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Build-up to EEUK 2013

15 May 2013

In just two days I’ll be giving my presentation at the ExpressionEngine Conference in Manchester (EEUK). I’m feeling really excited about the line-up of speakers and about presenting and introducing my new baby to the EE community.

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End of Year Round-up

11 December 2012

2012 seems to have flown by rather quickly but it has been an action-packed year. We released three add-ons this year, two of which have been nominated for the devot-ee AcademEE Awards. We attended EECI Europe and I had the honour of speaking at EECI U.S. (read my write-up here).

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AcademEE Awards 2012

10 December 2012

As always at this time of year the devot-ee AcademEE Awards are now open for votes so I encourage you to take a quick look and vote for your favourite add-ons. This year both Responsive CP and Snaptcha (our most popular add-on) have been nominated, as well as PutYourLightsOn for developer of the year.

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Making Graphite Meaner

9 November 2012

When Joel Bradbury demoed his Graphite add-on during his presentation at EECI 2012 in Leiden earlier this year it looked really slick. Graphite is a handy extension that visualises the template debug log as a graph, however when I recently installed it on a site I was a bit disappointed to see a typical Google chart colour scheme in place.

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Some Pricing Changes

1 November 2012

We have made some adjustments to the pricing of some of our add-ons, namely Expresso, Snaptcha and FireMail. Here is the explanation why...

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EECI US 2012

22 October 2012

I was lucky enough to go to both EECI's this year, the European one in Leiden and the US one near Austin which happened last week. In fact I was invited to speak at the US one and felt very honoured to present to my fellow EE community members. I gave a talk on the developer's track and it was a full house, standing room only!!

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Visualise Devot-ee Sales

29 February 2012

If like me you sell your ExpressionEngine add-ons on devot-ee then you are definitely familiar with the sales reports page. It gives a quick overview and tabular report of the selected month's sales. But if you want to properly analyse your sales then you simply need to visualise them. I've written a small php script to do just that and frankly I've surprised myself with how insightful it is.

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Responsive CP finally released to the public

22 January 2012

Responsive CP is an ExpressionEngine theme that I started working on over a year ago but that I only released to the public as a free add-on last week. You may have already noticed it in the various screenshots of our add-ons. The theme has two main goals – to provide a more professional looking control panel and to work well on desktop as well as mobile devices with small to medium screen sizes.

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AcademEE Awards 2011

21 December 2011

The devot-ee AcademEE Awards 2011 results have just been announced and I'm very pleased to see that the Developer add-on has been awarded Accessory of the Year!! Here is the blurb:

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All Add-on Income Donated 13.12.11

13 December 2011

To celebrate the large success of Expresso and our other add-ons this year, all income from sales of all PutYourLightsOn add-ons today (13.12.11) will be donated to charity (supporting education programs in West Africa).

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Highlights of EECI 2011

31 October 2011

Wow what a week! EECI in Brooklyn was a huge success and the ExpressionEngine event of the year. Great speakers, great people, great organisation and an amazing venue! Here are some of my personal highlights...

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Coming to EECI 2011

15 September 2011

I will be attending EECI 2011 in New York from the 19th to the 21st of October and am excited to meet many of you other EE community members and add-on developers at the event!!

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Another year, another redesign

12 September 2011

Another year has past and since the summer a redesign of PutYourLightsOn has been in the works.
Today I am proud to finally make it live!

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