17 Nov
Got 20 minutes? Check out the latest screencast on SilverSmith, detailing several new features including Translations, the Template Genius, and more. We’ll walk through the construction of a basic site and demonstrate several ways to create a data-driven, dynamic website easily using SilverSmith’s powerful code generation tools. We’ll also discuss plans for a release schedule!
25 Aug
KickAssets is designed to replace AssetAdmin in the CMS. Rather than offer a whole new LeftAndMain controller, asset management is done in a modal window and allows robust UI features to which we’re all accustomed when managing files including:
KickAssets is designed to replace AssetAdmin in the CMS. Rather than offer a whole new LeftAndMain controller, asset management is done in a modal window and allows robust UI features to which we’re all accustomed when managing files including group selection, drag-and-drop, one-click file renaming, and quick search.
11 Aug
I just launched what will eventually be the marketing website for the SilverSmith application. There’s not much there now, but I’m happy to collect your email if you want to receive updates about the SilverSmith project.
21 Jul
It’s been a while since I’ve followed up on my recent announcement of the SilverSmith framework for SilverStripe. Most of that is owed to my time being spend on its development, leaving little left for promotion. I wanted to check in today and get you all up to speed on where we are with this project. (Spoiler alert: it’s still not ready to ship!)
21 Jun
Whenever I’m working on a project that needs some sort of custom form field, I usually do my best to build it in a really modular way so that it can be reused. If it seems especially useful and I can imagine others enjoying it, I roll it into the great dumping ground we call DataObjectManager.
Today we’re welcoming to new members of the dropdown fields family — LiveDropdownField and FilteredDropdownSet.
14 Jun
In these next two posts, we’ll take a break from the SilverSmith stuff and talk about what I’ve been doing in the time I haven’t been working on that major project. For those of you who are anxious, don’t worry — next week’s post will be a status update on SilverSmith, including some slick new UI designs that I’ll be sharing with you.
13 May
I do quite a bit of work on multi-lingual sites, and as a polyglot myself, I love the i18n features of SilverStripe. One thing that comes up quite frequently is that a client wants to edit the translations for static text (i.e. the _t() function calls) on the website. While the Translatable module affords content editors the ability to edit dynamic text in the CMS, static text remains buried in cryptic PHP, left editable only by a PHP developer or a very well-instructed content editor.
5 May
Today I’m writing you from 30,000 feet, somewhere over upstate New York, in all likelihood, comforted by the nourishing memories of my experience in Chicago with the SilverStripe team. I’m a little out of breath, and quite sweaty, to be honest. I milked my stay so long that I made my flight by literally one [...]
I’m very happy today to release a preview of a project I have been working on for several months under the working title “SilverSmith.” SilverSmith is a framework for building SilverStripe sites that provides code, template, and content generation tools using a YAML configuration file. I have been using this tool on several projects and it has saved me volumes of production time by cutting out all of the repetitive tasks involved in building a SilverStripe. I’m really excited to share it with the community and get some feedback.
I’m happy to announce the release of two awesome new modules: Uploadify and Postale.
One question that I find myself answering frequently for users of the EventCalendar module is how to customize the module to handle registrations. This guided tutorial will show you how to make a basic registration form with EventCalendar.
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