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Should you open-source your product?

Posted by Sam Minnée on 16 May 2012

Sam Minnée, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SilverStripe, has shaped the SilverStripe Suite and is part of its success story as an internationally respected open source CMS. Previously, Sam has posted about SilverStripe 3 beta 2.

As well as being a great way of giving back to the community, open sourcing SilverStripe CMS has worked out well for our company. Does that mean all companies should open source their products? Probably not, but based on our experience, I’m going to suggest a few reasons why you might consider it.

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Usability Testing for SS3

Posted by Kerstin Schuman on 9 May 2012

One month ago, Senior Project Manager Julian Meadow (aka J), along with colleagues Paul Clarke and Ryan O'Hara, usability tested SilverStripe 3.0 beta 2 with a number of clients around Wellington, to better understand if the user interface is intuitive or if there are areas that could be improved. I sat down with J to hear more about the long and winding road that is usability testing.

Why did you decide on a usability test for SilverStripe 3.0?

After more staff within SilverStripe became involved with the development of SilverStripe 3.0 and started playing with the early beta releases, we realised there were a number of usability issues that needed to be addressed.

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Wellington's May Meetup: Mobile CMS and GSoC explained

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 4 May 2012

We've published two presentations from this week's Wellington SilverStripe developer community meetup.

Felipe Skroski explained the importance of SilverStripe CMS having a content management interface suited for use on smartphones, showing off wonderful interface designs that we hope shall inspire developers in our community to discuss and build.

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2012 Google Summer of Code Students and Projects announced

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 24 April 2012

Sigurd Magnusson is one of SilverStripe’s three co-founders. Sig is based in Wellington, New Zealand and works full-time at the SilverStripe headquarters. His efforts are focused on sales, marketing and fostering the open source community.

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SilverStripe 3 Beta 2

Posted by Sam Minnée on 20 April 2012

Sam Minnée, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SilverStripe, has shaped the SilverStripe Suite and is part of its success story as an internationally respected open source CMS. Previously, Sam has posted about Duck Programming.

SilverStripe is proud to announce the release of beta 2 of the SilverStripe Framework 3.0 and SilverStripe CMS 3.0.

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The Opportunity of Responsive Design

Posted by Paul Rogers on 18 April 2012

Paul Rogers works as a Senior Online Marketing Strategist for GPMD, a London-based web agency who are one of two UK SilverStripe partners. GPMD also organise and run the UK SilverStripe meetup event.

In February 2012, my colleagues Matt Bailey and Sveta Coward entered their theme designs (Sunrise & Tangerine) for the SilverStripe theme contest. Both themes were designed and built with responsive functionality, meaning they respond to different devices to provide a more user-friendly browsing experience.

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How Simple came to life

Posted by Sara Tušar on 11 April 2012

Sara Tušar Suhadolc is the winner of the SS3 default theme contest. Sara works as a web-designer/front-end developer at Slovenian digital agency Innovatif. We asked her to share the story of how her theme Simple came to life.

Over a year ago, we decided to ditch our own CMS and switch to SilverStripe. Since then, we’ve published numerous websites and learned a ton along the way. When we heard about the contest we saw it as a superb opportunity to finally give something back to the community. And so it begun..

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Duck Programming

Posted by Sam Minnée on 4 April 2012

Sam Minnée, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SilverStripe, has shaped the SilverStripe Suite and is part of its success story as an internationally respected open source CMS. Previously, Sam has posted about SilverStripe 3's new ORM.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

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SCSS, Compass and SilverStripe 3.0

Posted by Will Rossiter on 27 March 2012

Will is a senior developer at DNA Design, Wellington, New Zealand. He has been a contributor to SilverStripe since 2007, maintains several modules and is a well known face around the IRC and Forums as willr.

Over one year ago now, a group of us got together and started thinking about how we wanted to implement Felipe's awesome new UI for SS3.0, and how should SilverStripe go about turning the pretty pixels into reality. The design itself was a product of some fresh thinking from the UX front, so it felt right that we take the same care in designing the front-end architecture.                                                                                                   

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Upgrading to SilverStripe 3.0

Posted by Simon Welsh on 22 March 2012

Simon is a developer at PocketRent, a SaaS using SilverStripe. I'm currently working towards completing my Honours degree in Computer Science and Maths. I'm simon_w on both Twitter and the #silverstripe IRC channel.

Since beginning to use SilverStripe back when 2.2 was about to be released to the world, the most complex upgrade path was between 2.3 and 2.4, when, rather than simple replacing the Sapphire and CMS folders with the newer version (as well as updating any modules, of course), the jsparty folder had to be deleted.

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