December 2011
2 posts
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Spotify & The Ambient Century
In 2003, on my 24th birthday, one of my closest friends Brenden Tamilio gave me a wonderful book called The Ambient Century.
From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugurated by Stockhausen and Cage; From the Indian-influenced Minimalism of Philip Glass and Terry Riley to the ‘unlocking’ sound worlds of Brian Eno and Arvo...
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EE Reactor Team to the rescue!
I’m just going to put this out there. Does anyone else think that the EE Reactor team needs some kind of super-hero-esque logo? Something like the bat-signal perhaps?
Then, without committing to anything on the forums; any time they see something they are interested in addressing, they can just post up that image and we will all sleep a little better knowing that they are, protecting us...
November 2011
2 posts
CodeIgniter ActiveRecords Don't Support Joins in...
I love CodeIgniter’s ActiveRecords functionality. It makes programmatically building complex queries infinitely neater – and thus, more maintainable.
After years of using ActiveRecords, they have failed me for the first time.
ActiveRecords Ignores My Join
Here is what I was trying to do (in a simplified example):
What I’ve Got
I have two tables:
table_1
table_2
Table 1
id (int)
thing...
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100 Isn't Enough
Why does the Twitter API limit the retweet_count to 100?
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why this is so difficult. It seems like such an obvious and vital piece of information. So why, for the love of Pete, does the Twitter API return “100+” once the retweet count has reached 100? This is perhaps the most important time to continue returning accurate information.
Reporting Isn’t...
October 2011
10 posts
5 tags
ExpressionEngine 2 Bootstrap
Need a cron job in your ExpressionEngine 2 environment? Want to take advantage all that lovely CodeIgniter goodness? Not quite sure how to get access to the EE super object to make it happen?
As per usual, Rob Sanchez (@_rsan) has a solution for us.
Check out his ExpressionEngine Bootstrap and you’ll be good to go.
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...But Instead I'm Writing About Dildos
I should be:
explaining the importance of understanding parse order in your templates – thanks to Low (@low)
listing 10 ways to make ExpressionEngine rock even harder than it already does – thanks to Matt Weinberg (@mrw)
assisting you in tuning your EE site to be as fast as possible – thanks to Jacob Russell (@jacobrussell)
giving you really cool insight into things the EE docs don’t tell you...
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Better Workflow - Thank You Electric Labs
One of the things that scared me to death about trying ExpressionEngine in the first place, was the lack of any real workflow tools. This was a gaping hole that I was somewhat shocked nobody was really freaking out about. Working with primarily larger corporate clients – I knew full well that this omission would eventually bite me in the ass. There is just too much process and approval that goes...
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EECI 2011 - Let Me Buy You a Beer
The only thing I am really looking to get out of this year’s EECI is to put faces to as many of the Twitter/EE Forum/GetSatisfaction avatars as possible. And then, to buy a beer for as many of those new faces as possible.
I’m not planning anything, scheduling anything or expecting anything. My rough agenda looks something like this:
Agenda
Hop the Acela from Boston to New York with Kyle...
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NavEE 2.2 - Ready for Testing
NavEE 2.2 is just about ready for testing and we’ve got a bunch of improvements, all of which (as per usual) came from awesome NavEE users out there. We really do appreciate and keep track of all the ideas that come in, so please keep ‘em coming.
NavEE 2.2 Features
Limit which navs each Member Group can access
As suggested by Phillip & Bryan in this Support Request
Limit which...
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Mou - Markdown editor for web developers →
Checking out Mou App after seeing this Tweet from Rob Sanchez. Pretty cool tool that seems to do exactly what I want it to do, and nothing more.
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Hello Trello.
Sticky Notes Galore
We’re a pretty small team over here at Booyant. We are all developers. As a result, we are also all project managers, account reps, sales staff, training experts, janitors, etc. As our workload has become more and more unwieldy – we decided we needed a process to put in place to ensure that nothing falls between the cracks and that everyone is putting their efforts in the...
August 2011
1 post
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Why so angry?
It’s been about a year and a half since we released NavEE, our ExpressionEngine navigation addon. Continually developing and supporting all of our addons is one of the most satisfying things I do on a day-to-day basis.
We’ve used Get Satisfaction as our support tool of choice since we launched NavEE - and of our 220 support requests thus far, all of them have been:
Polite
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