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In 15 seconds you can make SilverStripe more popular and raise money...

All you need to do is type "silverstripe.com" with your name and email to help us win the title of most promising open source CMS. Nominations close at the end of this month, before moving into a voting phase. 

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Summer of Code changing season

The times are getting very exciting! With August coming to an end, so does the main phase of coding by our ten Google Summer of Code superstars. This means its time for debugging, documentation, and making it available to download! The code from the ten projects will be staggered over...

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Ending Rails Envy in PHP5

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.

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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).

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SilverStripe at Silicon Valley NewTech meetup

One of our biggest and most attentive audiences I presented to while in the states was at the Silicon Valley New Tech meetup in the south of San Francisco. A very full room listened to presentations by me and others; see pictures and read  write up by Brian Solis.

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SilverStripe OpenID update

Markus has produced a new movie detailing the culmination of his Summer of Code project. The vision was to simplify the process for new users signing up to a SilverStripe-powered forum. Thanks to OpenID, you can grab all your personal details, putting a sweet death to the prospect of filling...

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Back from the US!

After 5 frantic weeks of conferences, presentations, meetings, and general sight-seeing adventure, I'm back at my usual desk in Wellington, so you can expect a hive of activity back here at silverstripe.com detailing all the great stuff Sam and I got up to...

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Google Tech Talk

Yesterday we were invited to do a tech talk at Google as part of their open source speaker series. I gave an overview of New Zealand and the software that has come from our country, naturally including SilverStripe.

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Google Tour

Our visit to the Google office in Mountain View was certainly like being a small boy in a toystore. Lots of fun! Our fantastic tour guide Leslie Hawthorne showed us...

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Beta e-commerce module

We are pleased to announce the beta version of our free, open source e-commerce module!

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