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Google Summer of Code 2008

Over the past three years, Google has spent millions of dollars to pay over 1500 talented individuals to work on open source software projects through their Summer of Code program. Google has now officially announced they're repeating it this year, offering a comprehensive overview.

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SilverStripe 2.2.2rc1 released for testing

SilverStripe 2.2.2 release candidate 1 is now available for download. It is a bug-fix release only, and solves several dozen issues.

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50,000 changesets!

Every time someone at SilverStripe writes code, each change is separately recorded as a "changeset". We've now hit 50,000 changesets, demonstrating just how much work has done with the SilverStripe framework. This number includes both work directly on the SilverStripe open source project itself, as well as the private commercial...

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Claiming your Google contest prizes

If you participated in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest over the past few months and successfully completed one of more tasks, you must complete a parental consent form and submit your address details if you want your prizes sent to you! Only two thirds of the contestants have completed...

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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,...

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Google Highschool Contest Winners

Since late November, hundreds of highschool students have been working around the world on about one thousand predetermined challenges set by ten open source software packages as part of Google's inaugral Highly Open Participation contest. Today we're excited to name the individuals who distinguished themselves while working with SilverStripe.

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The Internet Explorer 8 doctype smackdown

Over recent weeks, and at Kiwifoo (pictured), there's been some considerable debate about Microsoft's proposed features of the Internet Explorer 8 release.Microsoft has failed to upgrade a large percentage of their browser users from v6 to v7 because many intranets and web-applications were not designed for standards, and so break...

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How can I help fix SilverStripe bugs?

Becoming a valuable community member of SilverStripe is really easy: just read the How To Contribute section of the community pages, and if you are still unsure, suggest some ideas on the forum and have the community delegate tasks and work with you! There are all sorts of ways to...

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SilverStripe doubles Auckland PHP meetup attendance

This week's Auckland PHP meetup was a real success, with double the normal attendance turning up to learn about SilverStripe.

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Apple iTheme

Joao, another one of our prolific theme builders from the Google highschool contest, recently published a stunning new theme that is free to download, based on the current Apple asthetic.

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