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Improving our public developer documentation
A key part of making it easy to learn how to use SilverStripe, or any other software project for that matter, is having great documentation. The PHP language, for example, now enjoys widespread adoption and is easy to learn in large part due to free and comprehensive documentation.
We're excited to say we've spent considerable time recently reviewing our existing tutorials and documentation, and discussing how to improve them. We'll let you know more as our plans develop.
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Comment on our documentation
One of our favourite features of the online PHP language documentation are the user-contributed comments found at the bottom of any page.
They allow the public to suggest improvements, offer examples, and link to other resources in an obvious and clean manner.
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Help us to write the SilverStripe book
We're looking for a technical writer to work with our core developers to produce a SilverStripe book aimed at web developers.
The main reason we're calling out to the community is that the core developers don't individually have the time to tackle a book by themselves. We also expect that by working with someone familiar with book writing, they can bring a whole set of fresh ideas, professionalism, and efficiency to the table.
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Screencast Tutorials Contributed
One of the tasks offered to high school students earlier this year was to produce screencast tutorials on some of the major things you do with SilverStripe; such as:
Although these tutorials are little more than following our existing text instructions or following common sense, by being a movie, you can sit back and relax to appreciate how easy it is to perform these tasks with SilverStripe. Thanks to Gadulix, David Mestel and Simon Welsh for producing these tutorials.
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User Help Released
We've released userhelp.silverstripe.com, which contains over a hundred pages of user documentation--how to use a completed SilverStripe website: adding pages, uploading images, sending newsletters et al. This is available as browsable website and as a downloadable 8MB PDF. We've separated this from the developer documentation so the two can have language, tone and complexity tailored for each audience. Thanks to Jeremy and Karen for putting this together! We'd love to have feedback ...
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Holiday reading material
Andrew, one of our awesome new interns who joined us with the "Summer of Code"-programme, just finished some tutorials targeted at SilverStripe-beginners. They should give you an insight on creating a basic site and custom pages, and keep you busy learning SilverStripe over the holidays.
We'll have more tutorials available early next year, covering more advanced topics like building and processing forms, architecting complex data-structures, adding search-functionality and customizing the backend.
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Coming in October
In follow-up to Tim's post yesterday about the launch of our new site, I thought I'd post a quick note to let you know what we've got planned this month.
How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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