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EECI2011: ExpressionEngine sets its sights on being “The UX/CX CMS.”
by Tai Palmgren
Developers and designers from as far away as South Africa and Australia recently journeyed to Brooklyn for The 2011 ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter Conference. Tai and James were among them. Here’s what they learned.
Mightybytes has built a number of our favorite sites in EE, including: The Chicago Diabetes Project, Court Theatre and most importantly, our own site, mightybytes.com. ExpressionEngine is a unique product; although it’s built on the CodeIgniter open-source framework and popular with an open-source-minded development community, the CMS itself remains a commercial product from EllisLab. Unlike many commercial CMS’s, ExpressionEngine is very in touch with its user base and values its community highly, and the EECI conference made this quite apparent.
Far from the high-powered Drupalcon Chicago in March, EECI took place at the Invisible Dog Art Gallery, former factory for the 80’s fad toy. (Allegedly, when the current owners took over the space, they found all of the raw materials for toy assembly still in the basement.)
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