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Workflow is a common topic among the EE community, and one important part of that is constantly emphasized: version control! Are you using it? Intimidated? Tune in to this week’s EE podcast where guests Ian Pitts and Adam Wiggall discuss how they use Git for version control with their EE projects, and hopefully their advice soothes your worries. Ian and Adam talk about their workflows, preferred tools and add-ons, and how version control has completely changed the way they work.
For our first episode of 2012, we thought it’d be nice to ask the community about their first EE websites. We had tremendous feedback and collected common threads regarding why they first started using EE, learning how to use it, mistakes made, and what learning outcomes came about. Tune in and reminisce!
For our last podcast of 2011, we look back on the past year and discuss the news and events that affected the EE community. In this extra-long episode, we also pick our favorite add-ons for the year, and mention our favorite episodes since our re-launch. And for you last-minute holiday shoppers, we’ve got suggestions for geek gifts!
Many thanks to EE Insider, as it was a great resource to help compile some of the notable moments for 2011!
Happy holidays! We’ll see you next year!
With EE 1 finally being phased out, it’s become more imperative to upgrade your legacy EE installs to the latest EE2 branch. Now, on Episode 58: EE1 to EE2 of the podcast, Ryan Masuga goes through the details of his journey to upgrade his client sites to EE2: should we even upgrade? Should we consider a clean install with imports instead? What should we look out for? Tune in and find out!
Think you know variables? Think again! EE Podcast’s 57th episode, All About Variables, tackles one of the most used and integral parts of ExpressionEngine. We talk native functionality, touch on optimization, as well as the the variety of third-party add-ons that make the control panel interaction more user-friendly and development a lot more efficient.
EE Podcast has Marcus Neto, the Director of Services at EllisLab as our guest today! The EllisLab Q&A defines “enterprise services,” talks at length about private support services and response times, product evangelism and what it means for sales calls, general EllisLab updates and more! Listen in!
Jacob Russell follows up his EECI 2011 talk, “EE, Faster,” with a visit to EE Podcast! EE & Speed Optimization goes through the key points in getting your site “up to speed.” We discuss best practices in template creation, add-ons that help boost EE site efficiency, and other things to keep in mind in order to have the fastest EE site possible. We also touch on our EECI 2011 experience! Tune in!
Following on the heels of the first multi-language site episode with Tom Jaeger, the EE Podcast takes the Asian perspective with Nicolas Bottari – who is fluent in Japanese and French – on Multi-Language Sites Part Deux. Some of the things we discuss could also be relevant to those working with sanskrit as well as kanji or Chinese characters. We talk about multi-byte characters and the importance of Unicode, right-to-left orientation, things to consider when setting up a multi-language site, some helpful add-ons, and a couple of quirky Asian site requests.
Most ExpressionEngine sites are information-heavy, and inevitably, your client may come to you and ask how we can gather data about people’s experience with the site or the site content. Maybe your client just wants a bit more interactivity. Or, hey, you’re one of the many EE devs who love twisting their fave CMS to go beyond content management and want to provide a “learning environment” for you or clients. If this sounds intriguing, tune in to the latest EE Podcast where we talk data gathering techniques, polls, surveys, and quizzes!
If you like what you hear, there’s still time today and tomorrow to vote for us at the .net awards! Thanks for all your support!
The voting is underway for the .net Awards and you nominated the EE Podcast for the Podcast of the Year award. It’s up against some great podcasts, all of which are general web design and development podcasts. But we can GOTV and win this, right?
The podcast was profiled on the .net magazine site as part of the “top 10 podcasts.”
After handing the podcast off to Lea earlier this year, she and Emily Lewis have relaunched with a beautiful new site, great episodes and even transcripts of the podcasts. The latest show, Mobile Sites with EE was a great 26 minute discussion of what to consider when building for mobile.
Here’s the thing: let’s help them win. To do so, they need your votes. Go to the voting page, scroll down to #4 (“Podcast of the Year”) and vote for “the expressionengine podcast”.
In Episode 52 of the EE Podcast, Lea and Emily discuss the various ways you can create a mobile-ready website with EE. They talk about general web development best practices, including responsive design and development, talk about mobile EE control panels, add-ons that help detect mobile devices, and more, while using the EE Podcast site itself as its mobile-web guinea pig.
Short and sweet at 26 minutes, it also has its transcripts ready for you to read if you don’t have the time to listen!
In the latest episode of the EE Podcast, Lea and Emily talk to Erik Reagan about documenting your ExpressionEngine development project.
