Silverstripe 3 – New ORM

People who know me and my clients know I love SilverStripe. Find below the latest from Sam Minnée – CEO SilverStripe.

Sam Minnée, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SilverStripe, has shaped the SilverStripe Suite and is part of its success story as an internationally respected Open Source CMS.

One of the parts of SilverStripe 3 that I was most heavily involved with was …

Top 10 Free Online Storage Apps

Article I found on Freelance Switch:

Cloud computing oppens new opportunities for freelancers. One of them is free online file synchronization and storage. Nowadays you can sync your PC files and manage your documents on the go. Share files with your employer or other freelancers. Make an online backup or roll back to previous file version. All these actions are possible with modern online file sharing applications.

Here are the top ten …

The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette

Here is a wonderful article I found on Smashing Magazine.

Endless layers in Photoshop. Overstuffed image folders. That jQuery plug-in that has 12 files associated with it. Hundreds or thousands of individual pieces go into making a website. No wonder we go off the deep end when we can’t find a closing div — er, section tag. We work with a ridiculously large number of things, and how we organize them (or choose …

Sync Facebook Events and Birthdays to iPhone Calendar (for FREE!)

Between my work life, home life, social life and band… I now look after close to 15 email accounts and I think it’s 5 calendars. When ever I get asked “can you make that date” it takes me some time to find out the answer to that simple question…

The answer (I think), is that I live on my iPhone (much the …

PEW PEW Guitars!

I am a geek for gadgets, so here is one that really got my attention!

What could be more dangerous than a rockstar with a guitar? How about a rock star with a guitar with freakin’ lasers attached to it! Okay maybe these lasers don’t exactly burn through things, but the Laser Pitch Detection Pickup system utilizes lasers mounted on the guitar in order to detect the pitch of a string …

Why I use HostPapa

As any designer or even website owner will tell you, your website is nothing without a good hosting company behind it. Through out my years on the web, I have tried a number of different hosting companies but for the most of it, I ran into the same variety of problems every time:

Prices were too high, Missing features within hosting …

Ramble (of sorts)

So I’m sat here on the train, I have limited 3G signal and nearly all the apps I use, use it! What else is there to do? Blog…
I’ve reached a decision that I feel is worth noting and it’s this: I don’t try hard enough!
As of Right now, I am making a new mid years resolution… Must try harder!
I have an invisible list of goals I am wrote, …

Exchange Public Folder Guidance

I’ve been looking into in integration of SharePoint, Exchange and Public Folders for a client and I won’t lie, there are so many conflicting views on the situation. What I have found is a nice little blog post from The Exchange Team over at Microsoft technet. If your looking into Exchange and Public folders, it may be worth a look:

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The last time we talked about the …

Silverstrip Manual

I often get asked what is my CMS of choice – and nine times out of ten, I will recommend Silverstripe. In this blog article, I offer the ability to browse the “how to, to do” of the backend.
Take a look and read a little more on…