Your Weekly Devot:ee - April 21 2011

Somehow I missed writing a post last week, which has never happened before. Might have been due to the birth of my baby boy, and the subsequent lack of sleep. Looks like some new developers have gotten into the mix while I was on Diaper Duty. We love to see new developers throw their hats in the ring!

The big news this week is the release of Adman, a native ad banner manager for ExpressionEngine by the talented Carl Crawley (Made by Hippo). If your site already has ads, or you want to offer ads on your site, this might be a great alternative to the often confusing and seemingly overly complex ad solutions that are out there.

• Reevision (for EE2) by GDmac
  Simple fieldtype that increments every time an entry is saved. Useful as revision counter for iCal.
• Adman ($, for EE2) by Carl Crawley (Made by Hippo Ltd.)
  With AdMan, you can schedule your ads, set automated expiry dates, track impressions and clicks, obtain individual and collective CPC (cost-per-click) and CTR (click-thru-rate), define ad sort orders or random display as well as define ad groupings that can be integrated into your existing Google Analytics or website tracking software. Fully self-contained tracking and reporting system direct within your EE Control Panel
• Secure Ajax Forms (for EE2) by Visible
  This simple plugin allows users to utilize EE’s embedded security-enabled forms via an AJAX interface.
• Etsur Entigy (for EE2) by Etsur
  This plugin allows you to grab templates and template groups that are assigned to an entry via the structure module.
• Gooee (for EE2) by Brett DeWoody
  Gooee allows you to bind your entries together with a snippet of text. The text can be anything your heart desires; an image, some HTML, text, etc. This is useful if you want to display something BETWEEN your entries, but not after the last entry in the loop.
• Disposition (for EE2) by Brian Litzinger
  Disposition adds sorting capabilities to the edit list page by altering the entry_date for each entry in the list.
• htaccess Maker (for EE2) by IntoEEtive (Yuriy Salimovskiy)
  .htaccess maker can be used to create an .htaccess file out of a regular EE template. Use all the power of ExpressionEngine templates to create the rules that you want - and you no longer need to update files manually.
• Category ID to URL (for EE1) by Jim Doodle
  This plugin will return a category URL when given a category ID. Handy when you have a parent_id from a category but no category URL.
• VWM Polls (for EE2) by Victor Michnowicz
  VWM Polls is a free ExpressionEngine 2 module and fieldtype. It requires PHP 5.2 or higher.
• Zoo Triggers ($, for EE2) by ExpressionEngine Zoo
  No more fiddling around and wasting time trying to get categories and archives to play nice with your Structure setup. Zoo Triggers is the add-on that fills the gap between Structure and ‘categories and archives’. Within seconds you have ‘category and archive’ functionality on your base Structure install.
• AC Categories (for EE2) by Alpen Consulting
  This plug-in allows you to access category information in various ways like breadcrumbs, trees and lists, and independent of the channel module.
• Heelp! (for EE2) by Trevor Davis
  Provide channel specific help on the publish pages.
• Check Member Permissions (for EE2) by IntoEEtive (Yuriy Salimovskiy)
  The plugin lets you perform check in ExpressionEngine templates for the permissions a member has based on the group they belong to.