SilverStripers Blog

New positions available: PHP web developer

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:22:37 +0530

Do you believe great software can be written in PHP? Do you love to try bleeding edge techonologies as a part of your day job? Then this position is for you. We are looking for a web developer who is fluent with PHP, and have a good understanding on MVC based frameworks.

Here are the specifics of what we're after:

Mandatory

1. Good understanding of OOP and experience

2. Experience in the following areas: CMS development, MVC architecture, Javascript, Ajax, HTML, CSS, Git (or any SCM), OSX / Unix, jQuery, Mobile web development

3. Sound knowledge in ORM

4. Experience in design implementation of system architectures

5. Ability to deliver quality code within tight deadlines

6. Exceptional communication skills

7. Fast learning skills

Desiered

1. Experience is e-commerce based web development

2. PM skills

Note: We’d love to see some of your work before calling for interviews, so if you have any portfolio we’d love to see that. Email us these information along with a covering letter to careers@silverstripers.com. CVs which doesnt have any PHP experience will be rejected.

Playing with SilverStripe 3 Beta

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:11:17 +0530

We've been playing with the new SilverStripe 3 Beta 1 today.

The only trouble we had when installing SS 3 is we neednt have php mbstring installed on our server. This threw some errors when accessing the CMS, but it all went well after installing php-mbstring just a YUM command, yum install php-mbstring.

Few things we love about the new release is that the DataGrid, new Model Admin, the new implementations of the CMS views. The asset admin and the security admin are really great.

So now we are going to test Level5 on SilverStripe 3 Beta 1, and make any model admin changes to the Level5 if needed and down the road we plan to upgrade the current sites which are powered by Level5.

Thank you SilverStripe for the good work! keep it up.

New faces at SilverStripers

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:00:32 +0530

Its a great pleasure that we could fill up the positions which were vacant for sometime, with a two great people with strong abilities.

Tharindu a graduate at the University of Colombo School of Computing joined us as a web developer, he has a good load of knowladge in MVC based php frameworks like Code Igniter, etc and PHP CMSs like Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal. Also he carries a very strong knowladge in HTML 5, CSS 3 and javascript libraries like jQuery etc. Also he is very fluent in UMLs, OOP, and System Architecture, Designs patters.

Dinusha joined as our new admin officer, she is again from the University of Colombo, and does have a science background.

Nimmi is joining us again as a consultant to help us out through out the process.

So it has been really great to have all these new faces, and we look forward to produce terrific codes and produce high quality web sites.

Level5 works with external data APIs

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:18:02 +0530

A good ecommerce solution always needs to have the ability to be able to plug with other ecommerce services, and now we have arrange this to SilverStripe with our ecommerce software Level5.

Leve5 can now communicate to any webservice and sell products which has the inventories with external services, this enables our clients to partner with larger product repos and sell products online. We have build the foundation architecture for this, and a fantastic method to cache the products which we thought will be a good feature to enrich the speed of the level5 sites. We also have enabled a cron job scheduler which can be controlled in the CMS, and this is triggered by SAKE (SS command line tool), so you can really tell your cart when to sync with the external data service. Though we do this, we used realtime comminucations with the server for product purchase process.

We are launching our first website with this feature soon, and once we do we will be talking about it on our blog soon. Stay tuned!

Level5 demo site

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:11:16 +0530

We set up a proper demo site for the Level5 Shopping cart, the e-commerce software we built using SilverStripe. We welcome you all to play with it.

The site is at http://demo.level5app.com, and use admin/password to see the CMS.

We also revamped the CMS, it has a new minimalistic theme and we believe that this will make it super easy for our cliets to use it.

Take a look at some of the screenshots we took.

SilverStripers redesigned

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:23:55 +0530

Welcome to our new ultra slick website. This is a great deal for us to make our site live.

One of the things we wanted to improve with this new design is to give an idea of what we do to the viewers in a flick of time. We've been discussing alot about how to do our website, and how to make us look very professional, also to provide with better user experience. We welcome you to come, look, try out our new website.

If you have any comments or feedback let us know.

Enjoy!

SilverStripe 3.0 Alpha 2 is out

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:02:58 +0530

Today we read a very exciting blog post at SilverStripe blog. The 3.0 alpha 2 is out. This is great news, and it means that the 3.0 is very near now. We are pretty excited to hear this, and cant wait to try it out.