In the 36 minute podcast Erik shares his experience and thoughts on what it takes to properly document your project work. Don’t miss the episode links at the bottom of the episode page for some additional reading to go along with the show.
In the latest edition of the EE Podcast, Lea and Emily talk to EllisLab CCO James Mathias. They spent about 30 minutes talking to James about various things related to ExpressionEngine and his work at EllisLab.
James talked about how the user voting for features works and how they solicit and listen to community feedback. He even talked about some features that will be coming in the future (but you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out). All in all, it was good insight into the work that he’s doing in his first month as the Chief Creative Officer at EllisLab.
About 15 minutes into the podcast they talked about the built-in file manger and the Assets module from Pixel & Tonic. As is fairly well-known, Assets was released to much acclaim and the native file manager in EE was (justly or unjustly, depending on your viewpoint) heavily criticized online, especially on Twitter. Some of the criticism, I think, went too far. People forgot what it is like to be civilized and constructive.
With that in mind, it was interesting to hear James talk about how EllisLab views Assets (they think it’s really nice) and their approach to the file manager now that the expectations for it have been raised by the release of Assets (this isn’t just my conjecture, James says as much in the podcast).
Here are a couple of choice quotes from James during the podcast (these happen between 15 and 18 minutes into the episode). In reference to their work on the file manager for EE 2.2, James bluntly said:
Brandon Kelly’s Assets set us back a little bit.
James acknowleged that the bar has been raised but then softened that stance a little by lobbing some criticism about the user experience (UX) of Assets:
I think the way that Assets was approached is a good UX. I think there are some inherently wrong things about it, like mimicking Finder. Finder is a great tool and great UX but it’s unfamiliar to a large portion of computer users. So it’s not necessarily the best solution.
In a response to the podcast, add-on developer Lodewijk (“Low”) Schutte very eloquently described why unfamiliar doesn’t mean bad:
Lack of familiarity does not mean bad UX. It just means unfamiliar. If you take the two extreme positions, you could make a file interface either like Windows Explorer or Mac OS X Finder. Choosing either of the two will exclude the other, so no good choice could be made, according to that stance. Trying to come up with something entirely new is very difficult indeed and will very certainly be unfamiliar to all of your users. And this idea is true for any kind of interface, not just a file manager.
Low is correct here and I would agree with him that “it’s wrong to dismiss an interface/design/UX, just because it’s unfamiliar to a certain portion of your users.”
While I did describe it as “Finder-like” in my Assets First Look video, I think the calling it flawed because it mimics parts of the Mac OS X Finder is misleading and generally incorrect. There are indeed elements of the Assets “window” that do look “Finder-ish,” but the general interaction with the folders on the left and the files on the right isn’t anything specific to OS X (just take a look at this screenshot of Windows 7 ).
I would argue (and, yes, I realize I’m being pedantic) that there’s not even a lack of familiarity with the UX in Assets. The general function of a list of folders or groupings in a left pane and a detail list of files in the right pane is a common UI and UX across both Windows and Mac (and even some flavors of GUIs on Linux).
All that being said, this is only a small part of what they discussed on the show. James had a lot more to talk about new features, some things to expect and what his job entails. Please go listen to the entire EE Podcast episode over at the podcast website.
Disclosure: We are an Official Community Partner of EllisLab and Pixel & Tonic is an advertiser on EE Insider.
A couple of months ago, in anticipation of my move to Austin, TX and work on a new show, I turned over the EE Podcast to my capable co-host Lea Alcantara.
Lea has been working to bring the show back and she has also recruited a co-host. But she’s not going to tell you who it is. You have to play Guess the Co-Host. One lucky winner will take home a spectacular (I’m totally biased) and wonderful (see?) ExpressionEngine training package from Mijingo.
Lea is giving clues on the EE Podcast twitter feed, so follow along and submit your guess (but be sure to follow the rules).
Good luck!
On last Thursday’s live podcast, Lea and I talked to Rick Ellis, founder of EllisLab. If you haven’t met Rick before or heard him speak at EECI last year, he’s an extremely interesting person with a career in music and audio before learning how to develop for the web.
During the conversation we talk about the history behind EllisLab (and ExpressionEngine), Rick’s past careers and what he’s up to now in his founder role. This is one of my favorite episodes and I think you’ll enjoy it, too.
Listen or download at 5by5: EE Podcast 44: Rick Ellis of EllisLab
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