User 3.0 launches today along with Solspace Facebook Connect 1.0 beta. Use them both on EE 1.6.8 or EE 2.x. Your choice.
(continue reading)Tags: user, release, tag, super search, facebook connect, facebook, ee 2.0, freeform, bridge
A few weeks ago, we did a silent release of a new version of Brent Wilson’s Repeet plugin with improved performance and a few bug fixes. Today we are officially announcing it with the release of Repeet 2.0.1. We’re also announcing the first module from our new developer Greg Ferrell called Template Inspector.
(continue reading)Tags: performance, release, tools, templates, calendar, events, repeet, template inspector
Thank you to all of those who participated in the Haiti Campaign. We raised $1,131.69!
(continue reading)From now until Wednesday, we’re discounting everything in the store by 20% and giving 20% of your purchase to the Red Cross for Haiti relief.
(continue reading)User 3.0 is on the way. You can use it on ExpressionEngine 1.x or ExpressionEngine 2.x.
(continue reading)No longer will you spend another day alone. No longer will you stay up late sitting at your computer in your PJ’s. Those days are over. Today, I’m very pleased to announce the launch of the Friends module! Yes, you read correctly. The one we’ve been sitting on for quite some time…
(continue reading)Tags: software, release, beta, friends, social networking, groups, private messaging, statuses, facebook
We here at Solspace want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas. We look forward to a new year with you all.
(continue reading)Tags: user, friends, sale, facebook connect, repeet, facebook, christmas
As ExpressionEngine modules continue to grow in complexity and functionality, we are seeing more and more third party developers writing Add-Ons that extend Solspace’s own code or provide entirely new abilities using the data created by Solspace Add-Ons. Naturally, we want to encourage such behavior and want to assist in opening up our software to allow others to expand it as their needs require. If there is an extension hook you need in one of our Add-Ons or guidance on how to use our Add-On’s data or code in your work, feel free to post in our forums or email me directly. During the process of converting our major Add-Ons to work with the ExpressionEngine 2.x branch, we are in a perfect situation to make new code additions to help you and have them tested prior to final release.
(continue reading)Tags: software, development, addons, design, third party
Well, friends, like many of you, we’re cautiously excited about the upcoming release of ExpressionEngine 2.0 RC. Now that we have a clearer view of the road ahead, we want to let you know about our Add-On roadmap.
(continue reading)Tags: user, software, release, clients, expressionengine, expansion, expressionengine preview
Excited to release Super Search into the wild. Use it to enable faster more functional content searching or generate more flexible, better performing versions of weblog:entries loops.
(continue reading)Tags: performance, caching, release, searching, super search, google
Last week, I attended and presented at EECI2009, the first ever European ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter Conference, held in Leiden, The Netherlands. Quite frankly, it was a blast. Numerous people in the ExpressionEngine community who I have known for years online were finally met in the flesh, and I reconnected with people who I have not seen since my last SXSW trip way back in March 2008.
Besides all of the socializing and networking, there were excellent talks and workshops provided by top members of the ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter communities. You can see a full list of the presentations here and see for yourself. Combine this with the EE Roadshow held at the beginning of October, and I have attended two great conferences about ExpressionEngine in less than a month. Working for Solspace is spoiling me!
(continue reading)Tags: development, eeroadshow, conference, eeci2009
The Solspace Team is seeking new talent to join its ranks!
Our team works from home offices around the globe and enjoys a lack of wardrobe requirements. However, you must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills over email, Basecamp, IM and phone. Solspace developers typically work independently but must also be able to collaborate on projects, working closely with our team and clients in a warm, professional manner. We want people who are thirsty to learn and improve. You will be working with a team of expert ExpressionEngine developers that love to share knowledge and experience.
(continue reading)Tags: hiring, developer, employment
Starting at the beginning of 2010, all of Solspace’s codebase will begin the transition from supporting PHP 4 to requiring PHP 5. We will begin requiring MySQL 4.1+ as well. This change will not happen overnight, but all new code will be written with this goal in mind.
(continue reading)Tags: development, php, ie6, mysql, addons
Thanks to Mitchell turning 37 today, we’re giving you a 37% discount on ALL software in our store! The sale is in effect today and tomorrow (ends October 1st, 2009 at 11:59 pm PST).
(continue reading)So many of us have been pushing ExpressionEngine to its limits around performance and scalability. As the demands of our clients and their audiences increase we need the help of extra tools to augment what we can do with EE. Template Morsels is the next installment in our package of performance Add-Ons for EE. It combines ideas of caching content with ideas of embedding content into templates.
(continue reading)Tags: performance, caching, static page caching, template morsels
The tickets have been bought. The hotels are booked. The confirmations received. So, we can say with 98.7% accuracy that Paul Burdick (me!) will be attending both the EE Roadshow on October 2nd in Seattle, Washington and the EECI2009 conference in Leiden, Netherlands from October 21st to October 23rd.
(continue reading)Tags: software, paul burdick, add-on, workshop, conferences
We have more exciting news from the Solspace factory! We’ve just released a new extension called Comment Uploads. Like most of the names of our add-ons, it does pretty much what you think it does. 
Tags: uploading, photos, comments, release, comment uploads
With the announcement last week of the release of Hermes Expansion and my joining Solspace, you simply knew that we were going to follow up with a plethora of new software releases in the coming months, didn’t you? Welcome to the first.
