SilverStripe

Interview with Dion Almaer of Google & Ajaxian

Posted by Sigurd on 14 October 2007

On Friday, I was invited to speak with Dion Almaer about the SilverStripe project, our decision around PHP5, and how we ensured success with our participation in the the Google Summer of Code program which provided us with ten fulltime programmers to work on our project. The fifteen minute interview is on youtube.

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SilverStripe releases blog module with drag'n'drop widget system

Posted by Sigurd on 17 September 2007

Productive times! Brian, Jeremy and Andrew have been working over the past weeks to produce a free blog module for download. This is in parallel with Andrew releasing SilverStripe v2.1 and Ingo working towards v2.2 with our Google Summer of Code students, so it certainly feels like Christmas around here!

• Download blog module (requires SilverStripe 2.1)
• Visit demo.silverstripe.com/blog

Tour of the blog module 

Blog comes out of the box working without any customisation necessary. You can easily and completely change the look and feel by making your own theme...

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9 Comments Tags: blog, akismet, ajaxian, module, silverstripe software

Surfing a big wave!

Posted by Sigurd on 18 February 2007

We threw an impromtu party on Thursday after SilverStripe was featured on Ajaxian, which led us to being popular on Del.icio.us and then smattered all over the place on various blogs, including in Italy and Germany, giving our server a real thrashing!

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