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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!

What They’re Saying About EE

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

Should #eecms default to a dash rather than an underscore. Thoughts, @EllisLab? http://t.co/mmMiE73

Erik Reagan via Twitter

I always switch to dashes first thing, so I definitely think it should be the default. The above-linked video from Google only reinforces that.

What They’re Saying About EE

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

#eecms sucks at exporting entries. Luckily @wordpress is amazing at importing them. I’ll never use expressionengine again. Good riddance

Kyle Tress via Twitter

Would I like to see ExpressionEngine be able to export entries into formats that other systems can slurp in? Yes. But because of the flexibility of EE templates, you can export to almost anything if you’re willing to dig in and make it work. Even to that specialized WordPress XML format that WordPress exports and imports.

I don’t think EE sucks at exporting entries (but good on you for not saying software sucks anonymously) it just might take a little work. Flexibility comes at a cost but it’s usually worth it.

To the readers: What have your experiences been exporting from ExpressionEngine?

What They’re Saying About EE

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

Now that I know what I’m doing, I’m really digging ExpressionEngine.

Chris Reynolds via Twitter

I agree. Empowered and educated users have the most fun. And I just happen to know the best way to learn ExpressionEngine (shameless, I tell ya).

What They’re Saying About EE

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

Why can’t ExpressionEngine be easy to install as WordPress?

Ron Domingue via Twitter

Ron, I don’t think installing ExpressionEngine is all that difficult but I do agree that it could be made easier. In fact, I think the Drupal install experience is one EE could also learn from, if only for the sleeker UI and, as dumb as it sounds, the progress bar.

What They’re Saying About EE

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

Add-ons don’t exist in a vacuum. They exist because EE is constructed for them to exist. Without EE they are nothing.

Ryan Masuga via Twitter

What They’re Saying About EE

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

I’ve got 99 problems, and at least 73 of them are because of ExpressionEngine.

Pessimist via Twitter