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3.2 million visits in 4 days

Interest in U.S. Politics set a new traffic record for a SilverStripe-powered website last week. DemConvention.com, the official website for the four day U.S. Democratic Party's National Convention, set some impressive stats:

Virtues of the public development model

We are frequently asked (primarily by business people) why SilverStripe is developed with an open development model.

You got us into the CMS award finals. Now vote!

Thanks to everyone who nominated SilverStripe for "most promising open-source CMS" in the Packtpub CMS Awards. We're excited to say that (like last year), we're one of the finalists!

TUANZ Innovation Awards 2008

Each year, the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) runs a prestigious awards ceremony to recognise outstanding innovation in technology.

Scaling SilverStripe with Caching

When you are dealing with the levels of traffic seen on sites like the Democratic National Convention, it's not enough to dynamically serve every page view.  You need to change your approach.

Powering 4 days of political history
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Help us to gain exposure and money to further our software in the Open Source CMS Awards!

Join our website showcase!

We've created a new RSS feed so you can be a part of the steady stream of new SilverStripe powered websites added each day:

Auckland meetup on Aug 27

Aucklanders interested in SilverStripe are invited to an informal after-work meeting at the Empire Tavern in the CBD (map, directions?) from 6pm on Wednesday the 27th of August.

Up and coming features for developers

Here's a blog post for all you hard-core developers.