We are all very proud to announce the SilverStripe Partner Program! This is a big deal for us for a number of reasons: Through our partners, we are able to provide local development and support services to the SilverStripe community throughout the globe. Our partners are trusted providers who have demonstrated a commitment and ability [...]

Hot on the heels of SilverStripe 2.3.0, we’re working to release an update that resolves some bugs, adds support for six more languages in the CMS, and adds two great new features. We want developers to test this release so we can label it ready for general consumption. Mollom support to combat website spam Mollom [...]

Thank you to those who tested SilverStripe 2.3.1rc1! You identified a few easy-to-fix bugs that we felt were important to solve before issuing the final release of SilverStripe 2.3.1. We’re keen to have developers download silverstripe-2.3.1rc2.tar.gz and confirm that it’s a good release. If no problems are found we’ll mark it as stable this week! [...]

Summer of Code season is back for 2009! We’ve come up with programming challenges as part of our application to Google. If we’re selected by Google to participate, then university students can apply to Google to work on one of the programming challenges suggested below. Applications are open between March 18 and April 3, and [...]

The growth of new SilverStripe installations each month grew substantially over 2008. The graph below shows the rise in people who ticked ‘yes’ to anonymously notifying us when installing SilverStripe. With the German book, recent publicity on Ajaxian, and a number of exciting new releases coming out this year, we expect to see the same [...]

Just days after the book’s launch, the 450-page German SilverStripe book now has a bestseller status on Amazon.de! It is currently near the top of the CMS bestsellers, as well as doing well in its ‘parent’ categories: web design, programming & webdesign, and computing & internet. It is very exciting to see this many people [...]

Last Sunday, a group of local developers came together in Wellington for the monthly SuperHappyDevHouse meeting. Ingo Schommer did a talk on ModelAdmin (see 25 minute recording), and Nicolaas, one of the most prolific SilverStripe-website builders in our community, offered his thoughts on why SilverStripe beats building your own hand-built PHP solution: A few weeks [...]

SilverStripe staff are on some long excursions from New Zealand in coming weeks, so we’re planning to host developer meetings to showcase SilverStripe while we go! Melbourne. Thursday 19th March. 6pm at Trunk (Map). Please RSVP (Facebook.) Stockholm. Thursday 19th March 6pm. Venue TBD. Please RSVP (Facebook.) Vancouver. Thursday 2nd April 6pm. Venue TBD. Please [...]

“SilverStripe – Das umfassende Handbuch” is now in German bookstores and available online to purchase for €39.90. At 450 pages, it provides a more structured and comprehensive set of SilverStripe technical documentation than what is currently available at doc.silverstripe.com, so we strongly encourage German developers to buy the book and become a much more educated, [...]

ModelAdmin is a powerful new feature in SilverStripe 2.3.0 that lets developers build user-friendly web-based interfaces to manage complex, related data. Ingo, one of the developers of the feature, recently spoke at the SuperHappyDevHouse developer event in Wellington. Resources from the talk are now online. He provides an overview of ModelAdmin, explains how it can [...]