Wow, what a year. 12 months ago Better Workflow was little more than an idea, now it’s Extension of the year; we feel honoured and humbled.It has certainly been an ‘interesting’ journey with many challenges, some of which almost broke us (Matrix support, anyone?).It was a struggle on another level as well. As a business... more
After a lot of blood sweat and tears, the release version of Better Workflow is out!Better Workflow is an ExpressionEngine add-on from Electric Putty that adds inline preview, entry drafts and approval processes to the EE control panel. With Better Workflow, you will be able to work on a 'draft copy' of a live entry, preview your changes... more
The launch of V1.0 of Better Workflow means we can finally draw a line under what has been just short of a year's development. That's not to say we're going to stop moving forward, far from it, we've got big plans. But it does give us the opportunity to pause and reflect. It was at EECI in Leiden way back in October 2010 that the idea was... more
So finally, it's the moment you've all been waiting for! Well.. some of you... ok well at least one of you. Anyway! In a pretty short blog post, we are pleased to announce that Better Workflow will be hitting the digital shelves in version 1.0 on the 6th of October, 2011. It will be available through devot-ee at a special introductory... more
We're going to announce a release date along with price information for Better Workflow at the end of this week, but before we did so we thought we'd give you all a little update on where we are. Beta testing an add-on is a fascinating way to learn how other people use EE. We'd made certain assumptions which were challenged and in the... more
Update: Beta request form is now closed! Lucky (ha!) applicants will be sent beta invites sometime on Monday. Happy flowing!So, we've been slaving away on Better Workflow for quite some time now, and we're thinking, "hey you out there, you with the face, want to test it?" So do you?We're looking for people who can really put our add-on... more
Thanks to everyone who entered our EEUK 2011 prize draw. The winner of the free ticket is Joris Heyndrickx from Moonbeetle web design in Belgium.We're looking forward to seeing him, and everyone else who is attending, in Manchester at the end of August.Best wishes,The Electric Putty Team... more
Sorry, our ticket giveaway has ended. We'll be drawing the winner very shorty.... more
It's full steam ahead at Putty Towers to finish all the features we want to pack in to our first release of Better Workflow, and our target this week has been Playa. We sized it up from several different angles and had a good root around under the bonnet (that's hood to our American friends). There's some super fly code in there but... more
In light of us releasing our first batch of private beta invites, we thought we'd show you a bit more of what Better Workflow can do. Feast your eyes on the approval process feature!Where we areWe spent some time last week refactoring and tidying up the code for the beta release, and we're pretty happy with it (touch wood!) as far as... more
We’re not dead! Just. After a mountainload of client work destroyed any chance we had of working on Better Workflow for a good month orso, we’ve finally had a chance to catch our breath and make some progress. Yes, you read that right, progress.Inside the matrixAs you may have read on our previous post “Fun with third... more
OK, so looking back we were perhaps a little optimistic. Once we had a proof of concept we got carried away and thought we'd have this thing licked in a couple of weeks. Then we started on third-party field type support and things started to look a little different. I say third-party field types but in fact, as is so often the case in... more
When building our new e-mail marketing tool, Electric Pigeon, I wanted to test myself by seeing if I could make a visually pleasing design built using the smallest number of images. Using a combination of the CSS3 box-shadow, text-shadow, background gradients, rgba colours and border-radius properties, along with an embedded font from... more
20 Responses, some tweets and emails later, we're back with our findings...We've had some great feedback (and responses) from the community regarding the commercial add-on scene and while we didn't get a thousands of responses to our survey, we did get enough to raise, at the very least, some interesting discussion points.Money money... more
So, we're developing BetterWorkflow (as we may have mentioned 500 times already), and when looking at the challenges in front of us, re: third party add-on integration, we are facing the question "is there really enough justification to spend a gillion pounds on development hours for something that may only sell 10 copies?" Update: See... more
We demo'ed Better Workflow at the London EE Meetup last night. Thankfully we had no technological breakdowns and, aside from one (small) glitch, our Add-on behaved perfectly. The post demo discussion was very interesting and we've come away with lots of ideas as to how we could improve Better Workflow.One issue discussed was around... more
Before we started using Expressionengine here at Electric Putty we build most of our websites using a proprietary CMS, in fact our CMS pre-dates our company. The imaginatively named epCMS began life way back in 2002, a time when the content management landscape was very different to today; third party CMS solutions were thin on the ground... more
The post is going to grow over time, but in a nutshell Electric Labs is a place for us to share and discuss the technical side of the work we're doing here at Electric Putty.... more