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A little developer treat for you, courtesy of Leevi Graham at Newism: LG FirePHP. It allows you to use the FirePHP debugging framework while developing your EE site.
FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call. All data is sent via response headers
and will not interfere with the content on your page. FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON
and XML responses are required.
The extension is currently freely available at its repository on GitHub.
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Let’s celebrate the upcoming EE 2.0 beta, shall we?
For the next week (until 7/7/09), I’m offering free shipping within the USA for EE Code T-shirts. Now you can get a comfortable t-shirt for under $20. Ka-kow.
I haven’t forgotten about people outside of the USA. For the same limited time, international buyers get 50% off shipping ($4 instead of $8).
In case you haven’t heard about the t-shirts before, here’s a short description:
A playful, syntactically-correct t-shirt printed with white ink on a royal blue American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve t-shirt. These shirts will last longer, fit and feel better than most any shirt you’ve worn.
EE Code t-shirts are available in the EE Insider Shop.
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In the weekly EE 2.0 update, EllisLab CTO Derek Jones let out the news that they’re now focused on moving away from the private developer preview to a multi-stage EE 2.0 beta.
Basically, there will be 2 phases, with the first one being more restricted than the second.
The second phase will be a semi-open beta. Participants will be determined via an application process. We’ll post the details on what we’re looking for here on the EE Blog. We hope to keep the time between phases short, but please understand that the intention is to have a high-quality beta process, which may require extending the time between phases. We will keep the community informed here on the Blog, as always. And don’t worry, the criteria will not be as tightly focused as the developer preview. We will be pulling from all segments of our community.
Read the entire update for information about the EE 2.0 beta process.
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Do you need an easy way to display the correct file type icon next to a file download? A new extension from Republic Factory might come in handy.
The File Extension Icon extension “returns an icon or the file type as text for a specific file, based on the file’s extension.” Pretty straight-forward and a nice alternative to using PHP in your templates.
It’s free and available now.
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Yesterday, Erskine Design released the Related Entries Module, a “re-loaded module version” of the Better Related Entries extension (Google cache version, as the URL redirects to the new Erskine article).
Erskine developer Glen Swinfield explains:
The module works by extending the EE weblog class, it runs a query to get related entries and inserts a pipe-separated list of the IDs of those entries into the tag parameters. It’s as if you had added the IDs yourself in the tag only it’s dynamically getting them for you.
Because the Ed_related class extends the EE Weblog class the ‘entries’ method is available and unaffected so all of the usual parameters can be used.
That part about using the usual parameters? Sweetness.
Read the entire article for a usage example, a minor warning and the download link.
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Jason Morehead (winner of a free EE Code T-shirt), offered up a helpful EE Insider Tip for doing date comparisons, which includes comparing two date variables.
Very handy, indeed. Be sure to read the entire tip and if it’s helpful, mark it so!
Do you have some EE tips to share with the community? Check out EE Insider Tips, a community-powered mini how-to database. Create tips, edit tips, save tips and search tips. It’s a great resource for those little nuggets of EE information that may make the difference in your next project.
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Web developer extraordinaire and EE Insider guest author, Kenny Meyers, recently launched his personal website Happy Magic Fun Time. In lieu of standard comments, he’s using hash tagged Twitter replies displayed with the appropriate blog entry.
Kenny is cleverly using the Twitter Search plugin from Lumis but acknowledges some immediate issues:
I’ve already seen problems arise with merely two articles to my humble name. The first and most significant problem is that I can’t remove the “RT”: This is twitter speak for Re-tweet, which despite the many who think it’s spam, is appreciated.
Another issue I’ve noticed is that links to the article-in-question show up. Though, like a young Charlie Kaufman I enjoy the meta commentary as much as anyone, it serves the audience and the other commenters little purpose. Grand as it is and as much as it feeds my ego (a vacuous space with a constant sucking noise), it is a bit difficult to maintain flow.
Read Kenny’s full how-to, Twitter Comment System, over at Happy Magic Fun Time.
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So now that we have Building a blog with CodeIgniter, in order to make it lifestreamy, to make it tumble we need to add our delicious and twitter links to it. To do this, we’re going to employ an area outside of the MVC structure called “Libraries.”
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It’s Wednesday and it’s on.
Tonight at 9 PM EDT (US) a group of EE experts, beginners and novices will all gather in a chat room to ask, answer and discuss questions about building websites with ExpressionEngine.
Won’t you join us?
Learn all about the chat on the EE Help Chat page. See you tonight in the chatroom!
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The one-day conference in Seattle WA this October, EE Roadshow, opened up submissions for talks. If you have something you want to share with a group of EE users, write it up and apply.
We’ve got a venue (Seattle, WA) and a date (October 2, 2009). Now we’re looking for volunteers to speak on panels, moderate sessions or give presentations. Help us make this year’s conference the best it can be.
So, what are you waiting for? Submit your idea now. Deadline is June 30th.
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