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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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SilverStripe at MySQLConf08

Wow! We've been invited to speak and exhibit at MySQL's annual global conference.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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":

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