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.
Read full article »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).
Read full article »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.
Read full article »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.
Read full article »We have made some adjustments to the pricing of some of our add-ons, namely Expresso, Snaptcha and FireMail. Here is the explanation why...
Read full article »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!!
Read full article »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.
Read full article »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.
Read full article »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:
Read full article »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).
Read full article »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...
Read full article »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 has past and since the summer a redesign of PutYourLightsOn has been in the works.
Today I am proud to finally make it live!