Also we have some thing pretty amazing to show you all quite soon built with SilverStripe, and this new release of SilverStripe might give our project a huge momentum.

Many thanks to SilverStripe for this awesome work they have been doing for the open source software.

Join us as a business development executive

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:25:16 +0530

We are looking for a business development executive. Would you like to join a young set of software engineers and to be a part of our business? If so we would love to hear about you...

We want to add an awesome professional who can help us in marketing and business development. These are the specifics we look for

Mandatory

BA in Business Administration or equalant
Exceptional communication skills
Terrific people skills
Experience in writing business proposals

Desired

Knowledge in Internet and web development
Any previous experience in using a CMS (SilverStripe, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.)

If you think you suite us the best, please drop a copy of your CV to careers@silverstripers.com

Christmas Holidays

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:19:26 +0530

We have reached the end of another great year! Loads of good work, and great achievements. So we are taking our holidays for the christmas. We will be closed from 24th December 2011 to 2nd January 2012. Wish you all merry christmas. See you in 2012...

PS: if you need us urgently during this preriod email hello [at] silverstripers [dot] com

We are in the look for developers

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:16:31 +0530

We SilverStripers are looking to fill up these positions with fantastic developers

Senior Web Developer

Do you have the love to make world class web applications? Do you want to pursue new technologies as a part of your day job ? Then we would love to talk to you.

We are looking to add a fantastic PHP developer for our team. These are the specifics we look for:

Mandatory:

3 + years experience in PHP
Experience in the following areas: CMS development, MVC architecture, Javascript, Ajax, HTML, CSS, Git (or any SCM), OSX / Unix, jQuery, Mobile web development
Sound knowledge in ORM
Experience in design implementation of system architectures
Ability to deliver quality code within tight deadlines
Exceptional communication skills
Fast learning skills
BA and requirements gathering skills

Desired

E-Commerce application development experience
Experience being a part of agile projects
PM skills

Junior Web Developer

We are looking for a junior developer a fresh graduate (most preferred) to get on board. These are the specifics we look for:

Mandatory

Experience in PHP development
Sound knowledge in MVC, ORM, CMS, jQuery, Ajax, HTML, CSS
Exceptional communication skills
Fast learning skills
Have to complete GCE Advanced Level maths stream

We like to see some bits of your work before calling you for interviews, so please include any codes you have done previously. Also if you have any portfolio we love to see that.

With all these if you can email us your CV to careers@silverstripers.com we will get back to you soon

CV s which doesn't have any PHP experience will be rejected.

Another milestone: 2 years old

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:30:12 +0530

It was really nice to see that we just completed another great year in business. So as a whole we are now 2 years in the business, and have done a lot in that. We got new blood in the team, and we expanded to a 4 people team. We got out SilverStripers UK domains and started to establish a branch of ours in the UK to reach more new clients. Also Level5 our full featured shopping cart came out, and became very successful with running two live sites already and a lot more ordered in the pipeline.

Also we'd love to thank our clients for being so nice and helping us in various ways.

Level5 gets multilingual support

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:32:01 +0530

Level5 the shopping cart framework which we built has been going on powering heaps of new websites. We landed a huge project with Level5 which have multilingual content (English, French, German, Spanish). So we had to do some enhancements to the Level5 project, in order to accomodate the multilingual content.

Level5 is not just a shopping cart system, we call it a cart framework, which helps us to build different types of e-commerce systems to our clients. It contains two different methods to manage products of the cart. The cart can have dataobjects as products (which can be edited via the model admin) or it can have sitetree types as products (can be managed via the sitetree). In this case we made the multilingual content possible with making the products dataobjects and pulling out the content to sitetree types, which is liked to a specific product. We wont go much further into details with the technology though.

But one more achievement for us we have enabled i18n to the Level5.

SilverStripe 3 Alpha 1

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:06:46 +0530

SilverStripe announced the release of new SilverStripe 3 Alpha 1 realease today. We have been trying it out here and it has been quite exciting to use the all new user interface and the new CMS.

We think that in the SilverStripe developer roadmap this is one of the most important milestones of SilverStripe. The CMS is super awesome now, and also it has Felipe's great designs implemented. Technologically there are quite a lot of achievements. The CMS and SilverStripe framework (previously sapphire) is split up to enable various kinds of web development needs, which doesnt need a CMS. It contains a whole new rewrite for the template engine, JS, and the ORM. We love to see that SilverStripe now uses jQuery rather than prototype.

