Pleasant surprise today as I was browsing through my emails. We are now in the Silverstripe Developer Network
I’m glad because even though we built probably around 10 websites already with Silverstripe, NDA agreements doesn’t allow us to “publish” or market those projects, so it’s a bit strange to tell we are Silverstripe experts but we can’t show you why!
Actually we can show you, but not in public. You’ll have to contact us for this ; )
A big thank you to the Silverstripe guys for being understanding.
Here is our entry: http://www.silverstripe.org/silverstripe-developer-network/?BrowseByCountry=Thailand
In the previous post I mentioned bigger projects. Well this is one of them.
We won the complete re-design and development of a video/audio sharing platform for a large organization in Paris, France. Basically members (mostly public radios and television stations throughout the world) can order, upload and share television and radio programs through this platform.
The challenge is (because it’s still in progress) to build everything from scratch using Zend, namely:
rebuilt all the databases- create a CMS for content, news, events
- create a catalog and shopping cart, with different type of “products”
- create a membership module with full capabilities (my orders, my uploads, etc…)
- create a back-end to manage all of this
And the last part but still crucial, create a user-friendly website which looks good. Thanks to our regular art director, Dan Mireault, I think we’ve got something pretty nice going on. Here’s a preview of the catalog page. What do you think?
The website is scheduled to be launch in July, with a mini site before that for the World Cup in South Africa.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, it’s the same old boring excuse….too busy working
To keep you up to date, in the last few months we hired 2 more people, one to help our front end team (html/jscript/design) and another one to boost our Zend framework capabilities. And we’re happy to tell you it makes a difference. We can take more projects now! (is it really a good thing, i don’t know….haha)
On top of this, we’ve made a big leap in terms of projects, taking bigger and more complex jobs. I’ll tell you more about one of them in the next post, but let’s just say our choice of platforms is really paying off a year later. The decision to go with Silverstripe for our CMS, Magento for e-commerce and Zend for all custom development looks like a good choice now.
Finally, the other exciting thing for us is the diversity of clients we signed, not only in regards to industry but also geography. We now have clients in Paris France, Sydney Australia and New York City. Our Canadian clients still provide the majority of projects but it is shifting slowly and surely to a more diverse and global portfolio. Which is something always fun no? It would be nice to have a “local” Asian client too. We’ve been trying but the stars have not been aligned yet
Next step? Find a new office. 8 Months later our “new” one is already too small. After the move we think we will have a good balance now (projects, people, revenues, enjoy what we do) so our objective will be to keep it going like this for a while.
That’s what we said 8 months ago.
Rock and roll!
