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O'Reilly Ruby Blog sees the light

Posted by Sigurd on 25 September 2007

O'Reilly blogger Derek Sivers yesterday wrote an opinion post, and in doing so, reiterated the architectural decisions we made in SilverStripe over a year ago.

Ruby on Rails has been hyped as a programming language for a few years, and while this is laudable for creating a critical mass of programs, programmers, tools, and book sales, I'm glad to see that the environment has matured such that people are:

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Ending Rails Envy in PHP5

Posted by Sigurd on 29 August 2007

Sam's presentation at OSCON, last month's major software conference held in Portland, Oregon, went very well. There are several language features hailed in Rails but little-utilised in PHP5, and Sam did well to explain them.

You can see the slides at rails-envy.pdf (924 kb). Feel free to ask questions by commenting below...

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Ending rails envy in PHP5

Posted by Sigurd on 19 July 2007

We're excited to announce that Sam Minnee, SilverStripe's CTO and the architect behind our framework has been invited to speak at the OSCON software conference next week in Portland, on "Ending Rails Envy in PHP5":

PHP5 introduced a number of more flexible language constructs that let us create software in more elegant ways. Sam will show you how he used these in the development of his CMS to create a framework to do things that are normally thought to be beyond the reach of "simple" languages like PHP:

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SilverStripe supports GoPHP5!

Posted by Sigurd on 9 July 2007

A few days ago a campaign, GoPHP5, launched to encourage software producers and webhosting companies using the widely-used PHP language to upgrade from version 4 to 5. Version 5 is several years old, works great, but the industry has been lazy to upgrade.

I think GoPHP5 is great, because we've been tirelessly justifying why we cannot support PHP4 and explaining the virtues of PHP5 since before we released... quite simply: supporting PHP4 is equivilent to the extra work, hassle and restrictions developers used to face supporting archaic browsers like Netscape4. The world sighed relief when Netscape4 support was dropped, and it will again with PHP4.

There is more than just simply upgrading, however. In the same way a webpage can be "standards compliant" (valid HTML and CSS), but still be a real mess of tags and thus altogether miss the spirit of web standards, for PHP5-only code to be good, it requires the programmer to architect it in a thoughtful manner, which broadly speaking means diligent use of its new Object model.

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SilverStripe tech presentation today

Posted by Sigurd on 4 April 2007

A reminder that the Wellington PHP user group has invited SilverStripe to host and present a technical overview of our content management system and framework after work today (Wednesday). PHP Developers all welcome to come...Details and RSVP here.

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SilverStripe to host PHP meetup

Posted by Sigurd on 22 March 2007

Thanks to discussions on the New Zealand PHP Mailing List, and being included in Google Summer of Code, Neil Bertram who runs the PHP user group has invited SilverStripe to host and present the next Wellington PHP Meet Up. This will cover:

  • A demonstration of a running SilverStripe-powered website
  • A lighting-quick technical explanation of how to build your websites (using object oriented PHP5 code)
  • Answering all your questions through showing live websites and source-code
  • Our successful experience of being an open source project.

This will be after work at SilverStripe offices on Wednesday 4 April. We would love to see you. RSVP here.

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