Virtues of the public development model
We are frequently asked (primarily by business people) why SilverStripe is developed with an open development model.
People generally assume we get some form of contribution by outside developers, which is true, but wonder just how useful or worthwhile it is. All we can offer is that a closed-development model would never encourage genius contributions like this...
(In case you wondered about the technical background: currently SilverStripe has a caching mechanism that offers speed improvements. If you make manual changes to your HTML templates, you need to instruct SilverStripe of this, so that it can update cache files. Mark's patch, changeset #61721, fulfills a long-desired new feature to remove all cached files, and not just ones pertaining to an area of the site you're working on.)
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Wahahaa...
That was brilliant !Posted by Fuzz10, 2 years ago
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It was a true story dammit, why won't anyone believe me?
Posted by maetl, 2 years ago
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