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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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