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EE Insider

If you are an ExpressionEngine Programmer, one website you must absolutely bookmark is EE Insider. The website, managed by the talented Ryan Irelan, focuses on the latest EE news and information coming out of the community.

On the site you'll find ExpressionEngine addon reviews, video tutorials, new addon announcements, highlighted ExpressionEngine websites and lots of how-to tips and advice.

Filed Under: Expression Engine

ExpressionEngine & Newspapers

If you're searching for the perfect CMS for a newspaper or magazine project, look no further... ExpressionEngine rocks large content sites and scales well as data and traffic grows. Below are four of my projects that are good examples of what EE can do:

- Zocalo is the largest traffic and content site I've worked on. It's for a daily Mexican newspaper.

- Gulf Coast Business Review is a weekly business newspaper.

- zRecs Network is a group of online blogs focused on kid related content.

- Inkling Magazine is an online magazine on science and women.

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Top 10 jQuery Snippets

On just about every project coming through my office now days there is some component of jQuery scripting involved. I personally love jQuery and each time I code some new interaction I learn a ton!

Here's a great page of the top jQuery snippets for bookmarking... The 10 most used jQuery Snippets.

Filed Under: Coding

Devote:ee

The Devote:ee website is my favorite ExpressionEngine hangout. The site centralizes ExpressionEngine modules/plugins/extensions/accessories in one location and gives developers and easy way to buy addons. Not all addons are represented on the site but it is by far the most comprehensive list anywhere on the web.

Filed Under: Bookmarks, Coding, Expression Engine, Tools

New Tools

I tend to take a ton of screen captures as a programmer and have tried a number of tools that have been okay but not great.

The latest software I'm trying is Jing which installs on PC and Mac. So far I'm liking it a lot. You can capture the screen or capture a video of what's happening on the screen. Once the capture renders, you have the option of adding text, arrows or highlights, then can share via screencast.com, save it or copy it to your clipboard.

Filed Under: Tools