Sessions at EEUK about ExpressionEngine

Friday 26th August 2011

• 101 Ways to Skin a Cat : Design Patterns in EE

  by Joel Bradbury

  EE's core attraction is it's flexibility. It gives developers the power to alternately level mountains and shoot themselves in the face. To minimize the pain we pour our own design patterns into the cracks. From naming systems to data structure conventions. There's no hard and fast right or wrong way to build sites, but there are some definite pitfalls.

  We'll go through some of the design patterns in use today, their popularity, their specific strengths and weaknesses, which to avoid, and how you can twist them to fit your needs.

  • Design Patterns
  • ExpressionEngine

  At 10:15am to 11:00am, Friday 26th August

  Coverage write-up slide deck

• Faceted Navigation Techniques in ExpressionEngine

  by John Henry Donovan

  John Henry is a freelance, Irish based web developer who is fanatical about ExpressionEngine, so much so he divides his day between being a Technical Support Specialist for EllisLab and client work.

  • ExpressionEngine
  • Faceted Navigation

  At 11:00am to 11:45am, Friday 26th August

• Commercial Add–on Development for Clients

  by Stephen Lewis

  When not blogging erratically, or courting abuse for his add-on pricing, Stephen spends most of his time writing add-ons for private clients. In this talk, Stephen shares some of the hard-earned knowledge he has acquired over several years of whoring out his add–on development skills.

  Highlights include tips on the right way to start an add–on development project, hints for clearly defining the project scope, and strategies for tolerating Matthew Weinberg.

  • ExpressionEngine

  At 1:30pm to 2:15pm, Friday 26th August

• Parse Order Pro

  by Lodewijk Schutte

  Learn the intricacies of EE's templating system and its parse order. Simple vs. Advanced conditionals, Plugin vs. Module tags, Global Variables vs. Snippets, and more. Learn to circumvent problems with the help of cunning code and add–ons. A true Parse Order Pro will create lean, mean, optimised templates that scale.

  • ExpressionEngine
  • Templates

  At 2:15pm to 3:00pm, Friday 26th August

• Optimus PrimEEr: Setting up the Optimal EE Configuration

  by Carl W Crawley

  Carl is Managing Director of EE Technology Studio 'Made by Hippo', an EE Pro, addon developer and advocate of all things ExpressionEngine. As well as building ExpressionEngine sites of all sizes for clients all around the world, Hippo is UK Development Partners with BrilliantRetail, eCommerce for EE.

  • ExpressionEngine

  At 4:00pm to 4:45pm, Friday 26th August

  Coverage slide deck

• Going Mobile

  by Garrett Winder

  Garrett is a front end developer at Erskine Design. He'll be sharing tips, techniques and tactics for handing mobile or alternative versions of sites in EE.

  • ExpressionEngine
  • Mobile

  At 4:45pm to 5:30pm, Friday 26th August

  Coverage slide deck