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What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

Today I looked at #expressionengine just coz some guys I know are using it and need help tweaking.I didn’trealize how easy it is to tweak

— John Kamuchau (@johnkevin) May 14, 2012

I believe the proper term is tweakalicious.

Isn’t that why you use ExpressionEngine? Because of its extensibility and relative ease of use when developing add-ons?

What They’re Saying About EE

From EllisLab CEO Leslie Camacho:

Ethics: “I won’t push my software on you, cos what I really want: for you to succeed. If ExpressionEngine not right I’ll say so.”—@knight777

— Josh Clark (@globalmoxie) April 24, 2012

And that makes for a better community, too.

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

Refreshingly fast responses from @Solspace.So far, seems to me the #eecms community blows the #drupal community out of the water.

— Michael Langford (@kvetchus) March 28, 2012

Kaboom.

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

I’ve never met anyone who is actually working with #ExpressionEngine

— Sascha Bregenhorn (@netzrocker) March 28, 2012

Probably why no one has done a news site for the community either.

Update: In the comments, Adam points out the this was probably meany literally, not as a snark. We regret the jump to conclusions.

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

I think member profile trigger word choice should be an install option. #eecms

— Michael Boyink (@boyink) March 19, 2012

I think the public member profiles should just be eliminated completely. Who uses them?

(Here’s a good tip for setting the trigger word)

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

I’ve been impressed with ExpressionEngine 2.4, it seems to be pretty solid.Anyone hitting big issues with it? #eecms

— TomJaeger (@TomJaeger) February 10, 2012

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

Pro Tip: When submitting test data, use it to memorize other things. Cranial nerves, knot names, foreign languages. #eecms #multitask

— Paul Burdick (@reedmaniac) December 27, 2011

Excellent advice!

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

OK, no more #eecms tweets, I losing friends.

Asher Awelan via Twitter

Keep tweeting away using the hashtag. We don’t mind.

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

A lot of agencies still think that #eecms is poor for SEO, e-commerce, rich media etc. Time do something about that!

Hambo via Twitter

Take every opportunity to educate them.

Any #eecms 1.x to 2.x upgrade that doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. #fairytalesitellmyself

Mr. Wilson via Twitter

Client’s in-house dev: “I bought a personal license of EE over the weekend and have become mildly obsessed. I envy your expertise.” #eecms

Jeff Claeson via Twitter

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

Another win for #eecms over Wordpress. I especially love helping out a fellow dev make the transition. Pro bono evangelism is the best!

Christopher Kennedy via Twitter

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

Why the hell is the Emoticon Module still installed by default!

Justin Long via Twitter

I heard that Kelsey Martens pays good money to EllisLab for that module to remain installed by default. Just a rumor though.

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

eecms allows one to delete the date tab when customizing the publish layout and then tells us it’s required when saving changes. Backwards!

Pixogee via Twitter

I ran into this just this weekend running EE 2.2.2 and it certainly was frustrating. It only took me a minute to figure out what was going on. To fix the problem I had to drag the entry date field back into one of the tabs.

I was certain that someone had already filed this bug but I wasn’t able to find a report. So I filed a bug.

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

If we had built a content management system, this would have been it!

Deckchair via their blog

(They say many more nice things about EE in the blog post.)

What They’re Saying About EE

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

Dear @ellislab, the three pages of “New” bug reports is becoming worrisome. #eecms #development

Paul Burdick via Twitter

Paul’s tweet set off a small discussion on Twitter about the bug list, some talk of “perspective” and even a comparison of EE to a situation Drupal.

I looked through the list and there are definitely some bugs that haven’t been assigned that were filed back in August. It’s hard to say what this means, if anything, because I don’t have insight into how the development team at EllisLab handles bug reports and assignments.

There are definitely some bugs from EE 2.2.1 that weren’t fixed in EE 2.2.2. But let’s not forget that EE 2.2.2 was a maintenance update to fix an issue with how new member accounts are created. It only includes a small set of bugs compared to the previous EE 2.2.1. All that to say, I’m hopeful that the next release will contain an entire batch of fixes to address some of the minor yet annoying issues from EE 2.2.1 and previous.

What’s your take? Do you feel like you’re bug reports aren’t being addressed or that you’re fighting the same bugs in every release? Or are things running smoothly? My experience has been that EE 2.2.2 is a very nice release and has been running great for me at mijingo.com (Publish Layouts notwithstanding).

What They’re Saying About EE

A Triple Edition Special

This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.

ExpressionEngine should be easier to update…at least to the latest build.

hungrysquirrel via Twitter

Not only that but EE should fix my morning Americano, too!

Okay, seriously, I do agree. Automatic build updates would be spectacular. For now, however, I’ll take a delta updates.

It’s getting harder and harder for me to hold my tongue over some of the “whine” that gets posted to #eecms. I’m holding it though! #winning

Anna Brown via Twitter.

Last week I had an internal debate about what’s better: the whining or the spam in the #eecms tag stream. The answer is: neither. The worst is the use of the #eecms tag to tear down and rant against other people’s work. That, I think, is the biggest threat. No one wants to play in a sandbox full of cat turds.

Okay, now let’s swing it back around to something positive.

Just gave a 1 1/2 hour ExpressionEngine content admin training session to a client. “This is incredible… way beyond what we were expecting.”

Ryan James via Twitter

If you build a site with care using ExpressionEngine, this is the reaction you’ll get. My mantra is: Easy for the client, not for me. Nice work, Ryan!