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Symphony Gigs: Hire and Get Hired

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:01:00 +1000

By czheng

Need to hire a Symphony developer? Looking for a place to practice your Symphoninjutsu? You’re in luck. Announcing @symphonygigs on Twitter.

Looking Forward: Symphony 2.1

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:01:00 +1000

By czheng

In the first post in a new series about Symphony’s ongoing development, the team announces its plans for version 2.1.

A Step in the Right Direction

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:26:00 +1000

By czheng

Symphony’s 2.0.7 branch got off to a bit of a… rocky start. Today we hope to rectify that, announcing the first official 2.0.7 Release Candidate.

A New Year's Resolution: Manage Symphony Better

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:10:00 +1000

By czheng

The team introduces a series of improvements to Symphony’s development and release procedures.

Squeezing more juice from Symphony queries

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:34:00 +1000

By nickdunn

The release of Symphony 2.0.7 saw some performance optimisations that deserve mention beyond a line on the release notes. This post focuses on changes that, in some cases, reduce query consumption by up to 99 percent!

2009 Year-end Round Up

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:36:00 +1000

By Allen

It has certainly been an exciting year for Symphony and the super intelligent, ultra supportive, and drop-dead sexy community. To round the year off on a high note, the team made one last push to get a new Symphony update release out; despite what Santa says, you lot have been nice this year (with an appropriate amount of naughty).

Unmatched Style Video Response

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:38:00 +1000

By Allen

Gene and Jay from unmatchedstyle.com did a website review of the Symphony website (Sweet!) and I’ve made a response video which addresses the concerns pointed out by the awesomely-astute-power-duo.

Welcome to the Future

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:59:00 +1000

By czheng

The new Symphony website is here. Ready to be unboxed and taken for a spin. But before you lose yourself in the depths of its labyrinthine awesomeness, take a moment to read about how it got here, what it has to offer, and what you can do to help whip it into fighting shape.

Symphony 2.0 Lands!

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +1000

By Allen

When the elders of an ancient forgotten tribe played with their rain sticks to see if their year-long drought would be graced with rain this season, they’ve made a misstep in their ritual dance and accidentally foretold that Symphony 2 would arrive today - and it was true.

The future, part III

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:49:00 +1000

By joseph

So here are the final two teaser screenshots of the new site. I can’t tell you how excited we are are: the site goes live on the 30th, two days after my 30th… the perfect present :)

The future, part II

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:27:00 +1000

By Joseph

As promised, here are a couple of additional screenshots of the new site to whet your appetite. I’m posting them without commentary - Craig is far better placed to introduced the site and will be discussing its concepts in detail post launch.

The future

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:32:00 +1000

By Joseph

It’s been a while since a blog was posted here… a lot is going on and an explanation of what we’ve been up to and what we are planning is long overdue. So here goes.

Nominate Symphony for Packt's Open Source CMS Awards

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:44:00 +1000

By czheng

Think your beloved Symphony deserves more recognition? Well, it’s on the list of nominees for Packt Publishing’s 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. Scratch that itch by nominating Symphony for the Overall Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP CMS Award. And don’t forget to spread the word far and wide… it’s a numbers game at this stage: “The five open source Content Management Systems with the most nominations will go through to the final in each category.”

The Shell Extension: Seeing How Far The Rabbit-Hole Goes

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:57:00 +1000

By Alistair

So, some of you would have noticed the Symphony Shell Extension appear today. We’re really excited about this as it will open the door to a whole new area of Symphony development. Writing for the command line.

Introducing Commercial Labs

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:03:00 +1000

By Allen

Last week on our developer podcast, Alistair and I spoke about taking Symphony into the next phase. We mentioned that the system has gone through a five year live-cycle and has been put through its paces on large-scale, high load websites and has come out better, stronger and awesomer with each iteration. The community has also grown with us over the years – in a linear and non-server crashing rate – now able to co-develop Symphony alongside the core team. And now we want to take that next logical step: thinking business.

We start our journey with Symphony compatible hosts.

We're hiring - join the Symphony team!

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:44:00 +1000

By Joseph

Update: Anyone who tried to send us an application recently, can you please resend them. Apologies for the fail. – Allen

Hot on the heels of Craig coming on board, we’re now looking for a junior>mid weight developer to join us as a full time member of our support team. It’s a real job; we’ll give you money for it.

Dev Chat #7

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:35:00 +1000

By czheng

This special episode of developer chat is all about you, the Symphony community. Listen in as Allen and Alistair look back on the history of Symphony and its community, discuss recent and upcoming enhancements to the website, and drop a few enticing tidbits about the team’s future plans.

Symphony Team + 1

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:44:00 +1000

By Allen

I’ll spare the suspense and cut right to the chase: A long long time ago, in a forest far far away…

I kid, I kid.

Here’s the scoop – as of today, Craig Zheng joins our team! When I said we have something planned, this was it. As many of you know, Craig has been developing with Symphony before I was even born. How is that possible you ask? It’s not, but cut my exaggeration by 10 fold and you still get, “a Symphony veteran, whose name is Craig” or something to that effect. What Craig has, something which the rest of the team lacked, was his way with words. And no, Craig didn’t try to woo me – as you trendy kids would say; well, not wittingly at least. Rather, he is a very articulate person and really gets Symphony. Just look at the slab of testimonial with his beautiful words carved on the homepage.

Dev Chat #6

Sun, 03 May 2009 13:06:00 +1000

By Allen

On this episode of developer chat we talk about the new symphony website, version control extension and also the post-apocalyptic world of version 3!

The very special, quite awesome and a wee bit cuddly Rowan Lewis (a.k.a buzzomatic) joins us on Symphony’s very first recording inside a $50,000 AUD sound studio!

Dev Chat #5

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:00:00 +1000

By Allen

On this week’s developer chat: benchmarking, release status and PHP5-only support and a new sneak peek video.