Screencasts are difficult to produce. This one took me more than 20 takes. As I worked intensively with the backend I even found a bug: Newly registered anonymous users were...
Today we raised SilverCart from Version 0.9 to 1.0, though, we still call it a release candidate. There are no known unsolved bugs any more.
Silvercart's is based on a CSS Framework called YAML. We once were so fed up with all those different browser bugs that we decided to use a CSS framework.
IMPORTANT: The installation procedure has changed as of SilverCart 1.2. This screencast applies only to SilverCart 1.0 + 1.1.
An ecommerce software that wants to be internationally accepted has to fit the requirements of many tax systems. In Germany we have a VAT rate for food and a VAT...
I am always amazed, when useful things can be created easily and quickly. This is why we chose SilverStripe ;-) Want to read how easy it is to add backend...
Today I want to talk about the customer abstraction of our beloved software module. When we first started we were not sure if we should decorate or extend the member class.
SilverStripe has some great features which take away a lot of work. For example forms are built by defining a form on a controller and then just calling it in...
For our internal projects we use a modified SilverStripe repository (Mercurial FTW!) with all the modules we use in our daily work.
We have decided to host our public facing code repository along with the project wiki and issue tracking on bitbucket.