notes for links to some great resources.
Subscribe, download and listen (or watch): EE Podcast 20: Integrating a Design into EE
Posted on Jun 15, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
Today I spent about 30 minutes talking to Dan and our special guest Lea Alcantara about mistakes we’ve made while creating websites in ExpressionEngine. We discussed improper hosting, making the Control Panel easy for your clients to use, setting up proper 404s, not piling add-ons on top of each and more.
Subscribe, download, listen or watch: EE Podcast 18: The Mistakes We’ve Made
Posted on May 25, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
One of the best things about doing the podcast is all of the email we get. The email comes in with corrections, show topic suggestions and how-to questions. We’re not able to do a show on every suggested topic, but I keep them all for future reference. And the future is today.
In the latest episode of the EE Podcast, Dan and I go through emails from listeners and answer their questions. This podcast episode was also broadcast live online, so we also answered some questions from the live chatroom.
Subscribe, download and listen (or watch): EE Podcast 17: Listener Mailbag
Posted on May 21, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
In the latest episode of the ExpressionEngine Podcast (by 5by5 Studios) we tackle the large topic of add-on development. To help us shed some light on what it takes to create and sell add-ons, we invited Brandon Kelly of Pixel & Tonic and Ryan Masuga of devot:ee.
Subscribe, download and listen: EE Podcast 16: Developing and Selling Add-ons
Posted on May 14, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
The June issue of .net Magazine features an interview with Dan Benjamin (read it on the web), of 5by5 Studios and my co-host on the EE Podcast.
Dan talked about his work setting up the company (he podcasts full-time and makes his entire living from it) and mentioned some of the shows he produces.
I share editing duties on The Ruby Show and The Dev Show with Jason Seifer, who co-hosts both shows with me. The same is true with Ryan Irelan, my co-host on the ExpressionEngine Podcast. But all of the other shows, like The Conversation, The Pipeline, Uptime, I record, edit and produce myself.
Congrats, Dan and thanks for the mention!
Posted on May 07, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
In the latest episode of the EE Podcast, Dan and I talk about the things you can do to make client hand-off of a project easier.
You’ve spent weeks developing an ExpressionEngine-powered website for your client. The site looks great, works great and you’re ready to hand it over to the client. What now?
We not only discuss things you can do, but also add-ons and other materials to help you have a smooth transition from development to hand-off.
Subscribe, download and listen: EE Podcast 15: Preparing for Client Hand-off
Posted on Apr 28, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
My desktop during the recording of the latest EE Podcast. Click on the image for larger sizes.
For those that like to nerd out about gear:
I use Backpack to plan the podcast topics, Sound Studio to record (and ProTools to edit) my own audio and we use Skype to hear each other.
My mic is a Shure SM7B mounted on a Heil boom arm, which is attached to the wall next to my desk. It is routed through a Joe Meek ThreeQ and fed into my computer using an M-Audio USB box.
Posted on Apr 02, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
Dan and I sat down this week on the podcast to talk about pulling external content into your EE site:
Have you ever had to deal with external sources of content, like an RSS feed, Twitter, Facebook or even an XML document that Bob from IT manually updates each morning? In this episode Dan and Ryan talk about different ways of getting external content into your EE site.
Subscribe, download and listen to the EE Podcast.
Posted on Apr 02, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
It’s been a while, but Dan and I have released a new episode of the EE Podcast. We’re working on getting these published on a more regular schedule. Thank you for listening to the podcast and please let us know what you think!
This time we talk about different ways of entering content in EE: what works, what’s best and what we do.
In this episode of the podcast Dan and Ryan catch up on some news and happenings and then talk about the different ways of allowing clients to publish rich content through ExpressionEngine. Do you install a WYSIWYG editor, teach them HTML, give them specific HTML to use for certain situations? The choices are many.
We discuss the popular WYSIWYG editors for EE and other ways of making it as easy as possible for clients to enter rich content into their site.
The episode is an easy listen at 27 minutes. Subscribe, download and listen.
Posted on Mar 26, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
We missed last week, but we’re back with another action-packed, fun-filled, heart-wrenching, time-traveling, black smoke-fighting episode of the EE Podcast. We were asked to talk about search in EE, so that’s what we did.
In this episode we have a conversation about searching ExpressionEngine content. We cover the default EE simple search, advanced search as well as some power tools that allow you to smartly and easily search your EE content.
The episode is 22 minutes of a search through search. Give it a listen!
Subscribe, download and listen to the EE Podcast.
Posted on Feb 26, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
The latest episode of the ExpressionEngine Podcast is out and this time Dan and I talk about handling images in EE. Here’s an excerpt from the show notes:
In this episode, we respond to a popular reader question: what’s the best way to handle dynamically sizing images and general best practices? We answer that question, and talk about the built-in management tools, while highlighting a few of the add-ons available in both EE 1.6.x and EE 2.0 to handle and manage images.
Subscribe, download and listen: EE Podcast 11
Posted on Feb 12, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
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