Erik Reagan

Apparently my mom hacked Devot:ee this weekend.

I am a big fan of the ExpressionEngine community. I've enjoyed being a part of online communities since creating my first little community called Servants of God (later called TeenZion) to the good ole days of being a moderator at flashkit.com. Over the years I don't think I've experienced one quite like what EllisLab has built around their products. Devot:ee is a popular community-driven "fan site" for ExpressionEngine. I have some of my EE add-ons listed there as do many other developers. Devot:ee is actually a big contributor to my growth in add-on development. Without that site I wouldn't know about half of the add-ons I now have experience with. Anyways, on to the story about my mom.

I'm a mamma's boy. Always have been. My mom is awesome and anyone who's been blessed enough to meet her is well aware of this. I think she's gone a little too far this time though. She hacked devot-ee.com, or at least that's my theory.

This weekend Devot:ee announced this year's AcademEE Awards nominations. As far as I know this is something thought up by Ryan Masuga, Devot:ee's creator, and he hand selected last year's winners prior to the official Devot:ee launch. This year the site is in full swing and the members are voting in each of the four categories. I enjoy encouraging and supporting fellow developers so I quickly went to vote when I saw a tweet about it being open. I was quite befuddled when I found my name as a nominee under "Developer of the Year" amidst the other awesome developers listed there. Naturally you can see why I think my mom hacked Devot:ee. I'll have a chat with her this week and tell her that regardless of how much she loves me, it just isn't nice hacking other people's websites.

All Kidding Aside

It really was a nice treat to see my name on the list there. I've been working hard on some quite specific goals this year and this is certainly an affirmation of progress for one of those goals. Personally I have used some absolutely fantastic add-ons from the other names on that list and it took me some time to make my vote. While I don't exactly think my name should be there, I'm honored that it is. Thank you whoever made the selections. You made me all warm and fuzzy inside.

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