SilverStripe

Powering 4 days of political history

Posted by Sigurd on 25 August 2008

Tens of thousands of people are currently in Denver, Colorado, as part of a major process in the U.S. Presidential Election—the Democratic National Convention.

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15,000 more copies of SilverStripe thanks to PC World.

Posted by Sigurd on 3 July 2008

The July issue of New Zealand PC World includes a full page interview about SilverStripe, and a multiple page tutorial on how to install SilverStripe and do basic website customisation.

The software is included on the cover DVD, so go out and buy a copy from a local retailer! (For those outside of New Zealand: the tutorial will be online at the PC World site in one month.)

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SilverStripe makes Sun news

Posted by Sigurd on 5 May 2008

Sun, who recently purchased MySQL for US $1 billion dollars, were interested to learn more about SilverStripe, and our experience with MySQL and Sun. They were also keen to learn about our involvement with powering the Democratic National Convention website because MySQL powers the database behind it.

A video team covering the MySQL conference interviewed us at the SilverStripe expo hall booth. The footage was completed yesterday and can now be viewed online on the Sun website and youtube:

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SilverStripe on Business Breakfast show

Posted by Sigurd on 9 April 2008

This morning, SilverStripe featured on the New Zealand national television show, Business Breakfast. It summarises how our open source software led to our involvement in this year's U.S. Democratic National Convention.

The two minute piece also mentions two other SilverStripe websites: TheLowDown.co.nz, a collaborative effort with Oktobor and Draft FCB for the Ministry of Health to combat youth depression, and an upcoming project in partnership with Inform and design company The Church to simplify understanding and joining KiwiSaver, New Zealand's main retirement fund.

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SilverStripe main feature of Germany's PHP Magazin

Posted by Sigurd on 14 March 2008

The March edition of Germany's largest PHP Magazine has come out with a several page feature on SilverStripe being the cover story.

It provides an overview of our software supplemented with a developer tutorial on quickly building ready-made interfaces to manage complex relationships, similar to one of our public online tutorials.

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SilverStripe in the news

Posted by Sigurd on 27 October 2007

In a single day we had three major news sites mention SilverStripe!

Matt Asay, Open Source columnist for CNET,  wrote about our strategy on using the BSD software license to ensure our success in his story, How to build a business in Hobbit Land - The SilverStripe Example.

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On ReadWriteWeb, Del.icio.us

Posted by Sigurd on 14 September 2007

Today we were privileged to have Richard McManus from ReadWriteWeb write a great summary about SilverStripe that then put us on the front page of del.icio.us (keep us there!). This produced a deluge of new visitors even greater than the traffic surge from being a finalist in the open source awards (you have remembered to vote for us, right?)

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SilverStripe in Infotech

Posted by Sigurd on 1 August 2007

Open source firm reaps Google benefits

By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER - The Dominion Post | Monday, 30 July 2007

Open source software developer SilverStripe, which was founded by three Wellington College and Scots College graduates straight out of high school in 2000, is bending the ear of Google employees in the US, hoping to promote New Zealand's image as a hub for software development.

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Build a website in 24 hours for national pride

Posted by Sigurd on 28 May 2007

Finally, a trans-tasman sports match that will interest me!

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Featured on opensourcecms.com

Posted by Sigurd on 23 March 2007

I thought I was hearing the download counter going a bit more than usual today...turns out we're now on opensourcecms.com, the world's most popular and relevant website for choosing an open source CMS such as ours! Its currently accounting for about 1 in 5 visits to our website.

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