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Ellislab Session at SXSW - Video
If you weren’t lucky enough to get to SXSW this year, don’t worry!
Andru Edwards from GearLive has posted a video of the Ellislab session. The session discusses the migration of ExpressionEngine to CodeIgniter. After the speaches and demonstration there’s a question and answer session which answered a couple of the points I’d been pondering about.
It’s great to see the Ellislab guys presenting their new product, and you can see by the way they talk about it, they’re really happy with ExpressionEngine 2.0. Hopefully I’ll be getting a copy of ExpressionEngine to try out as soon as 2.0 is released.
It’s all looking excellent really, I just need to work out if there’s an easy way to migrate wordpress sites over!
If you want to download the video in more formats/resolutions, go to Gear Live’s blog post for this video.
What’s your thoughts from the session?
This reminds me… I’m waiting for my CodeIgniter T-Shirt to arrive since SXSW! 
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I am personally wondering what will be about the “Form generation” library that we can see behind Derek Allard speech… I don’t know if this will be only an enhancement of the form helper of if they plan to finally make a real form library (making forms by hand just sucks…)
What’s your opinion about this?
Yeah, a form library seems to make sense to me too.
I think that this will go hand in hand with the new Validation library, which has really been needed for a long time.
With CI 2.0 (I think that’d be the version number… it makes sense), there could be a big upgrade in functionality that provides CI users with a load more features (like the JS Library) which EE is dependent on.
But, don’t expect Ellislab to push most of their EE 2.0 functions to the CI core. This could devalue the EE Product.
Actually, you can absolutely expect us to push the EE functions into the CI core. Basically, the only stuff that will be EE only is application logic, but libs, helpers, etc are all going CI.
And hey, with respect to your tshirt… that’s odd. It was mailed the same time as Micheal Wales, and he’s got his. Hrm…
Derek, that’s awesome!
I had a feeling you guys might keep some of your hard work in your paid product (helpers, libs etc). But it’s great that you’re wanting to hand so much of it to the community!
Elliot
I seem to remember a promise of some cross-site request forgery protection in the next version of CI. Definitely sounds like it’s home will be a Form library.
I just want to see a new Validation library - I think that the form helper does the job and a form library would just be bloaty.
Hey, prove me wrong though!