Expression Engine Roadshow starts in Vancouver

I sat down last week with the folks at Hop Studios and Venn Communications to talk about their upcoming Expression Engine Roadshow training event. First off, what is Expression Engine (or EE as it is fondly known), and why should you care? Briefly, EE is a content management system (CMS). OK, there are lots of those. Next up, it’s a “beyond blogging” publishing platform. I use the term beyond blogging as a general system for flexible platforms that manage dynamic content beyond posts or pages – flexible data structures that can be created and updated from within such a beyond blogging platform. I spoke at length about the 3 stages of CMS at Web Directions North 08 . This type of functionality is invaluable for prototyping – or even running – many types of web applications. Drupal (with its content construction kit ) is the only other widely used system that I know of which has this type of functionality. This is espe...