SXSW INTERACTIVE 2008

Holy Freaking CRAP!!!

First the bad news: There is no release date yet for 2.0. However, all efforts in development have been focused on 2.0 so the release date from Rick Ellis is “sooner rather than later”. Perhaps within 2008.

Now for the good news:

• Admin interface redesign by DUO
• built on CodeIgnitor
• JQuery integration and support for development
• JS code popout box for weblog entries (no more code and cut and paste!)
• i could go one, but i seriously want to say other stuff…

First of all, the presentation was better than i thought it would be.  I’ve been to MS product presentations and they’ve sucked.  None of the fluff was here.  Ellislab has really nothing other to say than what it truly is doing with the EE product and all of it was refreshing and good.   It seems as though a great deal of time and energy was taken and put into the product development and it really shows from the limited view we were given.

At this point all development into EE 1.6+ has stopped and all focus is now being directed at the 2.0 launch. I can’t wait to see the final product!

off now to lunch and then a 37signal.com presentation.