Your Weekly Devot:ee - October 21, 2010

We’ve been in full-on optimization mode at devot:ee this month and hope you’re seeing the speed increases. One thing we learned is that simple conditionals are hard to come by in EE, and advanced conditionals can cripple your site in a hurry.

Two add-ons I’d like to point you to if you’re interested in speeding up your site are both by Mark Croxton (@croxton). One is Switchee which I use all over the place, and the new one this week is Ifelse. You would do well to read and understand the descriptions of what these two add-ons do. Both of these are available free for both EE1 and EE2, and Mark officially supports these through the devot:ee support forums. Thanks to Mark for his work!

Here are this week’s newest ExpressionEngine add-ons:

• Familee (for EE1) by Aaron Fowler
• Chimper (for EE2) by Benjamin David
• HS Localize Date (for EE2) by Kevin Smith (hearSAY)
• Member E-mail Registration (for EE2) by Wouter Vervloet (Baseworks)
• Delete Entries (for EE2) by w3care
• Reg Restrict (for EE2) by Michael Rog
• Active Record (for EE2) by Rob Sanchez (Barrett Newton)
• IfElse (for EE1&EE2) by Mark Croxton

ExpressionEngine Camp
Both of us devot:ee guys (The devot:eem, if you will *ahem*) will be at ExpressionEngine Camp in Denver, CO tomorrow, October 22. Jacob Russell (@jacobrussell) will speak about optimizing and speeding up your EE sites and will then be available for questions in the Experts Lounge. Your truly (@masuga) will speak about using Git for version control when working with EE, then will be available in the Experts Lounge for questions or general chit-chat. After that, I’ll sit in on the Business Panel at the end of the day with Mitchell Kimbrough of Solspace and Paul Burton of 16toads. Should be a fun time hanging out all day with an ExpressionEngine crowd.