Just pushed an update to the Taxonomy module and thought I’d write a post to outline some of the new features and also share a couple of development tips.
I keep surprising myself with how flexible it really is on some pretty complex builds I’m working on. It’s ‘play nice’ approach with the EE pages module is really making it something special.
Thought I’d better get my shit together and actually develop something in HTML5…
What better way to do that than obliterating my old blog design and starting from scratch again. My old design was developed I think in 2007 and was in dire need of a refresh - especially since I’ve been developing more and more add-ons for EE.
Expressionengine has been a revelation for me; purely and simply a life changing piece of software.
In 2006 EE bounced me from producing static html sites - where I outsourced *any* dynamic, complex, database-driven work - to empowering me to feel like I could build just about anything. Really, anything.
I’ve just knocked together a quick WYMeditor Fieldtype which I’m happy to share with anyone that’s interested.
Its built on Brandon Kelly’s excellent Fieldframe framework, so you’ll need to grab that, and enable jQuery in the cp via your favorite flavor.
Grab it after the jump:
For anyone who attended my presentation on Saturday at Barcamp Auckland, or anyone that’s interested, you can download my slides (1.4mb PDF).
The presentation went waaay faster than I expected, totally ran out of time to go through some code examples I had and related tips.
If you attended and have some questions, feel free to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). I’m more than happy to talk/share/catchup on anything ExpressionEngine.