Your Weekly Devot:ee - June 3, 2011

If you use Snippets and prefer to develop your sites with templates as files and version control (Git, SVN, et al) you will want to give SnippetsSync a spin. It’s free, and Bjorn is a good guy.

• SnippetsSync (for EE2) by Bjorn Borresen
  SnippetsSync is a very basic extension that lets you save your global variables and snippets as files, keeping them in-sync during development and enabling you to use version control on the files.
• plusone (for EE2) by ThoseGeeks
  Easily use Google +1 buttons in your EE2 templates.
• Blis Download File (for EE2) by Blis Web Agency
  You want to link to a file (e.g. a PDF or a JPG) but the browser is loading it instead of actually downloading it into the users Downloads folder. Download File to the rescue!
• Show Edit Date ($, for EE1) by Laisvunas
  This extension adds Edit Date column to the edit entries page. The fields in this column display the date of the last edit of the entry.
• Matrix Tidy Cols (for EE1) by Pixel & Tonic (Brandon Kelly)
  EE1 extension that cleans up your Matrix field-column associations after duplicating a site with MSM.
• Link Icon Detector (for EE1 & EE2) by Brad Morse
  Detects the file extension of the URL provided and adds an icon automatically to the right of it.
• String Replace Exp (for EE2) by Christopher Reding
  String Replace Exp is a tag based approach to PHP’s str_replace for ExpressionEngine 2