25 Mar
In what is surely the craziest life decision I have ever made, I am elated to finally announce to the SilverStripe community that I will be moving to New Zealand to start a new job in the next few months.
28 Jan
The Display Logic module allows you to create a very verbose set of logic that, when evaluated, determines whether the field should show or hide. And it $looks->absolutely(“Beautiful”)->thanksTo(“chainable methods”)!
3 Oct
One of the wish-list features I hear a lot in the SilverStripe community is the inclusion of a dashboard view in the SilverStripe CMS. It’s easy to talk about, but when it comes down to actually collecting the requirements for such a view, things get complicated. Dashboards are very project-specific, and they are governed by immutable business logic and picky user preferences. It’s not an easy thing to ask the development team to just roll into the core.
6 Sep
Rebuilding EventCalendar for 3.0 was actually a nourishing and cathartic experience. It felt good to have a reason to clean up and enhance a tool that has offered so much utility to so many users. Along the way, a lot of new features were added — some entirely new ideas, and others improvements on old functionality.
28 Aug
Followers of my Github profile may have noticed the arrival of a new member of the family a few weeks ago. SilverSmith is now open source!
9 Jul
Meta Languages are a rapidly growing trend on the web. This module allows you to integrate them directly into your SilverStripe project without compiling.
9 Jul
Meta languages are becoming vastly more popular in web development, and can really give your code a boost. Languages such as LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript add new features to CSS and JavaScript that aren’t available in their plain state. In fact, the SilverStripe 3 backend was written in SASS to create its rich stylesheets.
3 Jul
Now that SilverStripe 3 allows custom templating of FormField objects, we can bring a CSS framework such as Twitter Bootstrap into SilverStripe. The Bootstrap Forms module takes advantage of one of the greatest features of the framework — its forms and buttons.
3 Jul
The Bootstrap Forms module allows you to implement the Twitter Bootstrap framework into frontend forms in SilverStripe 3.
26 Jun
If you read back a few posts and find my announcement about going freelance, you’ll find that one of my most coveted reasons for making the transition was to have the opportunity to blog more. If you look at the dates between this entry and the last one, I think we can all see how well that worked out. The truth is, I became a freelance developer to have more time in general, to do a lot more things, and I can definitely say after three months of this gig that just the opposite is true. I’ve never had less free time in my life. I have tons of clients who all have tons of needs, and that’s a great problem to have. It’s stressful, overwhelming, and hard work a lot of the time, but in the end, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Kind of like… Parenting. Right?
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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