http://www.silvercart.org/home/ http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silvercart-silverstripe-3-preview/#PageComment_304 Hi John, we have silently distributed alpha versions to some early adopters who are currently implementing online stores with SS3 + SC3. Cheers Ramon Tue, 07 May 2013 09:38:03 +0200 Ramon Kupper http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silvercart-silverstripe-3-preview/#PageComment_304 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silvercart-silverstripe-3-preview/#PageComment_303 After 2 years waiting we would like to see improvement on SS3 + SC. Any news? Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:32:12 +0200 John http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silvercart-silverstripe-3-preview/#PageComment_303 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/a-short-introduction-to-customhtmlform/#PageComment_302 Hi Glen, thanks for your hint. I fixed the link and added the other article. Cheers Ramon Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:39:32 +0200 Ramon Kupper http://www.silvercart.org/blog/a-short-introduction-to-customhtmlform/#PageComment_302 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/a-short-introduction-to-customhtmlform/#PageComment_301 The link to API documentation is not working. Also, some users might like to see your other tutorial, which is here: http://www.silvercart.org/blog/a-short-tutorial-to-the-customhtmlform-module/ Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:55:16 +0200 glen http://www.silvercart.org/blog/a-short-introduction-to-customhtmlform/#PageComment_301 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_300 You are welcome - but i think my area is not attractive for the meeting - to far off anything - would shure attend if you mange to get it in the "Fichtelgebirge". The discussion would last days - not hours. We should not start it in the meeting. I love SilverStripe as the ideal CMS for a wide range of clients - but when it comes to anything special - i choose RoR without hestitation. Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:51:13 +0100 Axel Reinhold http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_300 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_299 Hi Axel, I don't think we'll find a consensus here, because SilverStripe is also more convention than configuration. There's not that much configuration needed, is there? As for DRY, I think it's less of a framework feature and more a question of disciplined programming style. Not sure if we talk about the same things, but why do you think is DRY broken in SilverStripe? I think you are right when it comes to LOC required to achieve something in Ruby. But I am not sure about the measurable impact on overall productivity. Actually writing code is only a part between planning, documenting, testing and deploying - all of them are pretty much language agnostic. Of course more than one technology is used in a modern web project. But having to modify (and some client will ask to modify them sooner or later) independent backends that are written in 2 different programming languages is another thing. I won't go there again. Maybe we should schedule the next SilverStripe Meetup in your area, this discussion could last for hours ;-) Cheers Ramon Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:20:58 +0100 Ramon Kupper http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_299 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_298 you always have even more than "2 utterly different technologies" to deal with in any web project. RoR is a big timesaver for teams, because of much stronger "convention over configuration" and DRY aproach. A main reason for the timesave is also much less code. It makes a big diffences in RoR and in SilverStripe to pull a value out of the database. In RoR its simply "table.column". This was something we really noticed in real project with 3+ developers. In the SilverStripe integration the only thing that is used from SilverStripe is the core CMS FrontEnd or simply the perfect TinyMCE customizion that SIlverStripe delivers. Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:15:29 +0100 Axel Reinhold http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_298 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_297 Hi Axel, +1 for the Mindstorms example, but I wish you had some valid arguments that show how you can be massively more productive with RoR. I am not exactly sure how RoR could boost our productivity to a level that is - from a business perspective - worth investing some 100k € to retrain a development team of 6 people and rewriting all our webshop functionality. Just because it's more sophisticated and pure OO? "RubyOnRails is a powerful framework, but it lacks a nice CMS frontend for the static parts of a website" - not sure if this is still the case, but building a product that is supposed to be heavily customized on top of 2 utterly different technologies (if this is what you suggest) is financial suicide. Been there, done that. We worked with a software that required PHP and Java knowledge, it was 100% pure PITA. Cheers Ramon Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:21:01 +0100 Ramon Kupper http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_297 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_296 grow up and use RubyOnRails (aka Lego Mindstorms in your vocabulary) Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:56:36 +0100 Axel Reinhold http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silverstripe-vs-wordpress/#PageComment_296 http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silvercart-version-1-3-is-released/#PageComment_291 Hi Stuart, we are currently working on SilverCart 2, which will be compatible with SilverStripe 3. Because of the amount of changes required, we'll have to publish a new version of SilverCart. We have pretty much work for clients to do, so we cannot focus on SilverCart 2. We are also still developing new features for SilverCart 1.3. Since SilverStripe 3 is not as stable as we would like it to have as the foundation for an eCommerce website, we are holding back a bit so we don't have to mess around too much with new bugs. Long story short...maybe we'll release a preview version with the most basic modules until the end of this year. If things go well, we have a stable version with some core modules in early (think march / april) 2013. Cheers Ramon Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:53:39 +0200 Ramon Kupper http://www.silvercart.org/blog/silvercart-version-1-3-is-released/#PageComment_291