This set of instructions and code will help you to set up username authentication for your SilverStripe website. Note that the SilverStripe CMS has typically relied on E-Mail authentication, so this could cause problems if developers have assumed email authentication. I've provided a patch and information for issues I've found so far.
These are instructions for setting up bounce handling for SilverStripe, and assumes you use cPanel for site managment. You should be able to mirror these steps accross to other systems also.
Finally, I got around to properly coding my log in widget to use a SilverStripe login form, rather than a hack form that submits to the Security controller.
I'm keen to know what New Zealand APIs are out there. A project I'm working on could benefit from the use of them.
It is good practice to include your website's icons in one image to prevent the client browser making a http request for each icon, which could mean tens or hundreds of requests.
I came up with a hack way to add flv videos to SilverStripe page content.
I recently attended a free seminar presented by Brent Kelly of ZEALD.COM. A lot of the content (for me) wasn't entirely new, but it certainly structured my knowledge and equipped me with a vocabulary to communicate it. Here is a summary of my notes from the seminar:
I wish we had access to the programming learning tools that are coming out these days back when I was in high school. All we got into was a bit of HTML, some and some MS Access-type database creation.
In Jan 2009 the ma.gnolia website lost all of their user data due to a corrupted database. In the following video they share about the loss, and give some useful pointers about doing backup properly.