Here you will find various articles about web stuff, from jQuery to CSS to insperational artwork. You may of course find bits and pieces relating to SilverStripe too.

SilverStripe London Feature Talk, Nov 4th

On Nov 4th GPMD will be hosting the first Feature meetup which will include a talk demontration realting to an aspect of SilverStripe.

From the page on meetup.com:

"The format for the UK SilverStripe meetup has changed slightly. From now on we will host a feature meetup every 3 months (this will have a talk / demonstration etc..) each subsequent meetup will remain as an informal gathering of users wishing to have a few drinks.

The November meetup will include a talk from Jamie Neil, Technical Director of GPMD Ltd. Jamie is going to demonstrate the Nesta Creative Credits project and explain a little about how GPMD approached the development.

Take a look at the site and bring along your questions for Jamie.  http://www.creative-c..."

So if any of your are fellow Londoners I look forward to seeing you there!

Submit your own snippets directly to SSBits!

You can now submit your own snippets directly to SSBits! Simply register and then go to the Snippet Submission page where you can create your own post and submit it for publication.

I am hopeful that this will enable you all to use SSbits as a tool to document descoveries you make, whether a new way to do something or a previously unknown feature that you think might help others or even just a simple line of code that was harder to write than it could/should have been. Whatever it is, if you think it would have been helpful to you, post it!

So what are you waiting for, get snippeting! :)

10 Super Useful SilverStripe Documentation Pages

Since I started learning SilverStripe I have come across a number of very useful documentation pages which were not very easy to find (at least not as easy as they could be). So here is a list of 10 official documentation pages which I always find myself referring back to.

jQuery Expanding Menu Plugin

Having looked around for a simple expanding menu and finding nothing I liked, I decided to make my own using the fantastic jQuery javascript framework.

Here is the demo of what I came up with. It pretty much does what it say's on the tin, but hopefully you will find it elegant and easy to implement.

An Example CSS Framework

A CSS framework is a set of pre-prepared style sheets that can be used as a starting point for any project. Using a framework allows you to skip all the tedious parts of getting the basics right and lets you start working on what makes your site different from the beginning.