(continue reading)Tags: software, release, static page caching, hermes, solspace ui, preparse
This has been a productive and mind-altering Summer for Solspace. We’ve restructured the company, changed roles and responsibilities, refocussed our initiatives and most importantly added a very important member to the family.
(continue reading)Tags: software, fiery tea, paul burdick, ft-e, expansion, hermes
Well, as you might have guessed from the title, we’ve implemented the User module into the Solspace site. It’s somewhat embarrassing to make this announcement right now, as we developed the freakin’ thing over two years ago! 
Tags: members, user, enhancement, easy
In case you guys haven’t already noticed, we’ve enhanced our Documentation area a bit this past week. The overall layout is roughly the same, but the biggest changes you’ll notice is the structure, the highlighted code, and the front page of the Documentation is much easier-to-use with the new “Table of Contents” style.
(continue reading)Tags: enhancement, easy, documentation
Working furiously on The Friends module. I was convinced that the module would never be useful since it was so complex to set up on a site. But we found some ways around that.
(continue reading)Solspace is proud to have helped pioneer the use of ExpressionEngine on highly trafficked enterprise-level websites. We’ve sometimes partnered with in-house technical teams on development, deployment and maintainence. From this experience we’ve learned a lot about the special performance challenges these kinds of sites face and how to not only optimize ExpressionEngine for performance, but also communicate with technical teams with less EE experience for ongoing development and maintenance.
(continue reading)Tags: performance, paul burdick, expressionengine, optimizing
We’re geeky. Getting geekier. We’re standardizing our software on the Fiery Tea Expansion for ExpressionEngine 1.x.
(continue reading)Tags: performance, fiery tea, fiery tea expansion, fun
We’re getting closer to developing a module that makes your cup of coffee in the morning and washes the dishes. But for now, here’s Diggie. After some extensive planning and excruciating development and testing (okay, it wasn’t that bad), we’re proud to release Diggie 1.0 Beta. What is it? Well, the name somewhat gives it away. In case it doesn’t, basically Diggie allows your users to vote on your weblog entries.
(continue reading)We launched a super big and important website yesterday. We wanted to make a change to the database architecture. Of course we didn't want to take the site offline. What did we do? We used Static Page Caching to cache all of the site pages. Took the site off line. Did our DB work. Then later, brought the site back online and deleted the cached... (continue reading)
Tags: performance, caching, triage, software, release, static page caching
First the first time, Solspace is now selling some of our premium add-ons in a discounted bundle! Included in the bundle is User, Tag, Related Entries, Video, and Selected. Priced at $179.95, this bundle offers a savings of 25% off! (Regular price for all: $237.75) (continue reading)
Tags: related entries, user, software, video, selected, savings, bundle, tag
Well, it's been a very long wait. But finally, you can now purchase and download the new Video module! Why the heck am I singing the Oompa Loompa song? Well, primarily 'cause it's catchy. Also because it ties in with the screenshots... (continue reading)
Tags: software, release, youtube, video, oompa loompa
Over the past few months, we've become a lot more efficient. Actually, maybe a little too efficient. Our add-ons are kept up-to-date more than ever, and it's becoming frustrating to our customers. My first thoughts were to just start ignoring some of the bugs and sweeping new feature requests under the carpet. However, after some heavy brainstorming with the rest of the team and consulting with expensive innovative solution firms for months, we've finally come up with a solution to this mess... (continue reading)
Tags: update, software, release, software update
I'm really excited about the possibilities for the Importer module. We're using it right now to build a large site that is a combination social network / shopping site. Importer harvests product information from various affiliate marketing providers. It then integrates the data into weblogs and presents it as EE content. Once we have the rules in place, we'll point a cron job to it and let the site run itself with only editorial intervention... (continue reading)
Tags: excel, software, xml, syncronize, importer, data, beta
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, there wasn't a better time to release this update! If you already own a copy of the Entry Update Notification extension, now is the time to add a little "romance" to your site... (continue reading)
Tags: software, release, valentines day, romance, entry notifications, entry update
Well, this is another one that we've been kicking the tires on for a while... Wait no longer! Related Entries 1.1 is finally available! On that note, I'd like to thank everyone for their patience with us... (continue reading)
Tags: related entries, software, release, jquery, user-friendly, enhancement
Well, it was finally time to we got around to this... we're happy to release User Authors 1.1. While this is not quite a major release, it's important as we have added some functionality to make it a little more usable, and we've spruced up the Docs for clarity... (continue reading)
Tags: authors, user, software, release, user authors, flexible
Better to talk with your client every day and miss your deadlines than to meet your deadlines and never pick up the phone. Many times over the years I have learned the lesson above. The power of the check-in call is undeniable from my point of view. Several times, during busy seasons, we have met deadlines and under-spent on budgets, yet still frustrated our... (continue reading)
Tags: introvert, budgets, clients, client, deadlines, communication, solitary
It's my absolute pleasure to anounce the long awaited release of our premier module, User 2.0. A long, long time ago, the module was created with the purpose of making working with the EE member templates easy. The module has since grown to include more and more features to help make the member management system more powerful. To be completely honest, the module lost a little attention over the... (continue reading)
Tags: members, user, software, release, life fulfilling, freedom, awards
Happy Holidays to all! This first and inaugural blog post is my opportunity to thank you all for being so supportive of Solspace through the years. We took our first client in 2000 and since then have grown to have a large and respectable client base made up completely of great and loving human beings around the world. We brought on our first contractor in March of 2005 and are now a team of more than 12 highly skilled, professional and fun loving people (continue reading)
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