Encaffeinated’s Chad Crowell to Speak at EngineSummit: The Online ExpressionEngine Summit
Encaffeinated’s Managing Director Chad Crowell is slated to speak at the upcoming EngineSummit on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010.
This Summit covers the ins and outs of Expression Engine, one of the fastest-growing content management systems on the web. Spend time with professionals who create, customize, and deploy Expression Engine-powered sites every day. Along with noted EE community members Ryan Irelan, Mark Huot, Leslie Flinger and John Henry Donovan, Chad will be presenting an hour long session on Advanced Calendaring with ExpressionEngine.
Topic times are yet to be announced, but you can buy your tickets at http://enginesummit.eventbrite.com.
Encaffeinated is giving away 2 free passes to the online summit. To enter the random drawing for one of the free passes, leave a comment below with a question you may have related to creating calendars and events in ExpressionEngine. If you don’t have any questions about calendaring, feel free to leave an alternative topic that you might like to see covered by Chad in future speaking engagements. Comments must have a question or topic to be included in the drawing.
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12 Comments
posted on March 11, 2010 at 7:34am by Josh:
I’m interested in what addons are needed/suggested versus EE native functionality to build advanced calendar systems.
posted on March 11, 2010 at 9:45am by Casey Reid:
This should be a great online summit and I’m looking forward to the information you’ll share. It would be useful to hear about how you’ve handled calendars with tons of events on a daily basis. How do you present those events to users in an easy to view way, without making things too cluttered? Especially in something like a full month calendar view.
posted on March 11, 2010 at 4:43pm by Kelly:
I have yet to implement a native EE calendering system, but will for an upcoming site. I have roughly the same questions as above, how to handle multiple events in a day and the best way to handle multiple channels and categories within a single calendar.
Also an overview of integrating external calendaring (google api and rss feeds) into EE.
posted on March 17, 2010 at 2:03pm by Lodewijk Schutte:
Sounds like a great EECI warm up! Oh, and by the way, Ryan’s last name is sans-d.
posted on March 17, 2010 at 2:09pm by Chad Crowell:
Oh, Low. You spoiled my fun!
Fine I’ll fix it.
posted on March 17, 2010 at 6:46pm by Jacob Russell:
I’d like to know what advantages building a calendar in EE with current tools (native and add-ons) confers as opposed to integrating a perhaps better developed external solution (third party app, framework, etc.) I haven’t actually dealt much with calendars in EE, since Ryan handles that section of devot:ee, so I’d be intrigued to hear what you have to say on the subject.
posted on March 19, 2010 at 1:17pm by Marty:
Does the native EE framework publish an RSS feed of calendar events that get submitted and approved or is that considered an advanced feature?
posted on March 19, 2010 at 2:29pm by Todd:
How do you handle recurring events and pull entries into the templates that only related to the future.
For example, let’s say you have an event that begins the first Saturday of every month and lasts one year. Instead of entering the data 12 times, we want to do so only once.
Then pull all future dates into a template to list any upcoming events. To further complicate this, we may have several events that also have a recurring schedule and may need to be slotted in between these Saturdays.
How does one achieve this in EE?
posted on March 21, 2010 at 9:31pm by Bruce Floyd:
Is there a way to use Expression Engine and integrate with Google Calendar?
posted on March 22, 2010 at 12:36am by bjorn:
I’d be interested in hearing how you handle recurring events, and also ical subscription if you have any thoughts on that.
posted on March 22, 2010 at 4:28am by Todd:
I’m actually testing the beta for a new calendar module for Solspace. I’ve only had it for a few days but so far I’ve been pretty impressed. It’s the next step after the Repeet plugin. They have a custom field architecture built into it that have some fairly snazzy jquery based calendars. The calendars have a lot of options built in allowing you to set up recurrence rules by selecting the appropriate days of the week or month from a calendar rather than typing it or creating a drop down as you do with the current Repeet. Much more intuitive and less prone to error.
I’d love a shot at a free pass to the online summit, so here’s a question: what’s the best way to handle a calendar of events where you often only want to show the events for a related weblog entry in the event weblog? For example for a particular meeting room rather than all the meeting rooms.
posted on March 22, 2010 at 9:40pm by Chad Crowell:
Thanks everyone for all your feedback! I’ll be sure to squeeze as many answers to these questions into the session as I can.
The winner for the free ticket to the EE Summit is Jacob Russell. Congratulations Jacob, and thanks to all who left a comment to enter the contest.
As a thank you, everyone can click this link to buy a ticket to the EE Summit with a 10% discount code. Hope to see you there!
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