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The Top 6 Gotchas When Upgrading ExpressionEngine

Issues come up when upgrading Expressionengine.  Here are our top 6 Gotchas.

Hop Studios on a Short Holiday

With so many U.S. and Canadian clients, there are few days off that we truly can enjoy, but tomorrow, Good Friday, is one of them.

See you all on Monday!

One Way to Improve EE’s Performance

By changing the timestamp used by the Channel module, you can improve MySQL’s ability to cache database requests, and therefore to handle large-traffic sites.

Upgrading from ExpressionEngine 1.x to 2.x

I have upgraded six client sites from EE 1.7.1 to 2.3 or 2.4 in the few months, and in every case, we have had to rewrite code (EE or PHP), remove or change existing functionality, or have had to work with the folks at EllisLab to get the upgrades to complete. The good news is—we’re pretty good at this now!

Rose’s Heavenly Cakes, One of the First Kindle eBooks to Have Interactive Media

A few days ago, whilst reviewing a video that our favorite client, Rose Levy Beranbaum (realbakingwithrose.com) had put up on her YouTube channel, I found out that her book “Rose’s Heavenly Cakes” was the first Kindle ebook published with embedded media.