Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 (updated 19 Dec ’09)

Adam Khan | Brighton, England

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More and more of OpinionJournal goes behind the paywall. Personally I think it’s the right move, because what’s there to lose? If we won’t pay, the business was over anyway. And my bet is we will.

Macworld Expo 2010 Best of Show.

On chatroulette.com.

Russell Beattie: What we really wanted was a MacPad not an iPad.

Sikuli, ingenious GUI scripting. Definitely going to try it.

This video of a tablet mockup makes me horny at last for a tablet computer. I’m excited for tomorrow’s Apple announcement. Guess I’ll be standing in line to buy one as well.

A Little Less Conversation, says Joel Spolsy.

Fake Steve Jobs pens the most insightful piece I’ve read on Google’s complaints vis-a-vis China.

Hypercritical by John Siracusa, or, The Tao of Editing.

A test of input device speed for a 221-word passage.

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here are a number of popular content management systems out there, but when people switch among them and ExpressionEngine is involved, more often than not the direction is towards EE. It’s a daunting task, converting a large site or system with hundreds or thousands of content items into another system, but it’s quite doable.

The processes involved are working out the new architecture, installing and configuring ExpressionEngine, coding new ExpressionEngine templates and testing the whole thing.

Taking us a good chunk of the way are some built-in importing utilities and an Importer add-on.

Articles

Single-template ExpressionEngine site for Websiteforall

For Websiteforall, Brighton, United Kingdom

The creative agency’s new portfolio site takes the visitor immediately to the heart of matters.

How Subtraction.com was converted to EE

As a standard-bearer of design excellence everything at Khoi Vinh’s web site has to be just so.

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Take Control's ebook updates now powered by ExpressionEngine

Okay, so you’ve discovered the benefits of Take Control Ebooks. Within your ebook you click the “updates” link. What then?

Chicago arthouse and film distributor Music Box deploys ExpressionEngine

The two web sites still appear as before — except where Music Box wanted design changes and additional features — but they’re now regularly updated with ease by Music Box staff.

Securosis migrates from WordPress to ExpressionEngine

We imported scores of tags, hundreds of posts and members, and thousands of comments.

TidBITS takes control with ExpressionEngine

Posting new books to the growing Take Control catalog had become an increasingly labyrinthine ordeal.

Websiteforall relaunches home site using ExpressionEngine

For Websiteforall, Brighton, United Kingdom

The award-winning creative web agency set out to standardize content management onto a single system, starting with its own site.

Helping Khoi Vinh migrate Subtraction.com to ExpressionEngine

The design of subtraction.com is so obvious and authoritative that it almost should be ubiquitous, and yet of course it’s unique.

Best Network Security switches from Joomla to ExpressionEngine

For Digital Scepter, Los Angeles, California

As a wise man once said, things should be as simple as they can be, but no simpler.

"Perfect" new CMS deployment for fabric fashion site

For Vector Media Group, New York, New York

Without a CMS, maintaining the relatively simple Carolyn Strauss Collection website had become cumbersome and time-consuming.