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Interview with Sigurd Magnusson of SilverStripe
SilverStripe is a Content Management System (CMS), which was founded in 2000 by Sigurd Magnusson. Since went from being a commercial product for a range of popular open source. We interviewed Mr. Magnusson to get your opinion about the CMS and future:
TB: Can you tell us a little about yourself and your time with SilverStripe?
Sigurd Magnusson SM: I was fascinated by computers from a young child, and I happened to have a grandmother working hard on banking projects. She taught me Basic and C before I was in high school, and allowed me access to the dawn text-only Internet. In 2000, SilverStripe formed with two friends, and have continued to increase staffing at a point where my days doing Administrator and programming systems that have the delegates were in favor of the sale, marketing, project management and leadership positions. During the same period customers also have the increase, we are now running for official government sites and many private entities of interest such as DemConvention.com, the official and high traffic home to the U.S. Democratic National Convention in August.
I am very interested in usability and user experience while being idealistic about the quality of the code is object oriented PHP, semantic HTML and CSS.
CT: What is the vision of SilverStripe before its creation? Is there a plan to focus on a specific target or a there are other areas that you expect the product would very effective?
SM: The software has always been SilverStripe adapted to two very different public areas, and shows very strong when you look at other alternatives. First Coming from a commercial context, which made a friendly administration web clients do not confuse them. We also had another area of the system for us, designers and developers to work. In the same way a car has a driver and mechanic distinct roles, we have ensured our product worked for our clients and us and have continued to use the information to secure the achievement of improvement.
As for what we consider the appropriate size of a website that can be adapted for to SilverStripe, we have always insisted that hundreds or thousands pages. We try to adapt it for large and small sites, but we do not ruin the context of the facility of use or function definition of the main hearing.
CT: What was the motivation behind the change of address within a SilverStripe platform fully open source commercial product in 2007?
SM: We wanted to make a major difference in the world. We were not excited by free and open source offerings and knew that if we did our system available to the public that we could improve the way developers create sites Web, and how most people manage and update their websites. We also wanted to grow our customer base and knew the popularity and proliferation our programs lead to the credibility and attract business in our way. Equally important, we strongly believe that the development of leading open source development faster, better code quality, and strengthening the commitment to market needs. Finally, his great pleasure and satisfaction of knowing a feature new or correction should be appreciated by tens of thousands of people, rather than a dozen customers, among others.
CT: Do you think it was a good thing for the company? If so, why?
SM: We have had positive results, but nothing that surprised or exceeded our expectations. We a company in New Zealand and a few months since it went open source Our international clients have gone from zero to half of our monthly business approach. With external developers and other agencies, we have a rapid growth after both in New Zealand, Europe and America. They are regularly using our software for their clients and we offer much encouragement. Our inclusion Contest Google Summer of Code coding and high school were great surprises, a great help in growth of our awareness and community development. The migration of our product to the open source model has worked very well and I'm happy when I see other companies do the same.
CT: What is your hope for the future direction of the product?
SM: The work we do, like a work of our government and the private sector is increasingly in the depth of indigenous traditional knowledge of developing application software. This poses a problem when the industry is now waiting to websites for compelling visual design, architecture code-compatible with web standards, usability and strong information well-written content, and other worthy ideals. This is ideal for the end user, but it is a total supply challenge, especially when it comes to controlling risks, budgets and deadlines. Most construction sites in 2008 are as complex. For example, we work closely with public relations agencies and advertising in New Zealand and the United States, and it is clear that their customers ask what essentially boils down to software development, with a design and marketing challenges involved in. If the iPhone, Facebook, or complex programming websites, puts them in a difficult situation, they need business and products like ours let do their job.
So we added features that allow web developers to create Web sites in this increasingly complex world. Our automated test infrastructure is a recent example of how we are helping. We are well beyond the point where it can, for example, delete a field in a non-registration form to verify that the rest of your website is fully operational. In any main website, it is unrealistic to have someone check each page of a website after making a change, the tools we created for testing Automated construction *. This increases the reliability and means that their time focuses on improving Web sites.
* Http: / / www.silverstripe.com/new-automated-testing-tools/
CT: Do you feel the transition to Opensource has hurt the company or has helped the company from a financial standpoint?
SM: There have always been millions of sites under construction code open before, so to convert some of these without paying a penny SilverStripe does hurt us financially or major changes. In fact, there are many arguments for be more useful. Tens of thousands of downloads and external developers guarantee to us and to prove its credibility. It is both a marketing and sales channel that employs profitable. We are very grateful for that, since the funds from a percentage of time spent each month on the open source development.
CT: If could change anything about your product or because the offer would be?
SM: At this point I would like to see more regular contributions and more developers. We help expand some functionality and usability of the product of Poland.
We open the doors a year ago with the idea that other developers can provide everything from documents and translations throughout the code base and reflective decision on the product itself. It is a challenge enough time to work for a commercial project, and customers freely to help our community in the forum and the IRC, the development of our software, code review and input. Only at the beginning so I think on the road where we are, however, look forward to the day that the strangers up to our own ability to provide truly high quality additions for the platform.
CT: What is better than SilverStripe open source CMS platforms many others on the market today? What differentiates your product?
SM: First, we focus on making the administration area very easy for content authors, without compromising the features. We work very hard to make it easier to move between pages, add links, resizing images, and all activities commonly performed in the management a website. It's like the tone of cordiality Apple product line really. Our preview video shows that although (www.silverstripe.com / assets / video / cms.html).
Secondly, are a part, like Ruby on Rails, so the concept of mass customization everything is absolutely fundamental to our platform. This means you can build a content site www.epmu.org.nz heavy as a flash site like www.thelowdown.co.nz, a system as complex as www.perweek.co.nz store, or more Web 2.0 mashups for a start-up, as www.metroseeq.com. This is in marked contrast to the alternatives that are very difficult to modify and customize and still stay within the basic package. More specifically, when writing a PHP program, usually no need to change PHP's own language for their job is done. We strive to adopt the same idea with SilverStripe, so you can enjoy our updates.
Third, many systems have recently developed a environmental blog, so that SilverStripe is traditionally based on the concept of a website. There should therefore, for your site and its first page the page 10-20000. blogging platforms are perfect for blogs, but not at more complex architecture of information.
Finally, it provides developers and end users of commercial support.
TB: Can you give us a foretaste of the upcoming features we can expect?
SM: As part of our development objective of simplifying sophisticated websites, we do something called ModelAdmin. As is often the case, has been writing a feature to complete a job commercial, and we are refactoring to release its open source. It will allow developers to define their data model (for example, which has cars, trademarks, models, customers, suppliers, etc) and an intuitive administration interfaces and complex built for them more or less immediately. We find that in projects you need to manage large amounts of data so we have lost much time in building interfaces Council very similar. We want to stop this so that you can concentrate on more fun things.
CT: Thanks for your time, Mr. Magnusson and all the best of your CMS.
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About the Author
Mike has been using CMS systems in one form or another since BBS systems were born. Originally running a very large bbs system in Ontario called The Wanderer’s Tavern.. Mike has since transitioned into a cushy IT job which he adores. On the side though, he just can’t seem to let go of his love for BBS’ and since they are basically extinct.. that has moved on to CMS systems, blog software and wiki platforms. His hope is that this website will provide you with the resources you need to find the right software for your job.. no matter how small or large. He tends to focus on opensource and free software since they more often than not are more than enough to do the job.
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