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Many New Zealanders don't vote in local body elections, but with less than two months until the elections, we're hoping a new site we've built for Local Government New Zealand will help increase voter turnout. Elections2010.co.nz makes it easier to participate by providing simple access to information about local candidates,...

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It's always great to see our stuff being used in action, solving real problems. Today, we've got a "real-world" story to tell about Dawn™.

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This article was written from an interview with Sam Minnée(Continued from part two.)The PHP/SilverStripe LevelWhen we were considering what information Dawn needed to gather from the SilverStripe layer, we decided upon two types. The first are errors and warnings generated by PHP.

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On 21 August, SilverStripe will be sponsoring the Engage Your Community unConference, a free learning event hosted by the Wellington Region 2020 Communications Trust (WICT). The free event, styled in the manner of BarCamp, is being held to help community organisations use information technology and the web to engage people...

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This article was written from an interview with Sam Minnée(Continued from part one.)The Webserver LevelApache monitoring in Dawn is done using an Apache plugin called mod_status. (Administrators of Apache will probably be familiar with it.) It gives information about the current Apache processes.

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This article was written from an interview with Sam Minnée

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We're looking for a visual designer or interaction designer to join us here at SilverStripe, and we're going to be expanding our search worldwide.  If you want to live and work in Wellington, New Zealand, home of more coffee shops per square kilometre than New York City, or know someone...

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We designed Dawn not only to measure the status of SilverStripe websites, but also to understand how well they were performing. But how do you define “good” performance?  If a site takes half a second to display a webpage, is that extremely fast, or extremely slow? It’s all relative.  Which...

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While I'm a writer, not a programmer, there are things I've taken from the open source philosophy. And the main one is: be open to good ideas coming from the people around you. And give them a try.

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Anyone can try out our live demo to see for themselves what SilverStripe has to offer, but if you just want a very basic overview of what content editing is like, or you'd like to show a client to get them interested, there's nothing quite like a video screencast.

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