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Webstock 08
What an awesome time we had last week at Webstock 08. For those of you not in New Zealand, Webstock is web-industry conference held here in Wellington every two years. This year the speakers included the likes of Tom Coates, Kelly Goto, Liz Danzico, Peter Morville, Michael Lopp, Kathy Sierra, and New Zealand's own Nat Torkington and Russell Brown, among many others.
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SilverStripe at MySQLConf08
Wow! We've been invited to speak and exhibit at MySQL's annual global conference.
MySQLConf08 is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide, and we're honoured to be an official part of it.
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Agile Barcamp Success
The dust has settled, but we're still buzzing from the Agile Barcamp in Wellington on 7 December. This was a contributor-organised all-day conference held in the gorgeous office space at the top of the Deloitte building in the CBD. At the previous E-government Barcamp one of the recurring topics was agile development and project management methods. Some of us who attended thought it would be a good idea to organise another barcamp focused on agile so we could more deeply explore some topics that were hinted at during the e-govt barcamp.
Some attributes of a barcamp are that it's not commercial (there were some generous sponsors who covered costs of food and t-shirts but attendance was free) nor polished in a traditional conference sense, and that it relies heavily on interaction betweent the presenters and attendees. There is no schedule of talks until the day of the event when people who want to speak put a yellow sticky up on a big sheet of paper, indicating where, when, and what they want to talk about. Sounds like it won't work, right? It actually works surprisingly well. It also gives people who roll up on the day a chance to present. That's a key point.
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Barcamp Wellington
Last Saturday I (Brian) went to the NZ egov barcamp here in Wellington. It was a wonderfully informal event attended by about 80 or so of the New Zealand website creation crowd and government representatives who care about how government websites get built.
I gave a talk on the RFP process, while others spoke about Agile techniques, microformats, identity management, open source issues in government, accessibility, multi-output rendering based on single document source, risk management theory and practice, and more. Here's a mindmap of many of the ideas presented.
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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.
You can see the slides at rails-envy.pdf (924 kb). Feel free to ask questions by commenting below...
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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. We also showcased the work done from the money Google gave us, and provided lessons and ideas for others managing software projects. You can watch the presentation on google video.
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OSCON Birds of a Feather presentation
A small but very interested crowd, including our Summer of Code student Will Scott, turned up to our evening OSCON session to learn about New Zealand, SilverStripe and our progress with Google Summer of Code. You can download a PDF of the presentation (2mb). Since Keynote doesn't export the animations from my presentation, refer below:
- Elijah Lofgren has made SilverStripe way easier to use, adding everything from tooltips to drag-n-drop file manipulation.
- Multiple language support, thanks to Bernat Foj Capell, can now be previewed in Spanish.
- Lakshan Perera released a flickr photo gallery module
- You can crop, rotate and more with images. Thanks Mateusz Ujma!
- Will Scott's worked on Google Adwords and search ranking
- Meg Risen has made good progress on Safari browser support
- You can now download Ofir Picazo's (google) maps module
- Quin Hoxie's built a graphical reporting system
- OpenID support has been added by Markus Lanthaler
- Microsoft and Postgres SQL server support is taking shape, thanks to Philipp Krenn.
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Ending rails envy in PHP5
We're excited to announce that Sam Minnee, SilverStripe's CTO and the architect behind our framework has been invited to speak at the OSCON software conference next week in Portland, on "Ending Rails Envy in PHP5":
PHP5 introduced a number of more flexible language constructs that let us create software in more elegant ways. Sam will show you how he used these in the development of his CMS to create a framework to do things that are normally thought to be beyond the reach of "simple" languages like PHP:
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How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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