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Upload your widgets to us!

We've now added a form to submit your widgets so that they feature on our widgets download page.

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Stop Spam! Read Books!

Recaptcha is a fantastic twist on CAPTCHA, a trick often used to prevent malicious scripts from filling out online forms. Recaptcha asks you for two words; one known by the system, and used to check your biological nature, and the other, unknown, used to digitize a book one word at...

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Wojtek updates themes

Wojtek recently finished updating many of his 15 themes with the sorts of changes that a perfectionist always goes back to do. Read the details and head over to the themes download area!

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FullCodePress winner joins SilverStripe

We're pleased to welcome Mark Rickerby as our most recent full-time developer at SilverStripe. He brings years of experience with many of the country's best web development and design companies, and was on the look-out to apply his skills on a longer-term, bigger software package.

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Aucklanders, learn about SilverStripe!

Are you able to be in Auckland city on Monday 4th February at 7PM and wish to gain an introduction to the SilverStripe web platform, and how our involvement with a Google contest helped around 200 complex tasks get done by highschoolers worldwide?

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23 new SilverStripe themes!

Thanks to a super-human effort by Google Highly Open Participation Contest participants Wojtek, Jeff, and Joao, we have more than doubled the number of SilverStripe themes. We were careful to come up with a diversity of design aesthetics, so check them out and get a SilverStripe website looking the way...

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Interview with Jeff, GHOP student in the Silicon Valley

Completing my interviews with the top three GHOP students in terms of quantity of tasks, is Jeff from San Jose, considered the capital of the Silicon Valley. His work in the contest so far includes website themes, a website, widgets, and translating SilverStripe's interface into Taiwan's dialect of Chinese.

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12 hours left to be a part of Google's highschool contest!

The first phase of Google's highly open participation contest draws to a close at 12:00AM US Pacific Time (08:00 UTC) (21:00 NZST) on January 22, 2008, which is about 12 hours away (See official contest timeline).

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Sun acquires MySQL

In Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog post he talks about why Sun purchased MySQL and what it means for them and the internet industry at large. Sun paid $1,000,000,000 USD for MySQL which had $50,000,000 USD in revenue last year.

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Interview with Wojtek, our prolific Polish GHOP contestant

Shortly after interviewing Simon Welsh I thought it fair to chat with Wojtek Szkutnik (pictured), currently the GHOP 2008 contestant with the largest quantity of challenges successfully completed...  

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