Announced earlier today on Twitter, EECI has made available some of the videos from EECI 2009 and EECI 2010 in San Francisco.
Lots of great presentations there, including one of my favorites: Matt Weinberg on e-commerce and ExpressionEngine.
Posted on Apr 05, 2011 by Ryan Irelan
Leevi Graham’s video has been posted from EECI 2009. The talk goes into the subject of developing your own add-ons.
EECI2009 | Leevi Graham from EECI2009 on Vimeo.
Our compliments, as always, to Whoooz! Webmedia for doing such a fine job with this conference.
Posted on Nov 17, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Mr. Boyink presents his topic: “Quoting & Planning ExpressionEngine Projects” at EECI 2009:
EECI2009 | Michael Boyink from EECI2009 on Vimeo.
Thanks to Whooz! webmedia for allowing us to post this and all talks from EECI 2009.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Here’s Brandon Kelly’s presentation titled “Making a Market Out of Our Community” from EECI 2009:
EECI2009 | Brandon Kelly from EECI2009 on Vimeo.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Here is Veerle Pieters’s presentation “Designing and using the new EE 2.0 (beta) inteface”:
EECI2009 | Veerle Pieters from EECI2009 on Vimeo.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Every EE developer’s favourite Canadian’s EECI speech is now available for your pleasure.
EECI2009 | Derek Allard from EECI2009 on Vimeo.
Thanks to Whoooz! Webmedia for letting us post this.
Posted on Nov 11, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
EECI 2009 is over, but the great material that sprang forth from the conference is just being released. Here’s Simon Collison, of world-famous Erskine Design, giving his presentation “Five Years of Quiet Revolution”:
EECI2009 | Simon Collison from EECI2009 on Vimeo.
A big thanks to Whoooz! Webmedia for letting us re-post this video and for just being wonderful people.
Posted on Nov 10, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Normally, in this post, we’d give you tons of links to all the coverage of EECI and ExpressionEngine 2. Because we enjoy when we’re allowed to be lazy, and because so many other members of the community have summarized for us, we’ll just post links to them.
Simon Collison, a patriarch of modern web-design and ExpressionEngine, has written a fantastic summary of ExpressionEngine 2 Week and the EECI Conference.
If that wasn’t enough, Leslie Camacho used the official EE pulpit to broadcast some more details on licensing and links to all our articles. Again, we’d like to thank the EllisLab team for being absolutely phenomenal over the past few weeks as we put everything together.
Patrik Theander has made an excellent tribute video to EECI 2009.
Then, on the official EECI website, there is the new slides and video page, which should quench your thirst for the conference. Also, stay tuned to their Vimeo page for what will hopefully be more presentations.
It is really a great time to learn about ExpressionEngine, and the philosophy hasn’t changed, so make sure to get some screencasts from the boss around here, Mr. Ryan Irelan.
Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Matthew Pennell, of the Watchmaker Project, has compiled some absolutely fantastic notes on the EECI conference presentations:
Thanks for putting all this together, Matthew, for those of us who missed it.
Posted on Oct 26, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Below is the keynote from Leslie Camacho, given at EECI 2009. Enjoy, and many thanks to the conference for posting this great video!
EECI2009 | Keynote Leslie Camacho from EECI2009 on Vimeo.
Posted on Oct 26, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
Upon arriving in Leiden by train from the Amsterdam airport, I made the short walk from the train station to the hotel. Before I even stepped inside the hotel, I got my first introduction of the conference. Through the window of the lobby, there was none other than Leevi Graham, typing away on his laptop, most likely writing another new add-on.
That began the amazing experience of meeting familiar names but new faces in the community and hearing them speak about their experiences using ExpressionEngine to develop websites.
I have to acknowledge the conference organizers, Whoooz! Webmedia. Robert, Adriaan and their team put together an amazingly well-produced conference. The venue—an old factory building in the heart of Leiden—was unlike any other conference venue I’ve been to, equipped with a sound system, stage lighting and, most importantly, a bar. I’ve been to quite a few conferences, some done well, others not so much and I was really impressed with how they put it all together. If this is any indication of the future EECI conferences, you will want to attend one.
As is always the case with conferences, the real value is with the people attending; I had a lot of interesting conversations with other attendees and speakers. It was great to get to know people that I had only previously communicated with online.
The sessions were also excellent. Leslie Camacho opened it up with a look at the history and future of ExpressionEngine. We got to hear Simon Collison talk about Erskine’s use of ExpressionEngine, EllisLab Technology Architect Derek Allard explained how the development team works, as well as his experience and process while building the new File Manager in EE 2.0.
The talented Veerle Pieters walked the audience through her design process for the EE 2.0 control panel, starting with the creative brief, wireframes and then several design iterations. We learned how to sell add-ons from Brandon Kelly and how to build add-ons from Leevi Graham. Mike Boyink showed us his project planning process, including his project wall (which he recreated on stage). I really enjoy seeing how other people work on and plan EE websites.
The second day was filled with workshops on ExpressionEngine (and CodeIgniter). I started my day learning the ins and outs of add-on development from former EllisLab CTO Paul Burdick (not Lead Developer at Solspace). But there were also several other excellent workshops on Day 2.
It was a pleasure to meet so many EE users. I met people from South Africa, Greece, Germany, Switzerland and the UK; our community is thriving across the globe. I look forward to seeing everyone again next year!
After a long trip back to the States, I’m home again and ready to kick off our week-long look at EE 2.0. Stay tuned!
Posted on Oct 25, 2009 by Ryan Irelan
Despite having my Nikon D90 with me, I didn’t take a lot of photos and I certainly didn’t take any as nice as what Matthew Pennell did on Flickr. Click through for shots of speakers, attendees and more.
Posted on Oct 25, 2009 by Ryan Irelan
EllisLab El Presidento Leslie Camacho opened the conference on Thursday morning with a keynote on ExpressionEngine’s history, community and future. He also included—via a video by CTO Derek Jones— some important announcements about EE 2.0 (more on that in a moment).
Leslie talked about the foundation they’ve built for EE 2.0: It’s a proven CMS in the market and has 102,000 registered members (presumably on their forums) and the base for EE 2.0 (CodeIgniter) is a “highly praised framework.” The creator of PHP described CodeIgniter as “faster, light and the least like a framework.”
ExpressionEngine 2.0 contains 50+ new features and improvements, as well as brand new UI (you’ll hear more about this next week in our exclusive coverage on EE Insider), a File Manager and Image Editor. EllisLab has made a concerted effort on allowing more control when developing websites with ExpressionEngine. The control will be in templates, installation and the publishing process.
During the short video presentation by Derek Jones (which, surprisingly, featured a “cameo” appearance by yours truly) he announced the release date of December 1, 2009 and that it will have some very cool new features like a fieldtype API (they are building FieldFrame into ExpressionEngine!).
The conference attendees left the session energized, abuzz by the announcement of the release date for ExpressionEngine and ready for the conference sessions.
Posted on Oct 23, 2009 by Ryan Irelan
Prolific add-on developer Leevi Graham had a surprise for the audience at the end of his presentation at EECI 2009: free add-ons. Everyone in attendance gets a free copy of every one of Leevi’s commercial add-ons.
What does this include? PublishPlus, Better Meta and LG Polls.
Posted on Oct 22, 2009 by Ryan Irelan
At EECI 2009, EllisLab annoucned that ExpressionEngine 2.0 will be released on December 1, 2009.
Posted on Oct 21, 2009 by Ryan Irelan
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