SilverStripe

Open Source Awards 2011

Posted by Kirsten Moodie on 5 August 2011

Here we go again! Show your support by nominating SilverStripe CMS in PacktPub's annual Open Source Awards.

Your nomination will help us to secure our position as a finalist, which in turn allows us to secure money we can devote on furthering our open source project. Gaining a good position in the PacktPub awards also helps us to spread awareness of SilverStripe CMS, which fuels adoption and encourages growth in our developer community. All this adds up to making SilverStripe an even better CMS!

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SilverStripe users profile: Heyday

Posted by Joanna McLeod on 26 November 2010

We're always interested to see what others are building with the SilverStripe CMS, so we've decided to start doing a series of profiles on what other companies and developers are doing. First up is the digital agency Heyday. They're a company from our own neighbourhood, and we’re huge fans of their Down to the Wire project about the history of the internet in New Zealand. I spoke to their technical director Shane Garelja about what they were up to.

How long have you been using the SilverStripe CMS?

We've been using SilverStripe for at least two years now, and have built quite a variety of sites on it. Our first was a site that, unfortunately, never went live but it was big enough to see the power and flexibility that SilverStripe had to offer.

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SilverStripe Hackathon in Wellington, December 11

Posted by Joanna McLeod on 16 November 2010

We'd like to give members of the SilverStripe CMS community a chance to learn how to contribute back to the project. We've had meet-ups in the past, and will continue to hold them, as they’re very important to us, but right now, the time for talking is done. Let's get our hack on!

There's a big long list of things on the to-do list for the SilverStripe CMS , which are changes requested by the community for the community. We thought a good way to work our way through some of them would be to organise a hackfest in Wellington. We've booked the function room at The Southern Cross on Abel Smith Street from 12pm-4pm, there’ll be some money on the bar, there’s good food and drink available, and clever people will share clever ideas. Now we just need you to come along to make things go. Want to know more? Here’s some questions and answers from the event organiser Will Rossiter.

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SilverStripe mobile development has just become easier

Posted by Sean Harvey on 25 August 2010

Today we've launched a free extension to SilverStripe CMS that makes it easier to build websites for mobile devices.

Most websites now have a noticeable amount of visitors using mobile devices. We've been looking at how to make it easier to build websites that can be accessed through popular mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Google Android phones.

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SilverStripe 2.4 User Help Up & Running

Posted by Brian Boyko on 11 August 2010

You asked for it, you got it. SilverStripe has a new version of user help which is compatible with the current 2.4 version of the CMS.

It was a big job, but we had help from many of you! We put up a beta version of the user help document and asked for your feedback while we were writing it. So first off, we'd like to thank all the people who helped us make user help better: Fred Condo, Anita Graham, Nigel Vining, Stephen Metcalfe, Marcus Dalgren, and the users going by the names of Martijn, Mike, Sunnybex, Fil, and Stefdv.

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SEO and Content

Posted by Brian Boyko on 14 July 2010

The necessity of search engine optimisation (SEO) in making a website is apparent.  At the very least, there's a usability component to SEO - if your customers, or potential customers, can't find the content, it might as well not be there.

SilverStripe's built in search-engine-friendly features (like hierarchical URLs and the ability to write good, clean semantic HTML templates) are a major consideration into what we're building out.  Right now, one of our developers, Andreas Piening, is improving the Google Analytics module, so that one can more easily visualise Google Analytics data with SilverStripe.

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Reviewing SilverStripe.org

Posted by Brian Boyko on 18 June 2010

We want to find out what features you'd like to see implemented, (or what problems royally annoy you), on the SilverStripe.org site.

Recently, SilverStripe Ltd did a reconstruction of the SilverStripe.com site. Part of it was that we wanted something splashy to go with launching Dawn™, but we also wanted to migrate our own .com site to SilverStripe CMS 2.4. Since we were upgrading the backend, we figured we might as well work on improving the public facing portions too. Sorta like, "Gee, Doc, so long as I'm going to have to have surgery for my appendix anyway, can you work in a tummy tuck while I'm under?"

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Representing NZ at Full Code Press

Posted by Sam Minnée on 2 June 2010

Full Code Press is a web development and design competition run by the same group of people who run the Webstock conference, the biggest web conference in New Zealand.

I'm going to be one of 6 people representing New Zealand, against Australia, and the United States, as a member of the Code Blacks team in the competition. I'm honoured to be chosen to represent New Zealand.

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Calling for help in documentation

Posted by Ingo Schommer on 2 June 2010

The criticism we hear most often from the developer community is that, with the exception of our books, SilverStripe needs to improve its developer documentation. And it's a fair point.  

We made some decisions regarding our documentation a while back that we thought would work at the time - a best guess as to how to proceed. But these turned out to limit us in ways we simply didn't foresee.

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SilverStripe v2.3.0 release candidate 3 is now available

Posted by Sigurd on 2 February 2009

Over the past two months we've made an impressive number of improvements to the upcoming version of our software, SilverStripe v2.3.0.

Release Candidate 3 is now available. Please help test it and submit bugs. Based on the importance of bugs raised in coming weeks we will either relabel this as a stable version or produce a release candidate 4.

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