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SilverStripe for Councils
Having recently received quite a bit of interest from New Zealand councils, we attended the ALGIM conference, an annual get-together for council IT managers and staff.
We believe SilverStripe is a fantastic fit for councils, given it is so important to update content continuously for the communities they serve. It helps to have a user-friendly CMS like ours, as it requires little training and allows non-technical staff to be very productive.
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A flurry of meetups
Over recent weeks there's been a flurry of great meetups. These have provided us with a great sense of what people are doing with SilverStripe in London, Germany, and (pictured below) in Wellington.
We're very pleased to learn what people are up to, and what they want. We have taken feedback on board in either our development list or as one of the many new tickets in our bug/feature tracker.
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SilverStripe at MySQLConf08
Wow! We've been invited to speak and exhibit at MySQL's annual global conference.
MySQLConf08 is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide, and we're honoured to be an official part of it.
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Agile Barcamp Success
The dust has settled, but we're still buzzing from the Agile Barcamp in Wellington on 7 December. This was a contributor-organised all-day conference held in the gorgeous office space at the top of the Deloitte building in the CBD. At the previous E-government Barcamp one of the recurring topics was agile development and project management methods. Some of us who attended thought it would be a good idea to organise another barcamp focused on agile so we could more deeply explore some topics that were hinted at during the e-govt barcamp.
Some attributes of a barcamp are that it's not commercial (there were some generous sponsors who covered costs of food and t-shirts but attendance was free) nor polished in a traditional conference sense, and that it relies heavily on interaction betweent the presenters and attendees. There is no schedule of talks until the day of the event when people who want to speak put a yellow sticky up on a big sheet of paper, indicating where, when, and what they want to talk about. Sounds like it won't work, right? It actually works surprisingly well. It also gives people who roll up on the day a chance to present. That's a key point.
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AnEventApart San Francisco: Day Two
Day two of Alistapart's web conference was just as satisfying as the first day, full of a mixture of technical, business, and design inspiration.
Doug Bowman: Design to Scale
In keeping with presentations of the past, Doug Bowman used his humanity-scale metaphors to explain how the audience should challenge their way of working. The only thing different, was that this time, his tenure at Google encouraged him to showcase a company's achivements rather than his own.
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AnEventApart San Francisco Day One
A day into Alistapart's intimate web conference, AnEventApart San Francisco 2007, and its clear where the industry is focusing: with the battle for web standards now entrenched, consideration can go into content (aka copy) strategy, as well enlightening the rest of us busy souls of some interesting coding and design tricks.
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Barcamp Wellington
Last Saturday I (Brian) went to the NZ egov barcamp here in Wellington. It was a wonderfully informal event attended by about 80 or so of the New Zealand website creation crowd and government representatives who care about how government websites get built.
I gave a talk on the RFP process, while others spoke about Agile techniques, microformats, identity management, open source issues in government, accessibility, multi-output rendering based on single document source, risk management theory and practice, and more. Here's a mindmap of many of the ideas presented.
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Attending SuperHappyDevHouse
SuperHappyDevHouse is a day-long, near-monthly chilled gathering of Sillicon Valley's active geeks, and I was at SHDH19 back on the 11th of August.
(Yes, this is to be partly confused with SHDH Aotearoa, the Southern Hemisphere's subsequently spinoff).
Going to SHDH in America means you find yourself hiring a zipcar with Chris Messina and the lead developer at twitter and having an idyllic navigational haemorrhage. You're also on the pulse of unfolding events, and meet heaps of interesting people and learn of curious projects.
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Build a website in 24 hours for national pride
Finally, a trans-tasman sports match that will interest me!
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Wellington Events
It's a great time to be a geek (or around geeks) in Wellington at the moment... with all the lousy winter weather setting in, everyone's putting on events. The Unlimited Potential event, and the new website we created them, went very well last week, and now there is...
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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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