To read more about this new release check out the SilverStripe blog.

Thank you SilverStripe and keep up the good work! cant wait to use this on productions...

HTML 5 Databases for our productions

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:06:43 +0530

Last couple of weeks we have been writing a new ad-on feature for one of our clients using HTML 5 databases.

We were to write a system which has to enable to users to redeem tickets even when they dont have any internet facility. So for this we used HTML 5 databases. But it became quite a task that we had to keep the database size under 5MBs, and everything is written in JS. Also we were to deal with minimum 80K rows. Yet we could do a nice job upto now. The module is still on its testing stage but we hope to make it live for our client once we confirm it is working smoothly.

This has become quite some news at the office now, and everyone is looking for HTML 5 databases. Many thanks for every one who worked for this!

Level5 - Shopping cart features

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:55:00 +0530

We blogged about our new product Level5, the SilverStripe based shopping cart system. Now we have been building a number of features which makes Leve5 to standapart from other SilverStripe base e-commerce solutions. To list few things

Level5 supports product variations
Level5 includes a simple to use dashboard
We ship Level5 with an awesome backend skin
It supports product grouping, where you can group a product to one or many categories

When we were engineering Level5 one thing we needed to achieve is the usability, so we didnt want to make the CMS of Level5 to be complicated, and we believe we have done a good job with it. The following is a screenshot of the Level5 app backend, reports section.

Level5 admin dashboard

We believe that Level5 is the most userfriendly, simple to use SilverStripe based Shopping Cart, and we think it can help you with your e-commerce site too.

Introducing Our new Babe Level5

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:02:10 +0530

We are very excited to introduce our new product, Level5. Level5 is a shopping cart framework which is built on top of the SilverStripe framework. We've added a lot of cool features to Level5, and we've kept it very simple to make if fun and easy to manage their shopping cart website. The best thing we see in Leve5 is that it can handle any type of product, for example products with different variations, digital products (paintings, mp3s, photos, e-books etc), and to change things like tax settings, discounts, shipping rates, invoice settings (custom logos, emails adress, telephone number changes,) are quite easy and do not require any programming knowladge.

Some key features of Level5

Sell Product Variations
Set discounts for products, or for the whole set of products
PDF invoices
Ability to customize invoices on fly
Adopt shipping charges
Set tax rates easily for products
Affordable
Reports / Charts generation
Different types of payment gateways, PayPal, WorldPay, DPSCheckout, Cheque / Offline payments

To try out the demo store at http://level5app.com/tour/.

If you have any questions visit the FAQs setion.

Happy to make your site with Level5, checkout our plans & pricing.

SilverStripe in the PacktPub

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:11:07 +0530

SilverStripe is listed in the PackPub Open Source Awards 2011 for the fifth time in a row. We are so proud that our backbone web framework keeps winning many awards. To see a list of SilverStripe awards visit the SilverStripe website. Last year SilverStripe was the first runner-ups for the best open source CMS.

To help SilverStripe vote them on the PacktPub site.

Congradulations guys, keep up the good work!!

Sapphire gets a new name

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:16:51 +0530

With the new SilverStripe 3 release SilverStripe has decided to name the Sapphire framework as SilverStripe framework. Also one of the main goals with SilverStripe 3 is to split Sapphire (SilverStripe Framework) and the CMS so they can work as standalone modules. For more information about this follow the SilverStripe blog post.

Two new developers

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:46:26 +0530

Yesterday we started working with two new developers. We welcome Kavisha and Eranga to our team.

Eranga showed up in the SS code camp and participated in the winning team. Kavisha showed a lot of interest in working with us. Both Kavisha and Eranga are graduates of the University Of Colombo. We welcome them to SilverStripers and looking forward to work on more interesting projects.

To read more about them please check our team page :)

We are looking for a QA Professional

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:32:33 +0530

Interested in joining our team as a QA / QC professional? We are in the look for a good QA professional who can work on our QA process. If you have a good eye, and confident that you can catch any bugs on our products surely you are the one we are looking for. We are looking for these

- Solid knowledge in web standards
- Good knowledge in HTML / CSS / PHP / MySQL
- Past QA / QC experience
- Ability to work under pressure
- Enjoy working with a team of web developers

If you think you suite for this position keep us updated with a copy of your CV. Email your CV to careers@silverstripers.com.